Worked on mine at home – didn’t on the work PC though.

But it is arbitrary. The limit is 70 not 85. If they started dishing out fines for doing 75mph then motorway speeds would soon come down. The traffic is travelling at 85mph because the law as it stands isn’t being enforced.

Why shouldn’t the speed limits for HGVs, cars and trailers go up accordingly? So car drivers get the law changed because they break it?

If you want to use the thinking distance argument, then the limit should be far higher for motorcyclists than car drivers as the thinking distance is likely to be shorter due to increased concentration and lack of distractions.

We’re talking about the vast majority who drive cars which is apparently why the limit is being changed, not the minority who ride motorbikes. Anyway how many motorbikes do you actually see on the motorway?
Motorbike accidents are a major cause of road deaths on A class roads not on motorways I would suggest.

The Departed

Excellent stuff. A great Scorsese movie.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

OK I suppose. A few laughs.

And that is the problem. The policing by consent goes to pot because plod doesn’t enforce the law. They create an arbitrary 85mph limit off their own backs! Speed cameras aren’t so picky though 🙂

The point about the 70mph not being a magic number is worth looking at though. 70mph has worked by and large as a limit for many years and cars can indeed cruise at this speed effortlessly for hours much more so than when the limit was introduced.
If you allow cars to travel at 80, will the speed limit for lorries etc. be increased accordingly?

Modern cars have all sorts of aids to make for better stopping distances but not all cars are built or indeed driven to the same standard. The thinking distance part however is the same as before and indeed with quiet, smooth cars with nice stereos, the thinking distance may in fact be a lot longer than the 21m quoted in the Highway Code.
The other major factor is that the motorway network is considerably busier than it was then the limit was created. It is the high speeds when the motorways are busy that cause the biggest problems.

I think the proposed increase to 80mph is a cynical “vote-winner” designed to fool people into thinking the government is on the side of the motorist.
If a system of variable speed limits was proposed that varied with traffic and weather conditions, then that would be worth doing. So I guess that won’t happen.

That was proved to be false. The B-52 was unable to make the necessary manoeuvres to line-up on Farnborough. No navigational ****-ups involved.

However, the F-111s at Kinloss instead of Lossiemouth, the Sabena 737 at Woodford instead of Manchester, the list is long and embarrassing.

Perhaps the snowplough drivers know more than they are letting on.

OH NO – winter is coming!

I would imagine that includes yaw damping. It is a secondary function of the flight control computers.
Why haven’t (according to Ship741) Boeing put hard limits in the FBW system? Do they really want to allow pilots to fly the aircraft beyond the allowable limits?