Beware... I saw a couple of coppers setting up a speed camera this morning... it was hidden inside a wheelie bin at the edge of the road in someone drive!

What will they think of next?

That is sneaky. In Luzen the radar is now 30 meters or so in front of the camera so spotting the camera at the last minute & braking may no longer work! And of course now there are so many of them in the tunnels there that you send most of your time looking at the speedo intstead of the road, hardly safe .

something I find really odd is that it seems everyone speeds on the roads here. My husband sticks to the speed limit especially as we still have english plates on our car and don't want t get caught up in the importing issue just yet. Anyway the point being that every one passes him, we feel like pensioners on a sunday drive whenever we go anywhere, but reading a lot of the threads it seems the Swiss don't take speeding lightly yet it seems most people on the roads don't take any notice

Live fast. Die Young.
or
Drive slow in built-up areas to negotiation those tram and pedestrian traps (like at the end of your road) and fast within reason on the motorway. Speed doesn't kill, inappropriate use of it does.

dave

UAVs with ISAR radars or Laser Designators. You can run, but you can't hide...

dave

I don't dispute what you are saying, we have been sticking to the speed limit recently until we get the car fully imported and since sticking to it have noticed that no one else does, and it just surprises me when it seems there are lots of speed cameras around and sneaky hidden ones at that

Hey Nicky,
You had problems yet with the English plates? I am also here on foreign plates and wondering how long I will get away with it. I don't see the point in changing the plates on a right hand drive car since I will have to change them back to sell the car at home anyway (don't think anyone will buy a right hand drive car here) and I don't intend on staying in Switz forever!!!

Only had problems once at the border, we've been here 14 months but intended to sell the car eventually, we've now decided to keep it and import it, we do have till Dec of this year though before we legally have to import it but with the issues we had at the border we thought it best to do it now.

anyway sorry for this being off topic mods!

Hi Eire,

You probably want to hop on over to a thread like this one for that discussion. You'll also find quite a few that deal with UK cars in Switzerland as you browse the threads in the driving section.

Nah. It'd be the sudden deceleration that'd kill you.

I just hope that once the designator acquires you the UAV driver pickles the camera button, not the other one...

could you please explain more.
I am also looking for speed cam database.

It was more of an inside joke, related to the fact that laser designators are used for target designation and the fact that UAVs come now in armed versions.

I often feel like the Sunday pensioner being bullied by 16 year old testosterone filled boys with new drivers licenses when I'm on the roads here. Speed limits or thereabouts aren't good enough, one must fly past everyone, and of course drift into the lane close enough to annoy at the same time as passing.

Have you ever driven in Italy?

Definitely not! I refuse to!

(and I drove in the NYC area, commuting daily in a car, for 12 years)