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I drove from Stoke-on-Trent to South Wales a couple of weeks back and there are still average speed cameras plotted through from the M6 down to Birmingham, the

I drove from Stoke-on-Trent to South Wales a couple of weeks back and there are still average speed cameras plotted through from the M6 down to Birmingham, the M5 and the M4 - essentially all the way. I'm all for them if there are roadworks, but the problem is, is that for 90% of it, there is no damned reason for them! On top of that, it's hard to stay aware of what speed you should be doing when it goes through: 70, 50, 30, 40, 70, 60, 50, 30, 50 (no lies) every few miles. It's a bloody farce.

JupiterMoon 11y ago
> I'm all for them if there are roadworks, but the problem is, is that for 90% of it, there is no damned reason for them! From my observations (which are limited and unsystematic) some of these 'roadworks' are not roadworks but an excuse to put out an average speed check. > On top of that, it's hard to stay aware of what speed you should be doing when it goes through: 70, 50, 30, 40, 70, 60, 50, 30, 50 (no lies) every few miles. It's a bloody farce. This could easily be technologically solved. Why can't the highways agency publish these speedlimits in real time (with a sensible API) and allow our GPS devices (or even our cruise control) to tell us the speed limit.
- andygates 11y ago
  There are already big clear signs that the attentive meatbag driving module is trained to use to adjust its driving speed appropriately.
  - jbrooksuk 11y ago
    Which is fine and dandy until you go through 10 speed limits in 5 minutes.
  - JupiterMoon 11y ago
    Actually this "attentive meatbag driving module" would rather focus on actually important stuff like other cars and potentially whatever else (debris, people, animals etc) rather than checking the speedo and remembering what the last arbitrary speed limit sign said at all times. I'm not saying speed limits aren't important. I basically never speed. However, there are things one could better use one's attention on whilst driving.

JupiterMoon 11y ago

> I'm all for them if there are roadworks, but the problem is, is that for 90% of it, there is no damned reason for them! From my observations (which are limited and unsystematic) some of these 'roadworks' are not roadworks but an excuse to put out an average speed check. > On top of that, it's hard to stay aware of what speed you should be doing when it goes through: 70, 50, 30, 40, 70, 60, 50, 30, 50 (no lies) every few miles. It's a bloody farce. This could easily be technologically solved. Why can't the highways agency publish these speedlimits in real time (with a sensible API) and allow our GPS devices (or even our cruise control) to tell us the speed limit.

andygates 11y ago
There are already big clear signs that the attentive meatbag driving module is trained to use to adjust its driving speed appropriately.
- jbrooksuk 11y ago
  Which is fine and dandy until you go through 10 speed limits in 5 minutes.
- JupiterMoon 11y ago
  Actually this "attentive meatbag driving module" would rather focus on actually important stuff like other cars and potentially whatever else (debris, people, animals etc) rather than checking the speedo and remembering what the last arbitrary speed limit sign said at all times. I'm not saying speed limits aren't important. I basically never speed. However, there are things one could better use one's attention on whilst driving.