Beware Google Maps speed limits!

[Janine]

I have just come back from a few days away and noticed that Google Maps on iPhones have finally started displaying the speed limit.

BUT it is far from accurate!

A stretch of the A417 between Hereford and Leominster is single carriageway, national speed limit. Google maps dithered between 60, 50 and 40 where no signs showed a change in limit.

The on the A49 towards Ludlow, again a single carriageway, national speed limit, Google maps showed 80mph - not even kph!

Bit more work required methinks.

 

[cliffanger]

Janine - look at your notifications!!!!!!

 

[buttons]

I have just come back from a few days away and noticed that Google Maps on iPhones have finally started displaying the speed limit.

BUT it is far from accurate!

A stretch of the A417 between Hereford and Leominster is single carriageway, national speed limit. Google maps dithered between 60, 50 and 40 where no signs showed a change in limit.

The on the A49 towards Ludlow, again a single carriageway, national speed limit, Google maps showed 80mph - not even kph!

Bit more work required methinks.

They have been activated on Android for some time, mine appears very accurate but I will check it again.

 

[cliffanger]

Just seen that you have read the good news!

 

[joe and sue]

I have just come back from a few days away and noticed that Google Maps on iPhones have finally started displaying the speed limit.

BUT it is far from accurate!

A stretch of the A417 between Hereford and Leominster is single carriageway, national speed limit. Google maps dithered between 60, 50 and 40 where no signs showed a change in limit.

The on the A49 towards Ludlow, again a single carriageway, national speed limit, Google maps showed 80mph - not even kph!

Bit more work required methinks.

That's why i look at the speed limit signs, do not rely on sat nav's etc.
Posted limit is what the police work on, unfortunately sometime a little to harshly

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[Janine]

That's why i look at the speed limit signs, do not rely on sat nav's etc.
Posted limit is what the police work on, unfortunately sometime a little to harshly

I always try to look at the signs but there are quite a few lurking behind untrimmed hedges at the moment so I thought it might be useful back-up.

 

[joe and sue]

I always try to look at the signs but there are quite a few lurking behind untrimmed hedges at the moment so I thought it might be useful back-up.

Signs hidden in bushes etc, don't even get me started on that one !!

 

[gus-lopez]

I always try to look at the signs but there are quite a few lurking behind untrimmed hedges at the moment so I thought it might be useful back-up.

They can't use covid for those as the lazy barstewards rarely cut anything in Devon and Essex and never clean either.

 

[nicholsong]

I always try to look at the signs but there are quite a few lurking behind untrimmed hedges at the moment so I thought it might be useful back-up.

Even worse in France for a RHD driver. They must trim them for LHD. Fortunately I usually have my co-pilot with me who gets sight of them from her angle before I.

Another Gallic trap for the English!

Geoff

 

[Winger]

Janine, with the extra weight of your upgrade you may not have a problem. Congratulations!

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[chaser]

They can't use covid for those as the lazy barstewards rarely cut anything in Devon and Essex and never clean either.

Against the law to cut hedges before September, to save the bird nests.

 

[Janine]

Against the law to cut hedges before September, to save the bird nests.

I think it's end of July.

 

[chaser]

I think it's end of July.

No September just having mine done as we speak.
You stand to lose all subsidy if they see you cutting before now.

 

[chaser]

'Beware of hedge cutting restrictions to avoid BPS penalties'

Farmers have been urged to remember hedge cutting regulations as part of cross compliance to avoid a penalty on their BPS payment.

www.farminguk.com

 

[Janine]

No September just having mine done as we speak.
You stand to lose all subsidy if they see you cutting before now.

Seems like we are both correct!

Hedgecutting ban: One rule for farmers, one for councils? - Farmers Weekly

A council has been accused of “double standards” after one of its contractors was pictured trimming hedges in the peak of the bird nesting season.

www.fwi.co.uk

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[Beemobile]

Cutting a hedge before law states otherwise is one thing, trimming around signs which are covered by heavy growth should not be ignored.

 

[Wildweasle]

They can't use covid for those as the lazy barstewards rarely cut anything in Devon and Essex and never clean either.

Surrey is much the same, one of the richest counties that has the poorest roads

 

[PhilMary]

My wife's new car has a "speed limit sign reader" it flashes up the speed limit as you pass a road sign.
Unfortunately, it "reads" local signs in Gisburn that show "30 in 300 yds" and then it gets upset 200yds down the road where there is another sign this second one shows "30 in 100yds"
What's even better, it goes ape-sh1t when you drive past £1 shop.
This is technology for a solution without a problem
Phil

 

[Landy Andy]

This is technology for a solution without a problem

As is most of it these days.