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Hi Doug,
Nothing new there, speedos have been reading under for many years.
It really should be addressed. In Victoria you can be done for 3kms over the speed limit, minus the 3km they allow for error, in a 110kmh zone that's an allowance of 5.5%. There are overhead speed check devices and GPS units are commonplace these days for you to check the accuracy of your speedo, so no excuses for not knowing what it has to read to be doing the speed limit, if you found that your speedo was reading slow (probably after changing your wheel size), you could get it fixed.
What really annoys me is that I like to travel at the speed limit. I have many years experience driving, and drive a race car at significantly higher speeds that I'm allowed to on the road. But you have people tooling along in the right hand lane of the freeway doing their 93kmh (probably on cruise, as everyone else is doing that speed), who refuse to move over or speed up, in fact some will actively try and block you from doing a speed that they deem to be faster than they like.
Now I don't mind these people doing their 93kmh on the freeway, but do it in the left hand lane, not the one next to it, and never in the right hand lane. If you're on a highway, with only one lane each way, don't just blindly follow the car in front at your 93kmh, drop back to allow other cars to overtake more safely, it means that cars will not need to have a huge break in the traffic coming the other way in order to overtake multiples of cars.
I'm no hoon, but I like driving fast, safely. People need to learn to share the road, no one of us owns the road, so try to think of other road users when you're out there.
As you can probably tell this is one of my rant topics, I can talk for hours on road safety and the various rubbish we are feed by the government (Speed Kills, and the braking distances spring to mind) to justify the use of speed cameras as taxation devices. How many people each year are killed by hitting stationary objects (like trees, power poles, sign posts) that are placed on the side of the road without the proper protection, sometimes even by the autorities that are supposed to be protecting us.
That's my 2c (well maybe slightly more) worth.
Cheers
Stuart
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