Car insurance review

[PhilT]

Only a little OT and relevant to the carpeesh sensor concern.

@phb

I wonder how many policy holders ensure they always keep to the speed limit under all circumstances … I try not to speed, but can’t guarantee that I don’t from time to time for various reasons (overtaking and accelerating to avoid oncoming traffic especially if being followed in an overtaking manoeuvre…not seeing a new speed limit sign etc).

Isn’t the carpeesh sensor just another version of an always there ‘safety camera’? Safe driving is absolute is it not, or is it?

Speed Trap (& Parking) Subterfuge

The police often use unmarked police cars to carry out both speed enforcement and road patrols. I understand that their use is increasing as they are less noticed by the wider community and therefore less likely to be brought to the attention of other drivers (e.g. flashing lights or CB announcements). We saw several in use and only new they were unmarked police cars when they were pulling over vehicles as they had flashing blues in the rear and front windows. If these were not going, they wou…

In this topic many (rightly as I see it) have a worry about their insurance if one is tracked and they sometimes go out of the accepted envelope of accelerating, braking, speed, etc, but in the other topic if a camera catches you in a rare moment, extenuating or not, missed a sign or not, it was a safety issue, isn’t that how the Speed Trap dialogue has mostly gone? Is one a safe driver or not? Shouldn’t insurance penalise dangerous drivers, or not?