When driving at 30mph (for example) and you approach a 40mph speed limit sign?
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Your instructor should know precisely! When approaching a higher speed limit sign, (check mirrors - rear and offside), if no-one is about to overtake increase speed when you reach the new speed limit sign. When approaching a lower speed limit sign, check your rear view mirror well before the sign and judge slowing down gradually (rather than brake harshly), so that by the time you are at the 30 sign you are doing the new speed. Don't worry if you are still going a little faster as you pass the sign ie 31/32 but continue to bring you speed down.
You should speed up to about 34 as you approach the sign, then after you pass the sign, hammer it!
Begin to accelerate to 40 MPH when the nose of your car reaches the plane of the sign. Until you reach the sign you are still in a 30 MPH zone.
The 40 mph is applicable "at" the road sign and beyond until otherwise indicated.
dont hammer it ^ when you pass the 30 then speed up if you can
No you should be at 30 until you get to the sign and then you can speed up. The speed limit is a maximum allowed not the speed you must go.
40 is the max speed you can go in that area. and as a student driver you should be under the speed limit with the instructor in the car with you. 30 i s good in a 40 mph. good luck
stay at 30 until you have passed the 40 sign. I was picked up for speeding in the same circumstances in Lincolnshire in 2000. I worry about the ability of your Instructor m8....
Technically you dont HAVE to be at 40mph provided it is the speed going up. If the speed is going down you need to be going at the given speed by the time you reach it. The rule isn't too clear cut but just to be safe as soon as you see the sign begin to slow down
stay at 30mph untill you reach the sign then your not breaking the speed limit, once past the sign go to 40, but keep an eye on the speedomitor it might creep up faster than you think!
you slow down as you are approaching it, so to be at 30 when you reach it. (your insrtucetor not very clever)
You should be at 30mph until you pass the sign but you should be prepared to speed up (in the correct gear etc and you should check mirrors before speeding up). Once past the sign, you should then accelerate.
The 30 limit is in force from the last sign, until you reach the 40 sign.
ie, if you were clocked at 38 mph, 15 feet before the first '40 MPH' sign, you could be prosecuted for speeding, as you were still officially in the 30 MPH zone
Go to 40 after the sign.
My-oh-my.
Do you actually pay your driving instructor or have you made that bit up?
The speed signs are not indications of the speed that you should be going when you pass them, but are there to tell you of the MAXIMUM speed that you should be doing in that particular zone.
Therefore in a 30 zone as you approach a 40 zone. you keep doing 30, or below, until you pass the sign when you can then increase your speed safely, if you wish, so that it does not exceed the new maximum speed.
My instructor told me to make sure i was doing 40 by the time i got to the sign, but in the eyes of the law this would be wrong as you would be doing over 30/nearly 40 in a 30zone..
Best to stay at 30 until you pass the sign :-)
It would be physically impossible to decelerate 10mph in the thickness of a signpost so you have no choice but to make you speed hit 30mph as you reach it.
There are numerous places i can take you where unmarked police sit just past a 30 speed limit that comes in from a 40.
There worst one i ever saw is between sheffield and Rotherham, your on a 40mph road and you heading towards the junction for the M1 so logic would say the road should get faster but for something like 150metres is drops to 30!
Police sit there constantly because everyone speeds up, they must catch loads.
So regardless of the exact law, kill your speed before you get there.
The change of speed limit occurs once you have reached the sign, if your driving instructor can't be clear on this I think you should consider finding someone else!
Don't increase your speed to 40 until after the sign.
Remember 40 is the MAXIMUM speed. It may not be advisable to do the maximum speed if visibility is poor, or the weather is bad or other circumstances occur. You must use your judgement.
Also sack your instructor and get one who knows what he's doing.
by law if you exceed the 30mph limit in a 30mph zone you are exceeding the speed limit.
so the leagl answer is 30mph untill you are past the 40 sign, then accelerate as required to the 40MPH limit, if conditions permit
the real world answer is accelerate just before the sign so that you get to arounf 40MPH failry soon after the sign
If you are anything above 30 before you have got to the 40 sign you are speeding. So once you reached the sign then you may increase you speed to 40.
I cant beleive your instructor was vague about it. My instructor made sure I knew that!!
By law only at the sign or just after should you accelerate.
In practice people accelerate up to the speed of the sign as or before they pass it.
My opinion >
Speed and space from the car in front should be automatically electronically controlled for speeds over 20mph.
only pass the 30 mph mark once you've passed the sign. If you speed up before it you are still in a 30mph zone and will be speeding
after the sign! lol
From my own experience,I got a speeding ticket doing 50mph coming out of 35 mph zone.I could have thrown a rock and hit the 50mph sign. I've found out after the fact,that the police use that particular spot,because it's a no-brainer-ticket-spot. Entrapment ,I'd say!
My vote is..after the sign.
Wait until you pass they sign
You should stay at 30 untill you reach the sign, then you can go 40 after the sign,
Think of this if your on a 30 road and in the distance you see the limit is 50 but there are police about half way.are you going to speed past at 50 just because you can see you can speed up further down the road?
Hope that justifies it!!
Just drive around 30mph. When you're very near the 40mph
speed limit sign, press your accelerator and hit it to around
40mph but do not exceed it as it's the max. speed limit sign.
I hope this helps.
rip the sign
You should sack your instructor.
The 30 limit is in place until you pass the 40 sign.
If that wasn't the case that would be like saying the 30 limits end depends on your eyesight or how fast your car accelerates..which is obviously nonsence
in the book you should stay at 30 til u reach the sign but if theres no cameras wots stopping you b4 you get to the sign lol
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