On Mar 24, 10:32=A0pm, Palindrome wrote:
> Steve Walker wrote:
> > Palindrome wrote:
> >> (not quite so) Fat Sam wrote:
> >>> Mrcheerful wrote:
> >>>> What I would like is a GPS which would tell me thespeedlimiton
> >>>> any given stretch of road in real time so that if I miss the
> >>>> introductory 30mph signs, the screen would tell me I am in a 30
> >>>> zone. =A0Does such an instrument exist?
>
> >>> Most GPS systems will do this.
> >>> Mine alerts me to let me know when I'm approaching aspeedcamera,
> >>> and tells me whichspeedI should be going at...That's on a cheap
> >>> =A370 satnav...The cheapest on the market...
> >>> I've seen ones costing not much more than =A3100 that will tell you
> >>> thespeedlimitof the road you're on in real-time...And others
> >>> which also tell you watspeedyou're doing for comparison....
>
> >> I hadn't realised that they did that now. I asked about this several
> >> years ago and, whilst in car GPS devices would show thespeedlimiton
> >> approaching a fixedspeedtrap, they wouldn't tell you thespeedlimit
> >> elsewhere.
>
> >> I'll get one tomorrow!
>
> > Have a snoop roundwww.pocketgpsworld.comSue, there's practically nothing=
> > they can't do now.
>
> All I want is something that shows the legallimitfor the road that I
> am on. Any road that I am on.
>
> The problem is the combination of a strange city, darkness and one of
> those wide urban dual carriageways that could have almost anyspeedlimit- a=
nd often does, in different but largely apparently identical
> sections. Add little or no traffic..then a bored traffic officer in an
> unmarked car.
>
> And, quite honestly, I would much rather devote my energies to trying to
> spot road hazards. Notspeedsigns.
>
The two may be related. The closest I have ever come to having an
accident when I was driving on a road with a 20mph limit. But I was
young and foolhardy and I thought I could do 24-25mph and I almost
skidded off in a tight left turn. |