SO MANY SPEED CAMERAS!! | Driving from Amsterdam to Bath, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@Kerleem]

All the talk about the McLarens speeding in the UK, it's good timing for this video about driving to Bath from Amsterdam. The UK loves speed cameras!

[@vista9434]

The funny part about a lot of the speed cameras in the UK are that they're often just empty shells. The older Gatso units that are still all over the place have a limited number of camera guts to go around so a lot of the time, they're empty. In 2017, 46% of the fixed camera sites were not working according to a FOI request to police forces. Today, many of the older Gatso units have been replaced with newer cameras and those are probably all active.

[@Kerleem]

Haha I thought that could be the case but I guess you never know

[@Interceptor810]

I frequently have to go to Baltimore for work and Ive seen them here as well. But its more of a speed trap than anything else. Its like they designed the road for people to speed only for the speed to be much lower and then they capture you driving fast and send you a ticket on mail

[@Kerleem]

A money grab scheme!

[@Diederik07]

Flitsmeister and Waze are pretty accurate in the UK in my experience so I don’t mind the speed cameras so much. Much better than the mobile speed checks in the Netherlands.

[@Diederik07]

Btw, Belgium is MUCH worse in terms of speed cameras and average speed checks. Always get tickets there, even with Flitsmeister on…

[@BalooUriza]

Even better is planning your trip appropriately so you're not pressuring yourself to speed in the first place.

[@KxemonPlayz]

Why are you not famous.... you're such a good youtuber

[@Kerleem]

🤣

[@kaitlyn__L]

Fascinating to see an American say our 50-60mph country roads are signposted too fast! In a lot of online discussions I see Americans saying it's too slow and should be 70mph, but I guess they're accustomed to their wide roads while you've experienced just how narrow some of our roads are! And yeah, most people don't usually even go 50mph on those roads even when you can go 60. My mother, though, was one who pushed 55-60 (so long as there wasn't much traffic) even on pretty windy ones... which always made my dad freak out. He'd usually take those roads at about 45. Glasgow's had 20mph limits around housing for over a decade by this point, with the slogan "Twenty's Plenty" on those signs (and the speed limit circle is green rather than red since it's technically advisory, you can technically legally still go 30. Practically you can't though, so long as there's any other drivers around you though - everyone respects it.) It definitely makes city driving less stressful. I also find your confusion with the larger roundabouts really interesting - I find American style huge freeway intersections far more confusing. I like them for connections to motorways or larger A-roads, because it simplifies the decision-making by splitting it up into a series of decisions rather than making it into one big one. And also because, just like with all roundabouts versus regular junctions/intersections, the land use requirement is fairly minor in terms of lanes required. I also like how dense the trees and hedges can get on the central roundabout, compared to the sparser greenery that grows between complicated arrangements of slip-lanes in a regular junction. I agree it can be difficult to know what lane to be in just by the traffic around you though, it really requires you read the painted road signage and be prepared to change lane at every single subsequent junction. There's no "streamlined" way where you can just stay in one lane and get taken "automatically" where you want to go.

[@PointNemo9]

Driver's have common sense, they don't plough into a 90-degree corner at 60Mph just because that speed is legal. Also on the straight stretches, 60Mph is perfectly safe and appropriate, and having a speed limit change every 100 metres would just be pointless and impossible to implement anyway. Having a low speed limit when it is perfectly safe to exceed it for long stretches would be just stupid.

[@Kerleem]

good point

[@AutoEuro020]

So cool!

[@Kerleem]

thanks!

[@hayabusabg85]

i was living for 6y in uk and the speed limits was 30,50,70 and they have noise camaras as well :D this is what i see on youtube moto vlogers :D

[@Kerleem]

indeed!

[@stephenmartin5766]

if its not to personal of a question, how did you do the move to Europe? in demand job field, entrepreneur or lots of money to get citizenship by investment, or did you just move and get a residency permit? I've been considering moving to Europe for a while now but it seems to be very difficult without lots of money or a high demand job. My job is high demand everywhere but it's fairly easy so they try to go for people in that country or Europe not America from what I've seen lol

[@Kerleem]

I moved for work!

[@PointNemo9]

A 60Mph road in the UK does not necessarily mean that traffic should flow at that speed, it means use your brain to determine the safe speed according to conditions, with a maximum speed of 60Mph.

[@Kerleem]

Then why allow a maximum speed that high

[@PointNemo9]

@Kerleem Because driver's have common sense, they don't plough into a 90-degree corner at 60Mph just because that speed is legal. Also on the straight stretches, 60Mph is perfectly safe and appropriate, and having a speed limit change every 100 metres would just be pointless and impossible to implement anyway.

[@Kerleem]

@@PointNemo9 why can’t motorways have a 100mph speed limit then?

[@PointNemo9]

​​@@Kerleem They should be unlimited, 100Mph is perfectly safe on the motorway when conditions permit

[@mlx39996]

@@Kerleem because unlike you americans we actually know how to drive :)