Cars & Transportation Vent about all things traffic
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I have my foot in plaster and can't put weight on it for 5 to 8 weeks. Apparently it takes longer than that to get a sticker.
Lucky i have a "knee scooter" which makes flatness more important than distance.
Lucky i have a "knee scooter" which makes flatness more important than distance.
VainGlorious
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Where does everyone stand on alerting oncoming motorists to a mobile speed camera via a flash of the high beams?
Is it a road and safety hazard? I mean, it is if you’re blinded by the light (tune)
Is it common courtesy to help people slow the **** down?
Should people not high beam so that the repeat offenders who speed cop fines?
I’ve always been impartial but am genuinely interested to hear the thoughts of others.
I got high beamed the other night and it was a lovely gesture and all, but I shit bricks and nearly ran off the road.
Is it a road and safety hazard? I mean, it is if you’re blinded by the light (tune)
Is it common courtesy to help people slow the **** down?
Should people not high beam so that the repeat offenders who speed cop fines?
I’ve always been impartial but am genuinely interested to hear the thoughts of others.
I got high beamed the other night and it was a lovely gesture and all, but I shit bricks and nearly ran off the road.
At night it might be hard to read if they using their high beams I see alot of cars at night using high beams.
I think there no reason but that's just me.
People speed.
There was a 80 sign I slowed down from 110.
There was a speed camera sticking out like dogs nuts .
Cars flew bye like no care in the world .
But some cars go slow on the 100\110 highway.
Then go over in the 50 and 60 K area.
But we did get high beamed during the day going up a widy road a car broke down poor bloke.
Right on a bend too.
Some high beams are super bright.
My daughter came home all flustered on thursday , she'd been doing 80, ( in the 80 ) while crossing a freeway bridge on dandenong road ( princes highway ), had a car behind her and another beside her ( 2 lanes across the bridge ), there's a turning lane on the bridge for people who want to turn right onto the freeway.
At the last possible moment some guy stopped in the turning lane changed his mind about going on the freeway and pulled into the main lane, right in front of my daughter.
She swerves , knowing there is a guy next to her, but the car in front is only going around 5km/h no way to stop. Lesser of two evils.
The good news....
The guy next to her saw her coming, and pulled over hard to the left , hugging the concrete barrier, and the two of them managed to fit in one lane without touching.
The guy behind her turned on his hidden blue lights and pulled over the dumb bastard who is trying to kill people.
One day later, i'm turning right, in the rightmost of two turning lanes. The guy next to me did just what my daughter described. Changed his mind about turning and decided to pull out of the turning lane, right in front of a car going 80. Car coming through locked up his brakes, and dumb driver realised he'd stuffed up and pulled to the right still in the intersection.
Absolute Loony season on roads right now.
At the last possible moment some guy stopped in the turning lane changed his mind about going on the freeway and pulled into the main lane, right in front of my daughter.
She swerves , knowing there is a guy next to her, but the car in front is only going around 5km/h no way to stop. Lesser of two evils.
The good news....
The guy next to her saw her coming, and pulled over hard to the left , hugging the concrete barrier, and the two of them managed to fit in one lane without touching.
The guy behind her turned on his hidden blue lights and pulled over the dumb bastard who is trying to kill people.
One day later, i'm turning right, in the rightmost of two turning lanes. The guy next to me did just what my daughter described. Changed his mind about turning and decided to pull out of the turning lane, right in front of a car going 80. Car coming through locked up his brakes, and dumb driver realised he'd stuffed up and pulled to the right still in the intersection.
Absolute Loony season on roads right now.
Some of the driving we've seen on our road trip.
Surprised we see a crash.
Surprised we see a crash.
I do it, I am not against it.
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It's illegal isn't it? In NSW it certainly is.
But we have to have warnings on the side of the road before a mobile speed camera so if you still get done, you deserve it.
Definitely in favour and usually do it when I see them.
Always amazed people get done by some of them given how obvious they usually stand out. We have one locally that is at the top of a hill so usually have one eye ahead when coming up knowing whether to speed up or slow down.
But, I got done by the fixed camera the other day, wasn’t paying attention and forgot it was a 40 zone. Had slowed to 50 and it flashed and I went ****, it’s 40, not 50…
Such revenue raising being a 40 zone on the main highway, but in the time I’ve lived here it’s probably only the second or third time I’ve ever been through those lights without being stopped. The whole section of 6-7 lights are designed to stop you at every single one…
Only hope is the cops are supposed to be refusing to issue speeding fines so might just get away with it.
VainGlorious
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Yeah we don’t get a warning sign for mobile speed cameras in Vic.
At least I’ve never seen one.
Yeah that sucks.
I’ve only been done once in decades and it was one of those fixed red light/speed cameras that is set up in a school zone which goes from 70km/h down to 40km/h during allocated times - 8am-9:30am and 2:30-4pm
I was going 43km/h from a standstill through the light at about 2:32pm and I just spaced. Literally rolled through the intersection.
That’ll learn me.
Not fond of the shady revenue raising crap but I am in agreement with slowing traffic down around school zones.
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Last time i got done, i turned into the street at a roundabout, accelerated, realised i'd gone a bit overspeed and slowed back down to 50. Got done for doing 58 or something like that.
More important to stare at the speedo than look at the traffic and road.
I seen them .
There's some fixxed speed camera coming home on the Hume.
Seen quiet a few cars going over the limit no care in the world.
Seen quiet a few cars going over the limit no care in the world.
Flash others when the ****ers hide or sit in overtaking lanes. Don't flash through built up areas, especially schools.
I’m lucky that when I head home I only go passed one of them so don’t have to worry about the point to point and just slow down as I pass it.
They also operate as regular speed cameras and can get you if speeding when you pass them.
I'm unsure where but one area up on the Hume was 80 for ages.
No one gave a fook expect me I felt a bit silly everyone passing me.
Bloke in my cabin was from the states .from my time at cradle mountain.
So asked him about how you go driving on the other side of the road etc.
Then got talking .
He said the police have to stop you and book you for speeding.
No set/fixed/mobile cameras like we have here.
If they don't see cops they pretty much speed.
I guess that was he's POV.
So asked him about how you go driving on the other side of the road etc.
Then got talking .
He said the police have to stop you and book you for speeding.
No set/fixed/mobile cameras like we have here.
If they don't see cops they pretty much speed.
I guess that was he's POV.
Today's loony was stopped at a double intersection, ( two lots of lights with cars in between to cross a freeway ).
When the far lights turned red , even though the lights we were at were still red, he took off , much to the shock of the guy who nearly turned in front of him with a green turning light.
Two other sheep nearly went with him, but realised and stopped.
When the far lights turned red , even though the lights we were at were still red, he took off , much to the shock of the guy who nearly turned in front of him with a green turning light.
Two other sheep nearly went with him, but realised and stopped.
I had someone stop right in front of me at a intersection with green lights .
They forgot what they were doing and wanted to turn left.. numptys.
One truck trailer had no lights on ,on our way up to NSW.
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Dogs_R_Us
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I’ve done something like that
Yep. This.
Simply untrue.
My in laws are in Seymour so we go back regularly and I usually do more than 110 and have never been pinged.
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As north jr finished school almost two weeks ago, am enjoying a lack of traffic
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I’ll always alert locals in low speed areas but I won’t alert city drivers heading towards the country because a lot of them drive like idiots when they get on the open road and deserve to be fined
They are dangerous!
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