THINK I've just been caught speeding on motorway

[Cyclone]

You must be doing something wrong then I've never had trouble doing it.

 

What distance can you make out someone's eyes? Whilst also keeping good observation of the road and your surroundings of course, and driving at 50 or 60 mph.

 

How about this junction.

 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.380156,-1.5666181,3a,75y,235.31h,87.92t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sro5bdNKEqGg8qSVG6v1k2w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

 

You're on the A57 manchester bound, you can make eye contact with a driver looking for a space to pull out from RVR? Not even on a perfect day.

 

---------- Post added 28-03-2017 at 18:22 ----------

 

We disagree. Ass-u-me (?) Once again, you stretch my words to the n'th degree for no other reason than you fancy an argument (I reckon) and have the last word.

 

I take your words at face value and apply them to real situations where they don't actually make sense. That's not stretching them, it just means that like a lot of blanket advise, they don't always make sense.

 

Driving/riding to the clear piece of tarmac ahead of you (and not paying any attention to the dangers coming from the sides in all contexts/speeds) comes with the risk of being surprised and of getting involved with someone else's "failed to look properly" (SMIDSY): a single factor quoted on Stats19 that outnumbers any other single factor and which is a factor in more than 40% of all injury collisions that are attended by the Police.

For "gaining eye-contact" at high speeds/from a distance read "look at the head, read the body language. See more than "are the wheels turning?"

 

I didn't say we should ignore traffic waiting to pull out. We DO have to assume that it won't pull out, until we see some reason to believe otherwise, otherwise it would be impossible to actually get anywhere.

 

If I dare to try to rephrase, you're saying, observe as much as you can, the position of the car, the angle of the wheels, whether it's stationary, which way the driver is looking (if you can tell), if possible make eye contact. Observe as much as possible to make a reasoned judgement regarding whether they have seen you and are giving you priority.

[kingdom]

It's motorbike-doable on UK roads

 

On open roads, I'll own up to 250 kph speedo (CX 2.5 GTI Turbo, it was the Porsche's fault) and 140mph speedo (1.8 MX-5, it was the Elise's fault), emtpy-enough motorways each time.

 

But that was never in the UK (it's always been far too busy for my taste), and so long ago that there must be prescription by now

 

yes it was a motorbike