Dont trust your in-built SATNAV Road speed limit display

[GrahamFR]

Hi,

I have the RNS315 in my car, dont know about the others but mine shows the speed limit in the top left on the satnav part.

Well today ive decided its bloody rubbish! Im pretty sure ive just been clocked doing about 37 in a 30! my stupid sat-nav said it was a 40 but as i approached the mobile van my snooper started flashing RED, i breaked pretty sharpish but im sure i saw someone move about in the van as i drove past so probably logging my entry!

just thought i would vent it on here and warn you all, looks like ill be off to a road safety awareness course and for a change it genuinely wasnt my fault!

 

[Torred1771]

That stinks big time! I dont trust the speed limit display on my satnav, I know it isnt built into the car bit I still dont trust it.

 

[Slimy]

There's been enough stories on 'tinternet about not trusting sat navs for ANYTHING!! You can't even trust them to show you the right way! And round here there have been so many speed limit drops that I'm amazed anything could keep up.

My Ovi maps is forever telling me to slow down, which is really annoying when you know there is a turning somewhere and you're waiting for the prompt!

 

[GrahamFR]

i think i trusted the speed on my old TOM TOM more than this now, at least the tom tom can update easily enough

 

[Torred1771]

My satnav seems to be pretty good with directions, drove from Harrogate to London(Croydon) straight though the center of London passed big ben and london eye with no troubles.

 

[GrahamFR]

this RNS315 is actually better than my tomtom for workign out one ways and stuff, i had complete faith it until today, its really annoying, I was like "Ha Ha Mr speed camera van, i see you and im not breaking the speed limit" (for legal matter i never do anyway ) and then i was like "Whats that beeping noise? Oh F%ck its a 30!"

Its been a bad week, lost my jacking clamp cover again yesterday too

 

[rllmuk]

In all seriousness, you should have been aware of the road signs indicating the change in speed limit at all times - relying on sat nav is a recipe for disaster.

 

[Nath.]

Why not just use your speedo and the road signs like everyone else?

 

[Hugo Nebula]

Hi,

I have the RNS315 in my car, dont know about the others but mine shows the speed limit in the top left on the satnav part.

Well today ive decided its bloody rubbish! Im pretty sure ive just been clocked doing about 37 in a 30! my stupid sat-nav said it was a 40 but as i approached the mobile van my snooper started flashing RED, i breaked pretty sharpish but im sure i saw someone move about in the van as i drove past so probably logging my entry!

just thought i would vent it on here and warn you all, looks like ill be off to a road safety awareness course and for a change it genuinely wasnt my fault!

Hate to say it, but one should not rely on your sat-nav alone; you should know the rules of the road, including speed limits. Where there are street lights and no other signs, the limit is 30 mph. For a 40 mph limit to be in force, there should be small speed limit confirmation signs every few hundred metres.

OTOH, if your speedo indicated 37 mph, you were probably going around 32-33 mph which is within most police force/scamera partnerships' tolerance of 30+10%+2 mph.

 

[K1Shane]

for a change it genuinely wasnt my fault!

Why not just use your speedo and the road signs like everyone else?

Unfortunately, and not to sound harsh, but blaming the sat-nav would never stand up in court mate. Theres plenty of signs around, and road markings if there are no signs which indicate speed limits

 

[andycupra]

this thread is hilarious.

 

[K1Shane]

this thread is hilarious.

11 posts and already hilarious?

 

[joolsvern]

this thread is hilarious.

Ridiculous more like, its only one step up from that guy blaming a sat nav for sending him into a river!

On a positive note I feel like a Brain Surgeon in comparison to some people! I wonder what Brain Surgeons feel like in comparison to said people.

 

[dannychapman10]

Roads change all the time, unfortunately, maps are only released once a year, and even then, they're out of date as soon as they do come out!

 

[OLDOILER]

Why not just use your speedo and the road signs like everyone else?

Because the speedo's IS slow!! I always use the GPS tracker plus the 10% tol used by the enforcement agency's [ and still working to the signed speed limits ]

 

[koason]

me too. I think my Tom Tom is worth trusting now

 

[GrahamFR]

look i know it wont stand up in court, i never said it would and im not saying that i shouldnt have been more aware, but i work all around the country in areas that i dont know, and i pulled out of a post office car park and the van was like a 500m down the road, there were no road signs to confirm the speed so i trusted the sat-nav, something i dont plan on doing again.

Oh and Jools, congrats on being the first brain surgeon from Donny.

 

[joolsvern]

look i know it wont stand up in court, i never said it would and im not saying that i shouldnt have been more aware, but i work all around the country in areas that i dont know, and i pulled out of a post office car park and the van was like a 500m down the road, there were no road signs to confirm the speed so i trusted the sat-nav, something i dont plan on doing again.

Oh and Jools, congrats on being the first brain surgeon from Donny.

Not from Donny, just unfortunate enough to live here Jeremy Clarkson and Kevin Keegan are from Donny, thats why I moved here, also the fact I was using my sat-nav to get home to Sheffield and it all went wrong.

 

[andycupra]

look i know it wont stand up in court, i never said it would and im not saying that i shouldnt have been more aware, but i work all around the country in areas that i dont know, and i pulled out of a post office car park and the van was like a 500m down the road, there were no road signs to confirm the speed so i trusted the sat-nav, something i dont plan on doing again.

the fact you could not see any signs tells you its a 30 zone.

If there are street lights you must assume a 30 zone unless otherwise informed via speed limit signs or repeater signs.

 

[JamesL]

Ridiculous more like, its only one step up from that guy blaming a sat nav for sending him into a river!

On a positive note I feel like a Brain Surgeon in comparison to some people! I wonder what Brain Surgeons feel like in comparison to said people.

LMAO

look i know it wont stand up in court, i never said it would and im not saying that i shouldnt have been more aware, but i work all around the country in areas that i dont know, and i pulled out of a post office car park and the van was like a 500m down the road, there were no road signs to confirm the speed so i trusted the sat-nav, something i dont plan on doing again.

Oh and Jools, congrats on being the first brain surgeon from Donny.

At the end of the day you should never have trusted the sat nav at all! I can't believe you wrote that you genuinely didn't think this was your fault. Who else was driving the car? Its your foot on the pedal, the sat nav doesn't control that!

the fact you could not see any signs tells you its a 30 zone.

If there are street lights you must assume a 30 zone unless otherwise informed via speed limit signs or repeater signs.

Surely you had to have driven to the post office car park at some point? What were the speed limit signs saying before you pulled into the car park? If its a post office, these are normally in accessible, urban/rural area's. This would mean there was probably paths alongside the road. There would be pedestrians around. There were probably street lights around. I could pretty much have guaranteed you the road would have been 30 from the point you said you'd been to a post office - pretty unlikely to have a post office in the middle of somewhere no one can get to.

Sorry if it seems like I'm having a go at you, its not necessarily you personally - I just don't get why people generally can't take a bit more responsibility for their actions and use a bit more common sense when driving. Have you not seen those adverts about what would have happened if you had hit someone at 40mph instead of 30mph? Driving can be dangerous and some people are a hazard.

Sorry, but you need to MTFU, don't blame it on the satnav, take it on the chin and learn your lesson to pay more attention to speed limits and your surroundings. I watched someone nearly knock over a pedestrian trying to turn down a road which was one way and clearly marked 'no entry' the other day - purely because they were following their sat nav.