Someone got caught doing 250+ in northern Victoria!! someone else got caught doing180

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The most serious offence on the face of it is the one detected at 180km/h in the 60km/h zone. This is obviously a built-up area, inherently far more dangerous than someone in a 110km/h dual-carriageway zone, full stop.

Rem, these are typically momentary speed 'top outs', not necessarily sustained, - owing the necessity to vary speed because of constantly varying road and traffic changes per length.

REM too - that on the rural Stuart Highway in NT, this is not an offence.

Each offender detected is guilty of 'exceeding the speed limit' and should plead so at court, but may or may not be found guilty of other 'speed related' charges.

What comes into this is 'manner', the length of road/duration, and factors relating to varying traffic density and so on.

Some at speed are quite tidy, yet others at the same speed can appear quite messy.

The 250km/h speed (70 metres per second) is normal, dry - daily autobahn speed, and I can tell you autobahn are not the ants pants of road building either.

IF we argue a '5 second reaction time' (hideously drunk/dead person performance) for an 'event requiring urgent action on part of the driver' to the 70 metres for 250km/h reality, thats 350 metres travelled before driver action to brake.

Add then to this 350 metre distance figure - the braking performance of say an FSM Niki from that speed (250km/h) to come to a full, safe stop, lets say 200 metres:-) a total of 550 metres SIGHT DISTANCE of a length of road would be required, and mathmatically is required to be considered safe.

The further you can see ahead so to speak, the better.

HOWEVER, other factors come into play that combat that mathmatical reality are for example, 'night driving and headlight' seeing performance, TYRE speed rating and pressure at point of operation, and indeed literally hundreds of other factors that I can think of can come into play that can prove various charges, but may not if they are not factual.