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Mark SCHUHMACHER (mws@hercules.iassf.easams.com.au) wrote:
> 
> Personally I love the speed sensors between Sydney and Wollongong 
> that measure the speed of your car and if it's over the limit by a 
> significant amount tells you to slow down on a bill board type 
> display over the road. Now as its not empowered to book you some people 
> try to see what they can clock ..... and it's about the the unmarked 
> police car that's been watching from several cars back comes up behind 
> and nabs them.
> 

We have a speed check on the Westgate freeway coming into the city. I have
no idea if it is screwed or my car is but it disagrees with my speedo by
5km/h at least. Also, it only goes to 98. So anybody sitting at the speed
limit of 100km/h with a faulty speedo gets no indication what their speed
is. All they know is that their actual speed is below 90 or above 98. Their
speedo could be completely broken and they could be doing 110.

> Personally I think it's effective as on long trips your speed tends 
> to creep up and unless you're always looking at your speedo you're at risk.
> The only speedig fine I've been issued was in this vein, I was doing 120 on 
> the Syd/Newcastle freeway and... after an hour at this speed, took an exit and
> just let the car bleed off speed without hitting the brakes, three guesses
> what was just off the exit ramp :-( 

Only times a car I have been in has been caught (me, my dad, and a friend
driving my car on a long trip) was in a country town, doing 80 ish in a 60
zone. I now have cruise control and set it at 62 or so (it won't take at 60
:-(  but my speedo is probably out by 5 anyway, see above :-) and don't get
fines anymore.
> >
> >I personally believe no one has the right to speed for anything other
> >than a real emergency wherein Police help to speed to a destination
> >can be called.
> 
> In an "emergency" I doubt you'd have the time to organise it :-(

It won't work. Somebody here called into talkback radio once describing how
he was speeding to get someone to hospital who was bleeding all over the
car. The police stopped him, he explained, they didn't care and gave him a
20 minute lecture on speeding and still refused to escort him.

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[ Kevin Lentin                   |      The Mighty Carlton Blues      | ]
[ K.Lentin@cs.monash.edu.au      |          1995 AFL Premiers         | ]
[ Macintrash: 'Just say NO!'     |CARLTON 21-15-141 d geelong 11-14-80| ]
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