Warning for travellers to QLD

Given the ADR permits speedo inaccuracy of +-10% for speeds above 40kph there is SOME argument that 10% should be the tolerance level. Good luck with that in Victoria for example. Timely reminder though because although it's rare that my missus drives the Jack I can't recall telling her about the effect of the bigger tyres on the speedo.

You can also get fined in Qld for leaving your car with the window down more than 5cm

Saw a policeman walking down the street in Bundy today issuing tickets.

Fined for leaving window down

Reducing the tolerance but wont say what that tolerance now is or what it was.

Yep more of the usual government misinformation and fear mongering about road safety issues.

They as that there has been an increase of 23%...but do they actually say that the 23% is due to the reduction in tolerance or is it due to greater inforcement effort or simple a seasonal increase juts out right BS.

HMMM... twenty THREE percent......not 25 or 20.

Sorry these traffic police making media statements are worse than politicians.

cheers

Fatigue is the main killer (but less profitable) which is probably due to "don't speed don't get fined brigade holding up the traffic.
Not everyone is retired and wants to go 20 to 30 ks under the speed limit.
I drive for a living and have noticed that a lot more people are going quite a lot under the speed limit and will not move over to let the big line of traffic behind them get passed.
I am not a trucky but feel very sorry for them as they penalised for being late for deliveries.
I set my cruise control to the speed limit based on my GPS and even that sometimes will go a couple of Ks over the speed limit mainly downhill and guess were the cops sit. Note that with cruise I can concentrate on safe driving, not looking at the speed all the time.
Going a couple of ks over the speed limit is not the killer on the open road ( not taking about in town limits). I cannot even think of an accident recently that involved going just over the speed limit.
The reason they may be reducing the margins in Qld is that people are only just speeding and the the Qld State governments income has dropped because the roads are safer.
Just think if the governments did not get income from speeders than they would have to increase other taxes or better still fined the slow drivers.

Honky

My other concern is how it will effect my driving style. In the past I have been quite happy to drive to the conditions and be part of the traffic flow which may be moving in excess of the signed speed. I was gritting my teeth this morning driving at the speed limit as measured by my inaccurate speedo but mildly confident that I was not breaking the law.

The bride told me that I was driving like an old person! Yeah, great now I'm a crank old man and driving like one! I guess this is what society wants from me I just need to get with the program.

Kind regards