The 'Police' flag is for reporting lurking plods rather than fixed cameras. That then alerts other Wazers in the area of a mobile cash till.
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Yes. But the Waze 'police' tab is in addition to known fixed sites and works in real time by alerting others that a normally free road has been infested by a lurker. Such that if you spot one and press the Waze feature and then another Waze user follows you a few minutes later then the app will alert them to your personal warning.
I don't understand that. Surely, if someone in front is travelling beyond the limit and you are inside the limit then the gap between you will be increasing. Even if you were both at the same speed you must be at a safe distance so if that gap is increasing with every metre travelled then that safe braking distance will also be increasing. So why should the car in front slowing down to match your own legal speed cause any comment from you? Your own progress is unaffected and the gap between you is still there.
Of course, you may be complaining about someone who is travelling within the legal speed but reacts to a warning beep as they check that they are indeed inside the limit. That is quite common in areas where the limit changes frequently as it is very easy to be caught that way. That can be annoying but a follower driving correctly has enough space to react, especially as the unexpected slowing could be caused by an unseen incident in front and nothing to do with a speed warning. But such a driver is not speeding at all. Just making sure that they are not a victim of a 3mph infringement.
It would seem that you have developed a hyper sensitivity to this aspect of driving. That in itself can create tension when driving. Which should be avoided. My own military driver training focussed on observation and gap maintenance with a speciality of personal calmness and avoidance of allowing others actions to cause annoyance or anger. That is usually counter productive. Red mist in a driver constantly finding fault in others driving misdemeanours can lead to needless incidents.
People in a stream of traffic who are all driving a bit above the legal limit is actually far less dangerous than having one 'righteous' po-faced driver amongst them who insists on strictly observing the posted speed and causing them to bunch up and overtake at risky places. In that case the posted speed is wrong and the real life speed is safer. That is the problem there and not your 'endemic' claim that drifting a few miles over an arbitrary limit is a big problem. It just takes a brave politician to recognise that and increase the limit to reflect the performance of modern cars and their brakes. Faced with howls of disapproval from people who have not properly thought through the problem they prefer to keep their heads under the parapet.
Of course, the old argument about increasing the limit on motorways to the 80 mph that people actually drive at would just cause those people to drive at 90 mph, is then trotted out. I don't believe that many would do that. The German experience is evidence of that, even in places with no limit most just drive at reasonable speeds and of course none of that sudden braking syndrome happens as they never hear a limit alert on the SatNav.
The only place that 'speeding' as a sin is actually dangerous imho is in urban areas where cars mix with people, bikes and prams. On open roads exceeding the posted limit by a few miles per hour is far less dangerous and certainly not something for you to get all bent out of shape over if it causes you to be stressed.
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