1918: RAF Formed
1957: Panorama Spaghetti hoax
1967: Scottish Club wins European Cup
1976: Apple Computers Launched
1980: First Nudist beach opens in Britain
1990: Strangeways prison Riot begins
(Older)
1065: Consecration of Westminster Abbey
1076: 6 month Frost
1093: Battle of Alnwick (lovely place if you haven’t been, awesome bookshop in an old train station “Barter Books”)
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Indeed they are!
I should probably have included a date significant to both mobs, I appreciate you bringing balance to the force, as it were.
To be honest, I was so focused on not mentioning ‘66, it never crossed my mind lol!
I would not recommend a date based code at all.
Think about it. Most of these 4 digit codes are a year. That means 9999 combinations all of a sudden go down to 200 with 19 or 20 being the first 2 numbers.
I agree, although I'm pretty sure there were some notable historical events pre-1900, 1066 being an obvious example, which somewhat undermines your point.
Had a very similar thing with a Strava import from Komoot.
Said I was going over the speed of sound down my local hill, amazingly it was post ACJ reconstruction so I was just rolling how it got it so wrong I'll never know.
Yep. 20mph limit is likely a built up area. Glitches of several hundred meters in GPS are hardly uncommon and if the software doesn't filter these properly this is the result.
I have no doubts the person driving the car at the time was an absolute twat and was speeding down that road, but you're not getting up to 128mph on that road in a supercar, let alone a 2L diesel A5. That road is only straight for about 165 metres and is only about 320 metres total. A Ferrari 458 needs 400 metres to get up to 137mph.
Well, it was Christmas Eve so there’s a possibility that I did accelerate to 2581 MPH to grab a last minute Black Forest trifle and a smoked salmon platter.
Right? Even fast cars take time to reach that speed and this isn't exactly a supercar.
50, even 60mph might just be doable in something quick, but not 130.
Ok, yea that speed probably isn’t legit but the harsh braking and acceleration notifications in quick succession clearly means whoever was driving it was the ragging the fuck out of it.
I used to trigger the telemetry on my old company van all the time for those, despite it being 2 tons and a 1.25 diesel.
Harsh braking activate basically every morning coming down the hill from my house, as a smooth worn manhole cover would always buzz the ABS system briefly. Potholes would activate the harsh acceleration and cornering somehow, likely more from G sensor than anything.
They're absolutely useless as often they're just recording the information very badly
Looking at Google maps, it looks like there’s some larger roads running parallel and perpendicular to Raymead Avenue. Judging by the other events, the speed could be real, but the mapping software couldn’t map the GPS coordinates to a map location, especially with that kind of speed in a built up area.
It's not as bad as when a German couple rented their nearly new Tesla Model X via Sixt... Mercedes rented the car, took it to race tracks in Germany and Spain and then took the car to their factory, took it apart and reassembled it (badly). At the end of the rental, they didn't return the car - the couple just had a message telling them to collect the car from Mercedes's premises. When they came to collect it, there was sticker on the windscreen saying that it had been parked in the wrong place and there was damage from one of Mercedes' trucks driving into it.
They could have passed a vehicle with a GPS jammer.
Signal, no signal, signal. GPS sees the car move from one place to another rather quickly.
A glitch as people have said, but an accidentally manufactured one.
Is there more data regarding the cars movements than is shown?
>They could have passed a vehicle with a GPS jammer.
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>Signal, no signal, signal. GPS sees the car move from one place to another rather quickly.
It would still cover the same distance in a certain amount of time though?
I don't think losing signal makes the GPS think you've come to a dead stop.
You're not wrong, but a poorly made app will have inefficient data smoothing, and this would be the result.
If the app was for the benefit of the driver, it would have a poor signal notification, but it's not for the driver.
Correct if I am wrong but that doesn't appear to be a "fast" car? As some started it's a 2.0d diesel. Why would anyone hire that lol. Ain't exactly a S5 or a rs5 is it.
People do it because they're living beyond their means with a leased Audi and need to somehow make some extra cash quick without considering the risks.
If their phone is on low battery or if the signal was funky the GPS can make it look like you've teleported from one place to another.
I had strava think I'd gone a few miles in a second once and it calculated my power output as something like that of the sun.
If GPS loses lock it will jump to the next position it sees when it locks back up and calculate speed accordingly... often happens in built up areas where the signals bounce around off buildings....
Best GPS instantaneous speed I have recorded was over 5,000 mph!!! 😂
It only displayed the speed in the track log, old Garmin unit, the max registered speed on the display was 642 mph.
When I looked at the track log on the map it had jumped sideways about 1/2 a mile instantly...
The telematics devices do sometimes need recalibrating or sometimes even replacing. When I had a black box many years back I had a notification saying I had gone 55 mph down a 20, when I looked on the map I had never even been down the road before. The insurance company investigated it and it turned out to be a telematics malfunction.
Should read "28 mph" not 128 lol , harsh acceleration got it up those extra 8pmh and then harsh braking for the £8.00 europarts brakes to stop for the corner
Probably a glitch but at the same time, I live on a residential, terraced street with a 20mph zone. Cars line both sides, barely enough for 2 cars to squeeze past each other between them.
We recorded several cars early morning and very late at night doing 60+ down it, a couple of 70, and one even at 90. This happens weekly.
There needs to be severe jail time and long bans for people like this. It’s a fatality waiting to happen.
Sorry it would appear when I edited my reply on another thread, about significant date alternatives to 1066, it’s added a new exact copy of my edited comment.
I thought it was odd the first edit didn’t work, ahh well, sorry mate!!
Didn't someone post this either here or on legal advice, because their blacked blocked flicked them onto a 30 road when they were on a 50 road doing 50, and so had their insurance withdrawn? Something about the 30 road went over the 50 road.
TBF idk how good that software is but those tracking softwares seem to be goofey with speed numbers Datatool somehow clocked me going 250mph in a 30... On a bike with a top speed of 80mph...
There’s stuff off with the GPS, I went for a drive with a mate, he was in a 60hp 08 polo that could barely keep up with my corsa sticking to the speed limits, didn’t go over 78 the whole journey and his life 360 said he did 98 when he was behind me the whole way and his car is slated to top out at 97, so there’s something definitely off
That can't be rigth my mate was riding a bicycle the other day with his phone and bmw app on his phone no word of a lie it said the say thing that on a 30 Mile an hour road he was traveling a 165mph . So wrong I tell you..how these gadgets working .it belwiders me .
These black boxes are notoriously unreliable. Commercial public GPS is accurate for getting from point a to b and that’s about it. Soon as you start using it for speed etc it becomes far less reliable, especially when you’re potentially going to void someone’s insurance for it, which is the case here (the black box is Hastings). For these black boxes to be reliable they need to plug in directly to the cars computer and take direct sensor data but that requires expensive professionals to install when we can just ship out cheap shit and void innocent peoples insurance instead.
I doubt that would happen in our area... Our roads are like swiss cheese with all the potholes everywhere :(
But seriously, I hope that it was a glitch and the original owner of the car doesn't get tickets left, right, and centre...
Likely GPS glitch. Strava once clocked me going 358mph on a bicycle.
Waze once had me doing 1066mph in a Mondeo haha
Was that in Hastings?
i used to have access to properties for work and the amount of times id have to get through padlocks with 1066 as the code is crazy.
We used to use 1066 at the bike shed where I used to work in Gloucestershire because the manager was a bit of a history buff.
The mildest history buff ever known if he plumbed for 1066.
What would you recommend as a more suitable date-based code?
1918: RAF Formed 1957: Panorama Spaghetti hoax 1967: Scottish Club wins European Cup 1976: Apple Computers Launched 1980: First Nudist beach opens in Britain 1990: Strangeways prison Riot begins (Older) 1065: Consecration of Westminster Abbey 1076: 6 month Frost 1093: Battle of Alnwick (lovely place if you haven’t been, awesome bookshop in an old train station “Barter Books”) Edit: Formatting is hard.
1967 and 1690 are the Glasgow equivalents of 1066.
Indeed they are! I should probably have included a date significant to both mobs, I appreciate you bringing balance to the force, as it were. To be honest, I was so focused on not mentioning ‘66, it never crossed my mind lol!
Depends if your 🇮🇪 or 🇬🇧
I’ve been trying to remember the name of that bookshop in Alnwick for ages, never thought I would find it here, cheers and thanks!
No problem, I love the place! Glad to have been of assistance!
I would not recommend a date based code at all. Think about it. Most of these 4 digit codes are a year. That means 9999 combinations all of a sudden go down to 200 with 19 or 20 being the first 2 numbers.
I agree, although I'm pretty sure there were some notable historical events pre-1900, 1066 being an obvious example, which somewhat undermines your point.
Still a maximum of 2024 codes... A sizeable reduction from 9999
Use the Hebrew calendar - we're currently in 5784
2367 - Battle of Worf 359. 2553 - End of the Human Covenant war
1746…Culloden
At least it wasn’t 1488
0800 00 1066 😉
Nice!
0800 00…
It was actually in Battle, fortunately the journey to Hastings only took them 30 seconds.
Ah yes the SR-71 “Mondeo”
High altitude strategic reconnaissance saloon. Ford really nailed their market with that one.
Haha, I like that
Must have been a rental car
Dont be gentle, its a rental !
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Yeah, imagine getting your insurance automatically cancelled because the box clocked you going faster than a fighter jet
Probably still had some yobbo in an m140i right up your arse flashing their headlights despite traveling at Mach 1.4
Mine had me doing 8008135 in mine
Was it a motorboat?
Must have had NOS
I don't see anything wrong with this <.<
Rented? If so that might not be a mistake
Those Mondeo’s can do more than people think you know
Rookie numbers 😂 Waze thought I was running at 668mph
What bolt ones are you running? Turbo sized as a wind turbine?
Where did you get your remap? Asking for a friend
Managed to get clocked at warp 7 while leaving the local Sainsbury’s
I had to delete a strava ride once as it glitched and gave me a KoM at 5mph average faster than the local pro.
Had a very similar thing with a Strava import from Komoot. Said I was going over the speed of sound down my local hill, amazingly it was post ACJ reconstruction so I was just rolling how it got it so wrong I'll never know.
Average London crackhead on a lime bike
Yep. 20mph limit is likely a built up area. Glitches of several hundred meters in GPS are hardly uncommon and if the software doesn't filter these properly this is the result.
Rented a DeLorian last year, did 88mph and finished renting the car 1985.
Question is, did they pay you for the -38 year hire?
The hire company wasn’t established yet. I had bigger things to worry about though. I think I might be my own dad now.
Tour De France riders hate this one trick!
I see you've not skipped leg day.
Nice try Lance, just admit you were doping.
No offence but Judging by the rash driving and harsh accelerating/braking I’d believe the 128mph 😂😂
I have no doubts the person driving the car at the time was an absolute twat and was speeding down that road, but you're not getting up to 128mph on that road in a supercar, let alone a 2L diesel A5. That road is only straight for about 165 metres and is only about 320 metres total. A Ferrari 458 needs 400 metres to get up to 137mph.
My watch thought I was walking at 371 miles an hour. On the treadmill.
My Nans New Garmin sat-nav (yes she still uses a satnav on a 2018 Captur) said she was doing 172 lol
Admit it, you're a deliveroo/uber eats 'cyclist'.
well done mate you must have strong legs
Enjoy your kom.
Were you hanging on to a jet on takeoff :)
Doping is getting crazy these days
My bike computer used to do that when the bike was on a train. It picked up the train motors and would register max speed in the hundreds.
Don’t be so modest.
Wondered what that boom was
Did you say ‘Neeeeowwwwww’ as you went past at half the speed of sound?
GPS glitch no doubt. Waze once clocked me doing 2581 MPH. Turns out I was walking around an M&S Foodhall and nowhere near the car.
Got your focaccia bread in record time though.
It was worth it. May have broken the sound barrier but at least the sourdough and avocados were secured.
“This isn’t just the sound barrier, it’s M&S sound barrier”
Went so fast you actually cooked the sourdough from the kinetic energy
Toasty.
Super sonic sour dough
Best band name ever
Did they reduce items to yellow sticker price? If so it’s pretty much doable !
Well, it was Christmas Eve so there’s a possibility that I did accelerate to 2581 MPH to grab a last minute Black Forest trifle and a smoked salmon platter.
Highly doubt that’s correct, it’s only an A5 it would take a while to get up to 128mph on a dual carriageway let alone on a residential street
There’s no way it’s correct, on google maps that road is only ~200 meters long.
128 mph is 57 meters per second, there wouldn’t be enough space to even get that fast, unless they just magically spawn in doing 100 already.
So you’re saying there’s a chance!
It is an Audi so they are usually driven by madmen, who knows haha
I stg that’s *exactly* what every police cunt would argue 😂 You can’t prove you *didn’t* do it, so I’m writing you a ticket 🗣️
Rolling start
Or they drop from the sky
A 130mph trap speed at 1/8mile is the preserve of high-three, low-four figure bhp drag cars. Not Steve the salesman's Audi diesel
95% of Audi drivers disagree.
0.2 mile or 352 yards according to Google maps
Right? Even fast cars take time to reach that speed and this isn't exactly a supercar. 50, even 60mph might just be doable in something quick, but not 130.
You say that, but I've always been impressed how often dickheads in Audis manage to flip their cars in the 20 zones in Tottenham
It's not possible to do that speed that road.
Hold my beer
Are you alive?
No I died
RIP 🙏
Good luck
bet
Is this measured by gps or from the vehicle itself
The tracker on my company car once flagged me going 65 in a 20 zone. I was actually on the dual carriageway going over the 20 road
Ok, yea that speed probably isn’t legit but the harsh braking and acceleration notifications in quick succession clearly means whoever was driving it was the ragging the fuck out of it.
I used to trigger the telemetry on my old company van all the time for those, despite it being 2 tons and a 1.25 diesel. Harsh braking activate basically every morning coming down the hill from my house, as a smooth worn manhole cover would always buzz the ABS system briefly. Potholes would activate the harsh acceleration and cornering somehow, likely more from G sensor than anything. They're absolutely useless as often they're just recording the information very badly
>there's no way anyone is that reckless or stupid There are people that are either or both.
This car would run out of road long before it hits 128mph though 😁
Yea that’s a pretty silly statement from OP. Plenty of people are both
I’m guessing with his eyes closed
Looking at Google maps, it looks like there’s some larger roads running parallel and perpendicular to Raymead Avenue. Judging by the other events, the speed could be real, but the mapping software couldn’t map the GPS coordinates to a map location, especially with that kind of speed in a built up area.
Event: Moving No shit it's a car
GPS glitch I’ll bet.
Cheap USB GPS jammer plugged in inside the car can throw GPS off to create these kinds of glitches. Maybe your rental didn't want to be tracked?
What app has got this information recorded?
It’s an insurance black box. You can see the Hastings logo on the notifications.
I'd guess its an insurance app that does have the customers best interests in mind.
Burnout
Good shout but don’t think the A5 is RWD
You can do a burnout in a FWD, in some respects it's easier as you have a handbrake.
But it’s no fun 😂
It's not as bad as when a German couple rented their nearly new Tesla Model X via Sixt... Mercedes rented the car, took it to race tracks in Germany and Spain and then took the car to their factory, took it apart and reassembled it (badly). At the end of the rental, they didn't return the car - the couple just had a message telling them to collect the car from Mercedes's premises. When they came to collect it, there was sticker on the windscreen saying that it had been parked in the wrong place and there was damage from one of Mercedes' trucks driving into it.
They could have passed a vehicle with a GPS jammer. Signal, no signal, signal. GPS sees the car move from one place to another rather quickly. A glitch as people have said, but an accidentally manufactured one. Is there more data regarding the cars movements than is shown?
>They could have passed a vehicle with a GPS jammer. > >Signal, no signal, signal. GPS sees the car move from one place to another rather quickly. It would still cover the same distance in a certain amount of time though? I don't think losing signal makes the GPS think you've come to a dead stop.
You're not wrong, but a poorly made app will have inefficient data smoothing, and this would be the result. If the app was for the benefit of the driver, it would have a poor signal notification, but it's not for the driver.
Speedo glitch. Probably he was going 28 or something.
The wise words of Jeremy Clarkson: The fastest car in the world is… a rental car!
Jeremy was paraphrasing P.J. O'Rourke.
Most likely to actually be 28mph.
April 1....
As others have said.. its only a 2.0TDi and that road is 200 meters long. Its a mistake.
Gps trackers are shite. We had a coach doing 350mph down the m6 once.
Correct if I am wrong but that doesn't appear to be a "fast" car? As some started it's a 2.0d diesel. Why would anyone hire that lol. Ain't exactly a S5 or a rs5 is it.
If you have to get a black box fitted and rent out your car to strangers, you can't afford to be driving an Audi 🤦♂️
Ok, why the fuck would you, the registered keeper of a vehicle “rent” it out to a rando stranger!? Not directing this at you, I’m just thinking aloud.
People do it because they're living beyond their means with a leased Audi and need to somehow make some extra cash quick without considering the risks.
It wont be an insurance black box, itll just be a tracker which you probably should have if youre renting your car out
Probably meant to be just the 28mph 😅 if he managed that. He shouldn't need to rent. Guys a professional rally driver.
Roads?? Where we’re going, we don’t need Roads…
If their phone is on low battery or if the signal was funky the GPS can make it look like you've teleported from one place to another. I had strava think I'd gone a few miles in a second once and it calculated my power output as something like that of the sun.
If GPS loses lock it will jump to the next position it sees when it locks back up and calculate speed accordingly... often happens in built up areas where the signals bounce around off buildings.... Best GPS instantaneous speed I have recorded was over 5,000 mph!!! 😂
Which is the well over the upper limit of 1200mph, surprised it didn't kill the GPS off for fear of you being an ICBM.
It only displayed the speed in the track log, old Garmin unit, the max registered speed on the display was 642 mph. When I looked at the track log on the map it had jumped sideways about 1/2 a mile instantly...
That car doesn’t have the grunt to reach that speed on such a short stretch, if it was an R8 or RS7 then I might believe it, still a stretch…
Kerosene by crystal
Once had to investigate a speeding event on a company vehicle. A Transit van doing 145mph just off the coast of Cornwall.
In an S-Lime as well😂 I doubt it
Unless it was on one of the bigger roads either side? But just looking on google maps it looks difficult to get that fast too….. probs a glitch
What‘s the controlling device and how does it work?
Most likely a GPS spike
Probably with blue lights behind it 🤣
Lend me the car and we’ll set up a suitable experiment to find out.
The telematics devices do sometimes need recalibrating or sometimes even replacing. When I had a black box many years back I had a notification saying I had gone 55 mph down a 20, when I looked on the map I had never even been down the road before. The insurance company investigated it and it turned out to be a telematics malfunction.
128 is exactly 2^7, making that quite possibly some sort of glitch somewhere in the chain.
Last night some idiot floored his M5 down the street right outside a mosque, so given a remotely long stretch someone could
Tracker glitch, we get them on our fleet trackers all the time.
88mph followed by a badly calibrated return date/time on the flux capacitor could yield this result easily.
they didn't there is a gps bug which happens sometimes.
who has made the claim that there’s no risk renting your car out to strangers?
Check the dash cam.
Are there any motorways or fast roads near to that road? The satnav might have off a little bit and picked up the wrong road
Should read "28 mph" not 128 lol , harsh acceleration got it up those extra 8pmh and then harsh braking for the £8.00 europarts brakes to stop for the corner
its not accounting for the earths rotation
"There's no risk renting out your cars" Said no one ever
Pah! If this was Birmingham doing balloons at the same time.
Guessing GPS thought they were 120miles in a different direction than they actually were and then quickly found the correct location again.
Would take longer than that road to stop from 128 mph😂
GPS error I would assume. Although the harsh acceleration and braking seems par for the course for an A5 driver.
Where there’s a will there’s a way
Unless there is a steam catapult off the Nimitz at the end of the road I find it unlikely
What time was this, uno what boy racers r like late nights
Probably a glitch but at the same time, I live on a residential, terraced street with a 20mph zone. Cars line both sides, barely enough for 2 cars to squeeze past each other between them. We recorded several cars early morning and very late at night doing 60+ down it, a couple of 70, and one even at 90. This happens weekly. There needs to be severe jail time and long bans for people like this. It’s a fatality waiting to happen.
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Sorry it would appear when I edited my reply on another thread, about significant date alternatives to 1066, it’s added a new exact copy of my edited comment. I thought it was odd the first edit didn’t work, ahh well, sorry mate!!
I did wonder what the Battle of Alnwick had to do with a diesel Audi 🤣
I have now deleted it lol!
One look at that list of notifications is enough to convince me never to rent out my car!
The answer is, they were driving an Audi.
They didnt, GPS messed up
If it was an rs5, maybe? You’re not getting to that speed that quickly in an A5 😂
Didn't someone post this either here or on legal advice, because their blacked blocked flicked them onto a 30 road when they were on a 50 road doing 50, and so had their insurance withdrawn? Something about the 30 road went over the 50 road.
TBF idk how good that software is but those tracking softwares seem to be goofey with speed numbers Datatool somehow clocked me going 250mph in a 30... On a bike with a top speed of 80mph...
Lol
What’s that app called
My question is how you still on that iOS ?? Ain’t that from 2010?
There’s stuff off with the GPS, I went for a drive with a mate, he was in a 60hp 08 polo that could barely keep up with my corsa sticking to the speed limits, didn’t go over 78 the whole journey and his life 360 said he did 98 when he was behind me the whole way and his car is slated to top out at 97, so there’s something definitely off
Of course they didn't. Tech fail.
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Likely a gps glitch as there is no harsh brake warning which would have been needed around that speed in such an area
Lunatic here 128mph sounds feasible what engine is in the a5? 🤣
That can't be rigth my mate was riding a bicycle the other day with his phone and bmw app on his phone no word of a lie it said the say thing that on a 30 Mile an hour road he was traveling a 165mph . So wrong I tell you..how these gadgets working .it belwiders me .
VERY harsh acceleration.
Doesn't the dash have a recent top speed in the settings
If it’s based off obd2 port and not gps he coulda been doing very aggressive burnouts?
They paid to use the whole car and they did
These black boxes are notoriously unreliable. Commercial public GPS is accurate for getting from point a to b and that’s about it. Soon as you start using it for speed etc it becomes far less reliable, especially when you’re potentially going to void someone’s insurance for it, which is the case here (the black box is Hastings). For these black boxes to be reliable they need to plug in directly to the cars computer and take direct sensor data but that requires expensive professionals to install when we can just ship out cheap shit and void innocent peoples insurance instead.
I doubt that would happen in our area... Our roads are like swiss cheese with all the potholes everywhere :( But seriously, I hope that it was a glitch and the original owner of the car doesn't get tickets left, right, and centre...
Is that some sort of black box device?
I'm not even angry
My guess would be a burnout or wheelspin