I often wonder if drivers of cars and vans ever went to school.

If they did, were they taught to read?

I don’t think so!

Take the temporary speed signs that appear now and then where they are on our roadworks in our beloved motorways and dual carriageways.

The signs nearly always state 50mph, they warn you about them about a mile before the restricted site.

Just like the A27 around Havant recently.

I slow to 50 and then watch about 95% motorists fly by me as if I’m going backwards.

I don’t care because I’m in no rush, and I can read the signs because I went to school.

Why is everybody else in a rush?

Now I hear that technology has come up with the variable average speed camera.

This works by noting your registration number as you enter their view and seeing it again as you leave the temporary speed limit.

By a simple calculation it will work out your average speed through the roadworks.

So, put simply, if you enter at 50mph, and exit at 50 mph, you won’t get a speeding fine.

I believe there is a 10% error built in to these cameras as there is with the yellow fixed camera.

It’s unfortunate that most drivers can’t read because what will they do now?

They will enter the speed limit without reading the warning signs.

They might think, ‘Bugger…. I wish I went to school because I can’t work out that if I entered at 70mph, how slow must I go when I exit.’

The lucky ones that can read might think, I’m doing 70mph now, and so what speed will I have to leave the restricted area so that the cameras will think that my speed was 50mph.

Is it 40mph, or is it 30mph?

Or, even slower?

This will be good for traffic flow, (I don’t think so) as lots of vehicles will be doing 25mph as they exit the roadworks.

All because they can’t read the mph warning signs.

Stop speeding and go back to school and learn to read!

For more info – copy and paste this –
http://www.pipstechnology.co.uk/applications.php?section_id=2&article_id=6

That’s if you can read this.