Why average speed cameras are pointless

On 07/09/2017 20:44, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Thu, 07 Sep 2017 10:19:17 +0100, Nick Finnigan wrote:

On 06/09/2017 11:09, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Wed, 06 Sep 2017 10:15:53 +0100, Nick Finnigan wrote:

On 04/09/2017 09:47, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Mon, 04 Sep 2017 09:13:43 +0100, soup
wrote:

On 04/09/2017 01:04, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
60mph limit, SPECS cameras all the way along the road.
But there's laybys....
Stop in a layby, then you can drive faster for the rest of that camera
gap.
Easy calculation, you want to drive 4/3 of the speed (eg. 80mph in a
60mph limit).
You must therefore drive for 3/4 (flip the fraction over) of the time
(eg stop for 5 minutes, then drive for 15 minutes).

Why ?

Because Mr law abiding citizen has to drive for 4 hours.
I drive for 3 hours and get a 1 hour rest for eating sandwiches, taking a
nap etc.
And I get the fun of overtaking everyone and making them wonder why
I'm not
getting fined.

* So that's working for you then, being clever ?

Yes.

Oh and driving at 60mph is boring, tedious, sleep inducing, and therefore
dangerous.

* What is this 240 mile stretch of road with specs and no HGVs ?

The numbers were just examples.

* What is the longest stretch of single carriageway between paired SPECs
camera that you have observed ?

I didn't measure it, but it was quite a long way.* They're further apart on
non-motorways.

Where was it ?

On 26/09/2017 21:05, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 20:54:07 +0100, Nick Finnigan wrote:

On 07/09/2017 20:44, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Thu, 07 Sep 2017 10:19:17 +0100, Nick Finnigan wrote:

On 06/09/2017 11:09, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Wed, 06 Sep 2017 10:15:53 +0100, Nick Finnigan
wrote:

On 04/09/2017 09:47, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Mon, 04 Sep 2017 09:13:43 +0100, soup
wrote:

On 04/09/2017 01:04, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
60mph limit, SPECS cameras all the way along the road.
But there's laybys....
Stop in a layby, then you can drive faster for the rest of that
camera
gap.
Easy calculation, you want to drive 4/3 of the speed (eg. 80mph in a
60mph limit).
You must therefore drive for 3/4 (flip the fraction over) of the time
(eg stop for 5 minutes, then drive for 15 minutes).

Why ?

Because Mr law abiding citizen has to drive for 4 hours.
I drive for 3 hours and get a 1 hour rest for eating sandwiches,
taking a
nap etc.
And I get the fun of overtaking everyone and making them wonder why
I'm not
getting fined.

* So that's working for you then, being clever ?

Yes.

Oh and driving at 60mph is boring, tedious, sleep inducing, and
therefore
dangerous.

* What is this 240 mile stretch of road with specs and no HGVs ?

The numbers were just examples.

* What is the longest stretch of single carriageway between paired SPECs
camera that you have observed ?

I didn't measure it, but it was quite a long way.* They're further apart on
non-motorways.

* Where was it ?

The A9.

There are supposed to be 5 to 7 km apart, so you get to spend 1 minute at
a time taking a nap.