Whats your average speed? (Check your sat nav!!)

Rowley Birkin QC · 06-07-2009 10:44am #1

As the title says what has been your average speed since you last reset the counter?

I've had a few late night runs up and down to home so it was sitting pretty at 105 km/h until I spent four days back in Dublin and it dropped to a miserable 37 km/h.:(

I know I'm presuming that everyone has a GPS, that Garmin ad at Christmas was pretty persuasive though

!

EPM · 06-07-2009 10:51am

Car said my average this morning from Cork to Waterford this morning was 98kph...

R.O.R · 06-07-2009 10:58am

Since last re-set it's sitting at around 65km/h overall average and about 69 km/h moving average. Been a good while since it's been re-set.

Looking forward to the M50 works being completed and the average increasing further.

stealthyspeeder · 06-07-2009 11:02am

I retro fitted cruise control to my car at the weekend, so it reset all the computers, I then drove from Belfast to Dublin (using cruise control) and obeyed the speed limit the whole way down (oh the shame! like I always do) and my average speed for the entire journey was 64 mph.

(also cruise control, its brilliant, I got 40.2 mpg from Belfast to Newry, the first time a number over 35 has graced my mpg display since I got the car!)

darcy.jonny · 06-07-2009 11:02am

always wondered if the guards etc seen an avg. speed of say 150 km etc. o a satnav could they use that as evidence od speedding?

stealthyspeeder · 06-07-2009 11:09am

darcy.jonny wrote: »

always wondered if the guards etc seen an avg. speed of say 150 km etc. o a satnav could they use that as evidence od speedding?

No, they have no way of validating that the sat nav or car computer is running to government measurement standards, or even if it was, it is perfectly legal to reach those speeds on non public roads.

Berty · 06-07-2009 11:14am

Not all Sat Navs show average speed. My certainly does not. Tom Tom One V1 Europe.

Original bog standard version.

*Sings

Give a give a give a give a Garmin, Give a give a give a give a Garmin, Give a give a give a give a Garmin

craichoe · 06-07-2009 12:08pm

147km/h

Although i reset on Thursday.

Eoin · 06-07-2009 12:10pm

About 28mph

fletch · 06-07-2009 12:12pm

I remember when I used to use the M50 to get to work and would average 21mph. :eek:

david · 06-07-2009 12:22pm

Overall Avg. 49.4
Moving Avg. 66.9
Max Speed 181 (:eek: Yes, my c*ck is bigger than yours!)

Dist. 26723

All in Metric

Haven't reset it since I bought the car, 12 months ago

Cookie_Monster · 06-07-2009 12:29pm

you do realise that as soon as you turn on the sat nav it will start recording a speed. so while you're in the house / sittting in drive etc trying to program it you will lose out...

Eoin · 06-07-2009 12:38pm

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

you do realise that as soon as you turn on the sat nav it will start recording a speed. so while you're in the house / sittting in drive etc trying to program it you will lose out...

The Garmins have a moving average as well as an overall average.

craichoe · 06-07-2009 1:18pm

david wrote: »

Overall Avg. 49.4
Moving Avg. 66.9
Max Speed 181 (:eek: Yes, my c*ck is bigger than yours!)

Dist. 26723

All in Metric

Haven't reset it since I bought the car, 12 months ago

181 isn't all that fast ... I was doing 219 on friday in an Audi A4 Avant 2.0TDI.

lovely car too.... only thing i didnt like was trying to park it.

david · 06-07-2009 1:20pm

craichoe wrote: »

181 isn't all that fast ... I was doing 219 on friday in an Audi A4 Avant 2.0TDI.

lovely car too.... only thing i didnt like was trying to park it.

Well it's very impressive for my granny wagon 1.4 Honda thanks!

irlpotato · 06-07-2009 1:22pm

darcy.jonny wrote: »

always wondered if the guards etc seen an avg. speed of say 150 km etc. o a satnav could they use that as evidence od speedding?

nah, just tell them you were looking at your satnav on a train/plane/dublin bus driver on the last run of his shift.