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Hi all, this is a general topic about speeding. Tomorrow I'm attending a speed awareness course as for the first time in my life I was caught speeding, 35 in a 30. I'm totally against speeding and always try to keep my speed well down I fully accept I was speeding. However, I do sometimes think that for a driver in unfamiliar territory it's almost impossible to be driving a legal speed right at the start of a lower speed zone e.g. from nat speed limit into a 30 One minute you're doing 55 in a 60 then suddenly you see the 30 sign in the distance maybe only a 100 yards away. To slow from 55 to 30 in 100 yards is not easy, eco friendly nor safe even, if the road surface is a bit slippery for example Take that scenario to also include reduced visibility and therefore later noticing of the 30 sign. Yes, in that 60 and driving to conditions, you might responsibly be doing this time only 40, but you, as that responsible driver, could still be driving illegally fast when entering the 30, but really not through your fault. I'm not aware of satnavs giving a speed limit countdowns but if they did I'd be the first to use one. I also don't know how far into the limit zone the cameras are located. If in the middle then I do hold my hands up and say ok I was speeding as I did have time to slow. But sometimes I've seen mobile detector vans literally next to the limit sign, giving almost no time to knock speed off in the space between where the sign is first seen, and the actual sign. A limit countdown would be much safer, fairer and eco friendly as cars would just coast down to the limit as opposed to being suddenly braked. Anyone got thoughts on this?