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I would be really surprised if I was flashed at doing less than 85 mph
on the motorway. I just go along with the flow and it's generally 80
to 85. As you said, it's possible the Gatso's are set up to not run
out of film. I do remember right after the petrol crisis, there were a
lot of cars barrelling at over 100 mph because they knew all the
Gatso's were out of film!

Brimstone wrote:

[...traffic at 90-95mph...]

It's common to see cars travelling at that speed all over the country.

....endangering nothing but respect for the law.



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Trade Oil in €

Brimstone wrote:

Which is simply because US cars are slower.

I drive a 98 Honda Civic with a 1.2 liter engine. And I live at 5000
feet, so due to the altitude the engine only makes about 80-85% of the
power it'd make a sea level. And the car will easily go 95 here.

I'm guessing 99% (or more) of the cars sold in the U.S. today will do
100mph.

Rich

Brimstone ) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

(BTW - it was a bit of gentle micky taking so that seem like a double
WOOSH.

May I refer the honourable gentleman to the time of a Friday night it was
posted, and the state of the wine bottle next to my laptop?

Adrian wrote:
Brimstone ) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

(BTW - it was a bit of gentle micky taking so that seem like a double
WOOSH.

May I refer the honourable gentleman to the time of a Friday night it
was posted, and

the state of the wine bottle next to my laptop?

Not full?

Brimstone ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying :

the state of the wine bottle next to my laptop?

Not full?

In the recycling box now.

fbloogyudsr wrote:

Hard to believe that doing 85 in AZ (or MT, many places in CA, and
other western states) gets you arrested. 85-90 is the normal/85%
speed on rural interstates there. I've driven 85 from Phoenix to
Flagstaff on I15, 85-90 on I5 in the San Joaquin valley; the only
thing the cops touch are the truckers.


I used to regularly drive all over the US at 65-80mph just keeping up
with the traffic when the national limit was still 55mph. On the
Boston-NY run it was like lions and a herd of wilderbeest. You would be
in a big pack of traffic rolling at 85mph and suddenly in the middle of
it a set of blue light would start flashing and one of the pack would be
pulled over while the rest thundered on unslowed.

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Tony

"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought" Lord
Peter Wimsey (Dorothy L. Sayers)

Wiggums wrote:

I am in Orange County where the posted limit is 65, but everybody does
75 to 80. Police enforcement here is noticeably lower than that of the
UK. On UK motorways, I have gone past speed cameras at 15 mph above
the limit, and there was no flash from the Gatso cameras. On the M4 to
London, I can say with certainty it's well less than half of the cars
complying with the limit and roughly 2 percent exceeding 90, probably
to beat the queue (traffic). When the M4 turns into A4, compliance
increases. It seems cameras on the A4 are more trigger-happy.


There are three variants on the state of Gatsos. Some are switched off,
some are active with no film and some are fully active. They move them
round and rely on the fact motorists do not know which is which to make
them all effective. On the M25 roadworks people are over compliant at
the camera points and not elsewhere, traffic allowing.

--
Tony

"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought" Lord
Peter Wimsey (Dorothy L. Sayers)

In article .com,
Wiggums wrote:

between 80 to 90 mph. I have seen many cars hitting 100 mph in the
U.K. especially at nights. You will never see that anywhere in the
United States.

ROTFL.
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There's no such thing as a free lunch, but certain accounting practices can
result in a fully-depreciated one.

Adrian wrote:

Next cheapest in the US Ford range is the soddin' 4.0 Mustang, then
3.0 v6 Taurus - which is *HYOOOOGE* by UK standards.

I refer the Hon. Gentleman to exhibit A - this being the V6 Fnord Mousestang
I rented in Leftpondia last year. 0-60 eventually, Vmax about 110
indicated.

They don't do "efficiciemcy" Over There.

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Dave Larrington - http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/
A *National* Socialist Government did you say, Mr. Chaplin?