Yes, I suspect that it could well prove useful on many continental roads and those in places like the US.
Unfortunately, our roads - in fact our entire transport infrastructure - is a complete mess.
If you think that through though JBR the reason becomes obvious. Remember these are PRIVATE businesses operating courses for which they charge you the princely sum of £90.
If they delivered the courses in a dictatorial or unpleasant fashion then people simply wouldn’t opt for them and then it’s Game Over for them.
So actually we would 100% expect that they will be welcoming and unpatronising and friendly. After all, they don’t give a flying **** whether we drive good or bad, they just want the £90 bums on seats. It’s a business so like all businesses you make the customer feel happy and welcome.
Like I said though they are on very limited time. As soon as the insurance companies start factoring NSACs into their systems and premiums go up, then there’s no point at all going on an NSAC.
It’s more for traffic control. Where I live the motorway is permanently set to 60mph in the morning and evening rush hour periods. The cameras on the side of the gantries are constantly flashing and catching people who don’t know about those new cameras which are laser devices covering all 4 lanes.
There ARE many a tidy penny out of it all though.
If enough people protested and complained and insisted that moneies raised HAD to go to good causes, then they’d stop bothering with the whole scheme altogether.
All these ‘traffic calming’ methods.
Haven’t they missed something, though? Long queues of stationary traffic…
belching out exhaust gases, polluting the atmosphere, fuel being burnt without any purpose.
Why aren’t the Greenies and eco-warriors complaining?
Great on motorways though, particularly when there’s a speed restriction with cameras.
I’ve never used it, to be honest, as I said earlier. However, after you have to slow down (or stop), when you restart does it resume the set speed?
no chance of me being caught, coz I’m Miss Goody Two Shoes and never speed. Speed scares me so the 30mph limit suit me.
I do have cruise control and do use it to keep to the speed limit. But quite a few roads around here have been changed tp 20mph and the cruise control min setting is 25mph. That’s a second gear crawl.
Yes it does, but usually you have to press the resume button on the steering wheel, although adaptive cruise does it automatically
Thanks. I might look into that, though I still think it’s probably not worth bothering with.
I think I have cruise control turned on for 90% of my driving even in suburban areas. All I have to worry about is steering around other cars. Even driving to Canberra on the Hume it can be working for hours at a time and I use the +/- control on the steering wheel as an accelerator when the limit changes from 100 to 110 to 80 or 90 for example.
It doesn’t work at all below 40km but it is particularly handy for those 40kph school zones. The cruise control on my Isuzu is not as good as that on my previous car because it doesn’t remember the last setting and forgets everything once you stop (cheap tradie’s vehicle see).
However still one of the best devices ever fitted to a car in my opinion.
Of course, but you have an efficient road system in the land of Oz.
Are your road signs in km now? We are still desperately clinging on to our miles. Perhaps I’m biased, but I can envisage miles, yards, feet better than metric, although I use mm for small and accurate measurements. 3/32 of an inch is too difficult for me.
It’s really useful when you get those ten mile roadworks with a 50 speed limit and average speed cameras. Once you settle into a bit of space, just set the cruise control at 49 and there’s no chance of losing concentration and going over the limit. If the traffic slows, you can use your brake as usual. i’m not sure if all makes are the same but mine also has a speed switch so you can adjust your speed up or down from the steering wheel.
It’s a bit of an odd feeling at first and you feel as though you are flying along out of control but it just needs getting used to. Clever really, when you think you can set it at a certain speed and the car will stick to that even up or down a steep hill.
Exactly that for me too JBR
Yes, OK. I might try that although, as you said, when I did once try it I did feel a little uneasy!
I used cc on a recent holiday to Cornwall, brilliant, wouldn’t be without it now…
I am not sure about efficient we don’t have the network of roads you have but neither do we have very narrow roads either.
The mistake the UK made when going metric (I mean, I was still at school when it started) was that they allowed both systems to run in parallel eg on the weather forecast they had both Celsius and Fahrenheit. Where was the incentive to change? Here from the day it changed the old system was not allowed at all anywhere so even people like me who objected very strongly to metric got used to it very quickly because we had no choice.
Now, of course I am so glad they did that way and that I was forced to change. Now I have absolutely no idea what 85°F equates to and my one remaining tape measure with both inches and metric on it is the bane of my life.
As for road signs they changed them all virtually overnight, my speedo doesn’t have one of those silly dials with mph and kph cluttering it up. It just has kph.
If Britain could change every gas stove and regulator to natural gas on one night you wouldn’t would have thought changing all the road signs was much of a challenge but apparently it was beyond the powers that be.
There are three things Australia did very well and which the world should have copied. Metrication, Industrial Relations/wage fixing and the Electoral System.
I don’t disagree, but in my ideal Britain we’d have proportional representation and legally binding referenda.
That’s true democracy.
And ideally, all the Royal hangers-on would have to pay speeding and parking fines like the rest of us. 
They don’t have to. They use helicopters (at our expense of course).