News - Escort Live delivers cloud-based alerts for speedy motorists

[miniyazz]

If the car in front is going fast enough for you to need to break the speed limit to overtake why do you need to overtake?

[Saracen]

Ahhh theres always one.

I tend to overtake as quickly and safely as possible, sometimes this means breaking the speedlimit.
I'd rather speed for a few hundred yards than spend longer than needed on the wrong side of the road...

Agreed. I was taught (by a highly qualified police driver) that the less time spent on the wrong side of the road, the better. But .... if you speed to do it, and get caught, well, we can't really complain, can we? Speeding is, after all, one of those 'absolute' offences where, if you do it and aren't covered by one of the very limited number of statutory defences, and they can prove you did it, then why you did it is immaterial, even if it's for safety reasons.

[Noli]

In theory yes, but you can bet your arse that they wont actually check those camera's before issuing a ticket, they'll just send out a ticket and hope the majority cough up and they when challenged do they check the other evidence..

I did use the /s for sarcasm indicator.

Hence you've just reiterated the exact point I was trying to make.

Still, worth reiterating how much of a sh1tty big brother country it is that we live it.

I wouldn't mind if the goal was to make us better drivers / increase safety but you know the way they do it that it is nothing more than about using motorists to bolster raise income.

I have a dual lane carriageway near me with wide grass verges either side and then separate, parallel roads off that for the houses beyond but they still stick a 30mph gatso there when even 40mph would be more than safe. It's insane. They're taking the great out of britain.