News26 January 2006 / 19:00
Road chiefs to employ “pace” drivers to ensure motorists stick to speed limit
Road chiefs are recruiting “pace” drivers to make sure motorists stick to speed limits.
This is one of the stupidest ideas I’ve heard in a while. It seems a lot of motorists are none-too-happy about this, as is evidence by the comments from this Pistonheads entry.
I think this will only end up causing more problems than it solves: accidents and road-rage in particular. Many people drive over the speed limit when they’re on the motorway, this is no way to ‘force’ them to stick to the limit. Quite frankly anyone who would volunteer to become a ‘pace driver’ needs their head seeing to.
This has to be one of the most dangerous and stupid ideas to come out of the speed obsessed road safety lobby. People will undertake pace drivers driving at 70mph or less in the third lane of the motorway - it is inevitable. Not least, because the nincompoops will be misusing the third lane, which sis for overtaking; not bloody pacing to stop other drivers making progress. The only reason for a 70mph limit on motorways is political - it has nothing to do with safety.
Comment by Longrider — 26 January 2006 / @ 22:03