Seymour said the car in front of him was driving erratically, speeding up and slowing down in the right lane.
I don’t like Seymour as much as the next guy but what is the problem here? Undertaking isn’t breaking any rules as far as I know.
Edit: oh is it that he’s passing a car already doing 110?
David Seymour doesn’t believe in speed limits so that’s OK.
It looks like a Toyota, they’re pretty notorious for having inaccurate speedometers. He was probably doing closer to 95.
I’ve had a few toyotas and driven many more and with the roadside speed signs they don’t seem that far off. I find pretty much all cars over read by about 4kph, give or take a couple, putting the filmer’s speed at a bit over 100.
It does seem like the filmer and the one in front are camping in the right lane when they shouldn’t be.
I guess I just don’t think this is a zinger since this doesn’t even register on the scale for me among all the driving craziness I’ve seen.
I’ve seen almost 10% out, checked against a GPS app on my phone, so almost 110 on the speedo to travel at 100 actual.
I’ve actually fitted tyres a size bigger than recommended to get a speedo to read accurately.
I’m not sure what standard this refers to, but I dug up this article I remember reading previously (it doesn’t appear to be published on the site anymore)
The applicable standard for many vehicles sold in NZ is a European standard that specifies that speedometers must not indicate a speed less than the vehicle’s true speed, or a speed greater than the vehicle’s true speed by an amount of more than 10 percent plus 4 km/h.
If true, that means a speedo is considered legally accurate if it says 114 when you’re driving 100, which is a pretty massive difference.
Bigger tyres is a nice workaround, both our cars over read by 4kph so I just do the maths.
A speedometer that far out is effectively useless, and if I bought a vehicle like that I’d take it up with the dealer.
So yes, Seymour might not have even been speeding.
This is one of my pet peeves; this is not the 1950’s; we can make speedometers accurate to within 3%…this margin would account for all the vagaries of tire pressure etc.
Our newest car; pleasantly has a very accurate speedo…
Modern vehicles have GPS calibrated speedometers, and are often dead on. But for an electronic speedo, there’s no excuse for more than a few percent.
They should give the driver who filmed it a ticket for using their phone while driving.
They really should, it would be hilarious.
They are both in the wrong here.
Guy being passed should be in the left lane. He is filming with his phone while driving and is speeding (technically).
Seymour is speeding faster. Is undertaking, while undertaking is not illegal, it is a driving convention that people expect because that’s how people are taught. People generally are doing checks in their middle and right mirrors, anyone on the left is less likely to be seen.
Only one of them is actually committing a ticketable offence though, as a speedo reading isn’t accurate enough to issue a ticket.
