this is a national speed limit dual carriageway which is 70 mph for this type of vehicle it’s a nice day there isn’t much traffic and visibility is good so it’s easily safe to go 70 mph at the moment she has been staying closer to 60 throughout this road in my experience this speed on this road in these conditions is usually a minor Mark for appropriate speed however she already has a serious Mark for appropriate speed so another driving fault won’t be marked
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Dual carriageway speed in Ireland is 60 mph, 70 on motorways.
Hi Richard, I'm confused the road seems to be a single carriage and the nationa highway states the max speed is 60 mph. Cheers
yeah i got marked for that, but in my defence no one was ahead or behind me at that time, and the road was glazing at me so I couldn't see properly , with a low sun in January
No one live there
I failed for going under the speed limit. It was my only serious mark. One one road…
How can that be a fault. Dropping down to 60 will save a fortune in fuel, dropping down to 56mph will save even more, that's why all HGV's are limited to 56mph because it's optimal MPG speed no matter what vehicle or engine you've got. Plus it's a quiet road and there's a right hand lane for overtaking.
And you wonder why government can't trust us to drive ICE engines anymore.
Why’s he got a high vis on
if you can't drive at least at the speed limit, you shouldn't be allowed to drive. it's good that people get marks for going too slow.
My instructor back in 2018/19 said 60 is fine for national speed limit
That's why you can overtake in this road so that peoplecan drive below the speed limit without being a disturbance to traffic
If you have a long way to go driving at sixty will save a significant amount of fuel
Limit not target…
Where's the rest of the video? In the Facebook Reel version of this, she is coming to a junction across a dual carriageway (the sign and the warning of traffic lights) and her speed would have been reasonable. 60 mph is perfectly adequate for this type of road anyway, a limit is a limit, not a target. I would definitely query any examiner who thought 60 in the left lane of a dual carriageway is a problem. Doing 40 yes. Dunno why so many commenters have a hard on for the learner needing to do 70.0000 mph otherwise they'd blow their car off the road with a bazooka 🤣 Looks like most folk here haven't heard of the kinetic energy equation – kinetic energy is related to the square of the velocity – very handy to know when you want to brake to avoid a collision….
The amount of idiots who think "oh its an A road. Its 60" are numerable.
My wife was failed for this, doing 50 in a 70. In my completely unqualified opinion, it is absolute bs. As has already been said 70 is the limit not the target, if you're comfortable doing 50 and not holidng anyone up (it was a dual carriageway), what's the problem? Should we get all lorries off the road as they only go 56 on the motorway? Should we all drive at 60 through those hilarious NSL country road that are about thr width of a car?
I'd rather someone drive safely at 50 or 60 where I can easily overtake vs someone driving at 67 where it takes longer to overtake and so is more dangerous.
Correct me if im wrong but the National speed limit single lane carrageway is 60mph for cars.
Its 70mph for National speed "dual"-carrageway with a central reservation including motorways.
She is doing the speed limit here at 60mph.
Thoughts?
I'm really surprised, because he's een providing good content for long time, and person without a license can tell you that there's nothing wrong with doing 60 in 70. Bet I drive 60 just to have decent mileage.
My granddaughter recently by accident passed gas whilst parking in a pelican crossing near to her favourite shop, unfortunately she later realised it was in fact a dolphin crossing and received a minor fault.
No fault mate? It’s recommended to do 60 on 70, eco driving 🙂 If someone would like to overtake they have the right hand lane to do so. No fault recorded.
I appreciate an examiner wants to assess your ability to drive at a speed that is at the upper limit of what is deemed appropriate for the conditions.
I hope though pupils don’t take this as to mean that it’s better to drive at 70 when 60 is perfectly safe and not causing any issues or delays.
Indeed, on some motorways and dusk carriageways they are running tests to slow down traffic to 60mph to reduce pollution and congestion, therefore maintaining or even increasing throughout: the number of vehicles actually reaching their destination due to fewer delays caused by phantom breaking and queues forming.
On top of this, if you are lucky enough to have to attend a motorway education course in exchange for three points on your licence and a fine, they will now promote 60mph on the motorway in spite of what a driving test might make you think you should do.
As a now driver its perfectly Alright
Na anything over about 57 and they wont mark you down.
A serious fault for not going at 70 mph? Wtf? So i should be over the speed limit then? Is better to go under that over the speed limit as long as she's not causing any delays to other road users.
The should show road markings or road signs ..horrible road in the UK
Just wondering if I can go 40 on the lanes even though they are 60 or should I try to be hitting 50+ because 60 seems so fast for bendy lanes
Stupid! 70 is a MAXIMUM speed!
Dual carriage way or two way road ?
I disagree with this. Why should she be driving at 70? She isn’t overtaking. Okay, you could argue she’s a little on the slow side for the conditions (2-3 mph) but she is being more fuel economic at that speed.
People are concerned about the speed while I’m dying at her foot position on the accelerator pedal.
Stupid rules of this country machine speed limit is 70mph. If she's doing 60mph safe and sound, there shouldn't be any issue
If smart motorways are supposed to be so dangerous why have I never heard anybody complain about this type of dual carraigeway?
Complete bs by driving istructors.
On a single carriage way 60 is the national limit. National limit in dual carriage way is 70
Crying about 10 mph , that's just a joke, all of these testers take these driving tests to far and to serious , failing people over nothing, when people eventually pass the test , they drive the way they like, everyone has there own driving uniqness, she's going at a good speed , no problems there, and giving her a bad mark for that, no wonder there's accidents on the road , your not supposed to be perfect on the road, nothing or knowone is , it's all about safety and finding your own rhythm and not looking for perfection because looking for perfection on the road doesn't exist
On the test you need to show that you can drive at the speed limit if it is safe to do so and that you know what the speed limit is.
Once you have passed your test you can do what you want but if you are driving too slowly and holding people up you are definitely driving badly even if not illegally.
(Of course if you are driving at 30mph on a clear motorway you could be done for driving without due care etc).
I think people who , for example, want to drive at 30mph in a 40 or 50mph limit should pull over occasionally to let people overtake safely.
Tractors should be legally forced to pull over every two miles to let a stream of traffic past if it has built up and they are driving way under the speed limit imo.
Honestly such a bullshit reason to fail a driving test… I have this habit of always staying a mile or two slower than the limit and I know that’s the best case scenario but when you’re 10 lower on roads like this it shouldn’t be frowned upon.
DVSA needs to reconsider their rules here
National speed limit (white circle with black stripe) is 60
Ordinary cars are more comfortable at about 50 mph on ,60mph roads.
I think people need to actually listen to what he said. She got a MINOR fault, you can have 15 of them and still pass. She is not failing over 10mph, it’s just something to mention as it may cause traffic
Well in northern Ireland I be going at 45mph
I don’t know how I feel about about marking someone for slow speed, learners haven’t developed the confidence to go faster yet, I just passed my HGV driving test and sometimes my trainer would ask me to step on it and honestly, 30mph in a lorry feels like 50mph to me
If it's 70 hit the gas instructor wants to follow speed limits unless there slow moving traffic etc. Foot on the gas
I would NEVER drive at 70 mph on a country road – rabbits,dogs, deer, children could all be lurking in those bushes. What utter bullshit
Jjul carriage way.
Complete and utter bullshit, considering it's already almost impossible to get a driving test and you fail them for something pathetic as this. I have my driving test soon and I'm at my wit's end and in therapy because it's been nothing but hell on earth because of pathetic rules like this. Tw@ts