Impending 80mph Motorway limit. Will it affect you?

[warren t claim]

Will it change how you drive on the motorway?

 

Will you stick to 80mph or go for 80 + 105 + 2 mph?

 

Will your old shite stand the pace?

[Wilko220]

Is this back on the cards again then? I thought they'd said it was not going to happen now.

[dollywobbler]

I'm not pleased. 2CV can't do 80mph. It'll just about do an actual 70mph - over 5000rpm though.

 

I do find 80mph a very comfortable speed in the BX and Merc though. Would I nudge it up to 90mph? Not sure to be honest.

[Albert Ross]

Pah.

[ShiteRider]

Bizarrely the BM is better on juice at 80 than 30........... i still only do 65 though so no.

[Junkman]

It will finally enable me to once more in life travel at speeds I don't fall asleep at, something I dearly miss since I ventured to the green pastures of Britain so long ago.

 

However, unfortunately it's not going to happen. The majority of British motorists is vastly overstrained already at 70, in fact, most of them are out of their wits at anything above 38, so there won't be much movement on motorways once the limit is lifted, due to a serious smash up every odd mile.

[autofive]

wont really effect me as i drive at 90 mph everywhere

[HillmanImp]

Who pays any attention to the speed limit anyhow? Not even the police do. When I was pulled over a few years back in N. Yorks they said that they don't bother as its not enforceable as everyone goes over it.

 

He said they will pull people over for doing over 90, if its over 96 its their discretion as to whether it goes to court, if its over 100, they will always take them to court. 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

People will be passing me faster. 

[Wilko220]

As has been said many times before, sorting out people's appalling lane discipline would do a lot more to speed up journey times than putting the speed limit up by 10mph.

[Micrashed]

The Micra will self destruct at 80 by shaking itself to death

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=dq6T5BojXc8#t=72s

[vulgalour]

My usual motorway speed is 56-70mph, I doubt an increase in speed limit would see me change that.  I tend to dawdle along in the inside lane at 56-65mph quite happily, no matter what I'm driving.  Speed, what is point?

[HillmanImp]

Speed, what is point?

 You get where you are going quicker......

[philibusmo]

As even my 1983 1.1 Fiesta will dap along very happily all day at 90 and cruises at 80, it will just make driving it easier as I won't need to be also looking out for the rozzers so much.

[Cavcraft]

I generally do 80mph anyhow and think it's a good idea for it to be this much.

[Spiny Norman]

All it means is that speed will be thrust into the forefront of the Daily Mail, and whereas once we might have been safe doing mid 80s they'll start cracking the whip at 81.

Leave the speed limit alone and start issuing 12 month bans for mobile phone users and tailgaters.

[Junkman]

As has been said many times before, sorting out people's appalling lane discipline would do a lot more to speed up journey times than putting the speed limit up by 10mph.

 

I was thinking exactly that until I drove one of those post-1986 pieces of shit in form of a Fucksall Incontinence or sum such, whatever, you know, one of those commitee-designed two-ton insults for every real automotive engineer they try to qualify off as a car nowadays. With those, it's impossible to maintain lane discipline, because

 

- you can't see the road - or oncoming 40 tonners while we are at it

- you can't judge the dimensions of those things

- you can't keep them in a lane because some little patronising electronickery shit prevents the -well- car(?) from going in the direction you steer

- the steering feels like one of those computer game steering wheels when you switch off the force feedback.

 

Since this ordeal, I'm a lot more forgiving as to how bonkers people drive - it's not solemly their fault. No matter how hard you try, you can't drive properly with this newfangeld tosh.

[Split_Pin]

I drive a 3-popper 13 year old Corsa.

 

If it makes 60 I furiously take notes after journey's end and post it up on Corsasport.

 

Too fast for our shitty roads IMO. If they are going to raise the speed limit then they need to widen those sections where it applies to 3 lanes.

[HillmanImp]

TBH, because of all the fuss in the news the other week about lane hogging it did seem genuinely a bit better on the roads going to Wales over the weekend. I think it was all smoke and mirrors and it will not be policed any more than it was before but its put the idea in peoples heads. Hopefully it will stick.

[Partridge]

I have no problem with 80, but then they’ll be people who sit at 90, as they would have done 80. 

You’ll still get people comfortable doing about 60, and of course trucks. I think having more people do 90 alongside slower moving stuff will just cause more jams, and worse, pile ups. 

[CortinaDave]

We're not getting it in Scotland. The SNP are appalled by it apparently which is a shame.

 

Would I use it? Ten years ago absolutely. These days the Saab I drive has a fuel computer. When I see how much petrol it's costing me to drive at the speed I like to drive at (85) it slows me right down

 

Fuels so pricey and I drive such a thirsty motor that these days I sit with the cruise control on at 65 mostly.

[SambaS]

I try to stay in the outside lane at 100-130mph as often as possible tailgating anyone who gets in my way then undertaking, sometimes on the hard shoulder.

 

I wont be affected by the new law no.

[Spiny Norman]

We're not getting it in Scotland. The SNP are appalled by it apparently which is a shame.

Really? I know that fucker Salmond thinks he's the big cheese but I don't think they can block a UK wide law like that, can they?

[rml2345]

I think if they raise the limit to 80 then the automatic default for many will become 90. I'm happy at the 60-75ish range to be honest so it wouldn't really affect me anyway.

Shouldn't they raise the HGV limit a bit as well? a 24mph difference between them could cause some issues. 

[Station]

I used to drive at 80 - 90 but slowed down one day driving home from home and found I was less stressed out and saved a lot on fuel, I do about 55mph - 65mph now.

I can't wait to have repmobile upon repmobile flashing me in the left hand lane because I'm doing under 80mph (and not moving out of the way for them).

[Partridge]

I wasn’t even aware this had gone through until now. Station, just tap the breaks and watch the Audi fade to a tiny spec.

[Junkman]

And what exactly is so problematic with letting someone pass who wants to drive faster?

[Cavcraft]

I drive a 3-popper 13 year old Corsa.

 

If it makes 60 I furiously take notes after journey's end and post it up on Corsasport.

 

Too fast for our shitty roads IMO. If they are going to raise the speed limit then they need to widen those sections where it applies to 3 lanes.

 

Corsa Sport? Dear God, whilst there are a few really great users of that forum, there's also more than their far share of two bob gobshites with nothing to say but plenty to type. 

[beko1987]

If this does actually happen I won't speed as much as I used to (in terms comparitive to the new limit anyway...)

 

Does that mean 86-87 should see you ok of the scameras? it's 10% or something isnt it?

[Lacquer Peel]

It seems like another Tory goverment tabloid newspaper and crowd-pleasing law, to distract us from all the utter shit they're doing.