HGV's carry an awful lot more weight around with them and simple physics would show that even a 10% increase in speed would dramatically increase the stopping distance. Ok, the faster u go in a car the stopping distance inreases but no-where near to the same extent as HGV's.
Maybe this is why HGV;s have limiters ( as well as the possibilty of the trailer fish tailing at high speeds like u see speeding caravaners?)
Steve
Of course not.
Awkward one this, but Conor is perfectly entitled "to protect someone that could well be a very dangerous driver" because for all we know they could be the complete opposite and just the victim of malicious slander. The driver in question cannot put forward his own account and as you say:
The OP may well have a case, but that's upto him to put it to the relevant parties (the drivers boss/company and/or the police) - he chose to post an account of the incident which was ever likely to lead to some speculation, and that's all it is.
incidents
Absolutely and several people posted suggestions to obtain the address of the company and both Conor and I actually posted the address of the company, which I think goes to show that nobody is 'taking sides' here.
(There has been a fair amount of threadjacking from some other posters though!)
Kevin.
It provides the data.
That's an RMS figure. Fewer than 67% of all position fixes will lie inside a 7M radius of the actual position. You also have the problem that given an area of uncertainty you don't know whereabouts in that are you are. Nitwits tend to assume one is in the centre of the circle, this is untrue.
Huge ( snipped-for-privacy@ukmisc.org.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
I didn't.
Steve ( snipped-for-privacy@Way.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
Erm, every road in the *EU* would have to be done.
Something like that could only come in EU wide, as *every* car would have to be fitted with the limiter.
SteveH ( snipped-for-privacy@italiancar.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
AIUI, they can play with the accuracy in certain areas of the world only.
Which just goes to show how crap a technology it is to base something with such a major effect on safety on.
We are still creating a UK speed limit database for all roads. Until that is ready and up to date the system will never work properly. What we might have until then is rudimentary top speed limiting as on large vehicles. Legislation has already extended to vehicles over 3.5 tons or with more than
8 seats so we should brace ourselves.
Good enough for the Traffic Department to set up early VASCAR devices and prosecute offenders with evidence gained with said devices.
Yet again found to be lacking in credibility. Must do better. :)
What does the "G" in GPS mean to you?
Aye, that's true, but aren't the satellites geo-stationary, which means you can selectively tweak the accuracy of just a certain set of them?
*You* may not have, but your newsreader is;
SteveH ( snipped-for-privacy@italiancar.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
*Ding*
IIRC the constellation is about 11,000 miles up and not geo stationary. I imagine each satellite transmits a signal containing information about its current position, velocity and relationship to other satellites. On receipt of 4 such messages the gps receiver calculates a fix. Damned If I could do the maths at all yet alone once a second or so.
I don't see why not but believe they are updated from one site in northern US. So they would need to be in radio reception of here to be changed, yet the unchanged set would be over the piece of earth where SA may be wanted.
I am not keen on automatic speed controls but would sometimes like to be reminded of the limit when I am driving through, something a bit quicker than counting lampposts or spotting a repeater.
AJH
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No, the satelites are at about 12,600 miles - which means they pass roughly twice a day.
The message from snipped-for-privacy@despammed.com contains these words:
There's a good primer on GPS here...
Huge ( snipped-for-privacy@ukmisc.org.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
No, it isn't. The Followup-To line has been changed, as XNews automatically asks where to set the followup whenever crossposting to several groups.
The Newsgroups line hasn't changed in the whole thread.
Sometimes I'll accept but certain people on here seem to think its most of the time.
Doing the thick end of 2000 miles a week on motorways don't you think I'd notice if it was alot of them?
The EU has the same speed limits for trucks for all member countries.
Actually if you'd read my friggin post, I was trying to help the guy out by suggesting that he didn't put in anything about the 75MPH speed limit as it would pretty much guarantee that the letter would be viewed by the TM as yet another lorry hater rant instead of the report of a very serious bit of bad driving.
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