Plans to lower speed limit in Wales to 20mph

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Plans to lower speed limit in Wales to 20mph

Postby dvenman » Tue Jul 12, 2022 4:21 pm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-62020427

Not sure that's such a good idea...

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Re: Plans to lower speed limit in Wales to 20mph

Postby Strangely Brown » Tue Jul 12, 2022 7:05 pm

dvenman wrote:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-62020427

Not sure that's such a good idea...


And the prize for understatement goes to...

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Re: Plans to lower speed limit in Wales to 20mph

Postby GTR1400MAN » Tue Jul 12, 2022 7:06 pm

The slippery slope to the bottom has started. :cry:

Personal car/vehicle use is going to disappear as we know it.
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Re: Plans to lower speed limit in Wales to 20mph

Postby vanman » Tue Jul 12, 2022 7:17 pm

cruel :D but funny :D

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Re: Plans to lower speed limit in Wales to 20mph

Postby waremark » Tue Jul 12, 2022 9:47 pm

GTR1400MAN wrote:The slippery slope to the bottom has started. :cry:

Personal car/vehicle use is going to disappear as we know it.

Do you think autonomous vehicles may be allowed to travel faster?

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Re: Plans to lower speed limit in Wales to 20mph

Postby vanman » Wed Jul 13, 2022 9:25 am

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Do you think autonomous vehicles may be allowed to travel faster?[/quote]
Methinks that is the nub, the slower they go the further they can go between charges. Another reason for dropping perfectly good national's to 40, or am I being paranoid? :flail:

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Re: Plans to lower speed limit in Wales to 20mph

Postby Strangely Brown » Wed Jul 13, 2022 10:48 am

vanman wrote:
waremark wrote:Do you think autonomous vehicles may be allowed to travel faster?

Methinks that is the nub, the slower they go the further they can go between charges. Another reason for dropping perfectly good national's to 40, or am I being paranoid? :flail:


Just because you're not paranoid it doesn't mean that they're not out to get you.

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Re: Plans to lower speed limit in Wales to 20mph

Postby jont- » Wed Jul 13, 2022 2:04 pm

waremark wrote:
GTR1400MAN wrote:The slippery slope to the bottom has started. :cry:

Personal car/vehicle use is going to disappear as we know it.

Do you think autonomous vehicles may be allowed to travel faster?

If they can't, they're doing it wrong (for the same reason speed limits shouldn't apply at all to automous cars. If they can't work out when they need to be travelling slower than the speed limit, they're not fit for purpose, and if they can do that, why do they need a limit at all?)

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Re: Plans to lower speed limit in Wales to 20mph

Postby GTR1400MAN » Wed Jul 13, 2022 7:41 pm

vanman wrote:Methinks that is the nub, the slower they go the further they can go between charges. Another reason for dropping perfectly good national's to 40, or am I being paranoid? :flail:

It had to be done :lol:
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Re: Plans to lower speed limit in Wales to 20mph

Postby Gareth » Thu Jul 14, 2022 10:45 am

waremark wrote:Do you think autonomous vehicles may be allowed to travel faster?

I think only cyclists will be allowed to travel faster.
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