Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Speed Camara and then a Camara Van?

[Jools]

Originally posted by Monty

I do Andy I do. Always stick to the 30's, 40's and 50's just like I have been trained to do using 'Roadcraft' then ride/drive the road. But as you know the posted limit is often set for political reasons rather than good road safety ones and is often way under a sensible speed for a particular piece of road-and sometimes way over it is has to be said...............but cameras only police the posted limit and will usually be sited where the posted limit is well below the roads 'natural' limit-IMHO.

John

If they only police the 'way over' the natural speed limit spots doesn't that go against the fixed camera guidelines? Why is it different for mobiles?

Something about a road having a speed that feels natural and safe to most people to drive at a certain speed so it has a natural average speed. Like everything else if you plot peoples speed against this average on a graph you'll range from a few dodderers at the low end and a few nutters at the high end, with most people somewhere between the extremes. You get a curve that looks like a bell anyway. Apparently the fewest accidents happen to people who drive at 20% above the normal distribution of this curve.