General / Off-Topic Speeding

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

So, I drive for a living, fun!

At my work, they track your speed via GPS and if you get caught going more than 10% + 3mph over the limit, for 5 seconds, you get told off essentially.

Remember that bit.

Our new vans have very helpful speed limiters built in, which I use, because keeping the vans at 30mph is actually rather difficult.

Anyhoo, I was travelling through a well known, and very busy 30mph road. It's basically impossible to speed because all the traffic is moving slowly anyway. But I still put the speed limiter on at 32mph (because the van makes an annoying rattle at 30mph, lol -and I can do 35mph before triggering a speeding violation anyway)

Now according to my boss, I was caught doing 41.62mph (very accurate!) about 30 meters before the national speed limit sign.

Now, me being a bit of a nerd, did some ED math!
42mph in m/s is 18.7m/s.
Over 5 seconds is 93.5 meters.

Which means if the coordinates they gave me are right, I was only over the limit for 2~ seconds before entering the national speed limit (60mph).

Lol

Work that one out.

If the coordinates are the point I'd already been speeding for 5 seconds already. That means I'd been speeding for almost 100 meters. In traffic. Without pushing several cars along.

All with the 30 mph limiter on as well... !

And of course, the dash cam didn't catch anything, because it only records if you push the brake.

Yay!

Got a disciplinary for that.
Loads of other drivers keep getting caught "speeding" too. But as far as I know, I'm the only one who uses the limiter to prevent it.

Even more oddly. Everyone has been caught doing 41.xx mph, and always 30 meters before a national speed limit sign.

Yet our bosses are blaming us, couldn't possibly be an iffy GPS tracker.

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead

 

[Patrick_68000]

Even the driver's job lost its freedom.

Sad time.

 

[Nagual]

Next time your out fit a camera so it captures the speedometer and the road

 

[Rade Konn]

I was pulled over last year for speeding (coasting down highway) but I was given a break luckily and years ago as a teen in nyc I was drunk driving at night speeding through back to back red lights but was pulled over for a broken tail light with 2 friends. Long story short after some drama with 1 friend the cops (Most likely corrupt cops looking for something big for promotion) told us if we are drinking go straight home "We don't wanna see you again".

I read a story that someone was pulled over for speeding when he was under the limit so he argued but the new Jersey cop told him "its my word against yours" and I believe it because my mother experienced the same thing in nyc.

Someone I knew calls it cherry picking.

 

[znôrt]

welcome to open. watch out for griefers in suicide gpswinders ... or just observe the speed limit!

 

[Dural]

You're basically using flight assist in 2d.... Honestly....

You can use something like Strava to track speed and location against google maps. Although them you'll just have an argument about whose device is working properly and since it's against your boss you probably won't win.

 

[verminstar]

Yer lucky op...my old boss used to have me drive everywhere cos hed already lost his license fer two years due to dangerous driving and speeding. Ye can imagine that in yer earhole fer years monday to friday although the risks we took sometimes...doesnt do good thinking about it.

Ive put a transit van through the wall of a house once...nobody at home that day but yeah...sharp 90 degree right hander doing 50 in a 40 zone and theres black ice patches...memory lane is a wonderful thing because thats the stuff we didnt get away with. But the stuff we did get away with...hmm times have changed. This was back in the day when yer job depended on ye getting to the job faster than is legally possible...management didnt want excuses, they wanted results and time wasting drivers are what they dont consider employee of the month. Those effects were felt in the wage packet which got that little bit...less.

Times have changed now...they wouldnt get away with that nowadays, vans have to have limiters and GPS tracking. We didnt have those back when I had to pay a mortgage...we was lucky to have a cd player and a working heater, but boy could those old transits shift when ye needed them to.

I admit to being a too fast and aggressive driver, a mix of over confidence perhaps in ones own ability and the fact I dont actually need to be anywhere quickly...I drive like this because I enjoy it. I was best employee running fer a couple years...everyone else in the crew had already lost or were in the process of losing their papers and fer some weird reason, I never got caught. We made the house accident look like a mechanical failure and unexpected black ice and bad visibility bla bla bla.

Basically nobody else was legal to drive so I drew the short straw and had to listen to them screaming at me to get to the job there, and screaming at me to get back home in time fer the kickoff. Means that when ye do make a mistake, others cover yer tracks and remove ye from any blame as if by magic.

But companies wouldnt get away with that nowadays...the silver lining to being medically retired so now its a hobby again and not in a decade old transit van either ^

 

[Demascus]

It' rare sight if I ever any 18 wheelers doing anything less than 10 plus over the speed limit on the turn pike or interstate. So that would be 80 mph at least.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

When I was on vacation in Seattle, I think I was about the only one doing the speed limit.

By the end of my vacation I'd realised there weren't as many traffic cops as there were in Los Angeles, and quite happily did 10mph over along with the rest of the traffic.

 

[Bob Lighthouse]

When I was on vacation in Seattle, I think I was about the only one doing the speed limit.

By the end of my vacation I'd realised there weren't as many traffic cops as there were in Los Angeles, and quite happily did 10mph over along with the rest of the traffic.

Never speed along the Washington or Oregon coast.
You will get pulled over and given a ticket by local cops for being even slightly over the limit.
They have tiny budgets and need the income.