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::There aren't many places on the earth where there is now speed limit, surely. I'm all for leaving this award as it was. -- [[User:UnwiseOwl|UnwiseOwl]] 10:47, 24 March 2009 (UTC) | ::There aren't many places on the earth where there is now speed limit, surely. I'm all for leaving this award as it was. -- [[User:UnwiseOwl|UnwiseOwl]] 10:47, 24 March 2009 (UTC) | ||
:::Yeah, I think the point of the achievement was to go "really fast" through the hashpoint - "at the maximum (legal) speed" was included to not encourage speeding and to avoid people taking risks just to be faster than the previous record holder. Therefore, when there's no enforced speed limit (which I'm sure the creators of the achievement didn't think of), falling back to the advisory speed (or within measurement accuracy of it) should be acceptable. Just "driving a vehicle through the hashpoint" certainly is too vague. --[[User:Dawidi|dawidi]] 10:55, 24 March 2009 (UTC) | :::Yeah, I think the point of the achievement was to go "really fast" through the hashpoint - "at the maximum (legal) speed" was included to not encourage speeding and to avoid people taking risks just to be faster than the previous record holder. Therefore, when there's no enforced speed limit (which I'm sure the creators of the achievement didn't think of), falling back to the advisory speed (or within measurement accuracy of it) should be acceptable. Just "driving a vehicle through the hashpoint" certainly is too vague. --[[User:Dawidi|dawidi]] 10:55, 24 March 2009 (UTC) | ||
| + | ::::No, I think it shouldn't be winable there at all. Then again, I don't realy mind, I'll never get to go that fast being an Aussie. It's probably up to you europeans to work out.-- [[User:UnwiseOwl|UnwiseOwl]] 10:56, 24 March 2009 (UTC) | ||
Revision as of 10:56, 24 March 2009
Think we can add a bit about making sure the road is clear before trying this? If there is a geohash on a road, there's always the possibility that someone is going to be standing in the middle of the road with a GPS just around that blind curve up ahead....
Copyright issues?
The Acheivement page has an ongoing discussion as to whether to stick figure images should be favored. Since this award uses a copyrighted image, I clipped the XKCD Mario Kart comic for a race car, as a suggested alternate. I'm not taking sides, just doing the work. -- Jevanyn 20:25, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
Greatest Speed Racers
Has anyone attempted the slowest or fastest Speed Racer? The Speed Racer for 2009-03-21 45 -108 is at a stop sign, so the maximum legal speed is a complete stop... David Souther 15:59, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
- No, a stop sign is no maximum speed limit. You are allowed to drive the same speed as everywhere else, as long as you manage to stop your car once. -- relet 17:02, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
I added a speed section to the Speed Racer Ribbon Template so we can figure out how to compare speed racers. David Souther 22:28, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
German Autobahn
There's a potential problem with the wording "at the maximum (legal) speed" on the Autobahn in Germany - unless a stretch of road is marked specifically as having a certain speed limit, there is only a "recommended (maximum) speed" of 130 km/h, but no legal speed limit. While some cars may go easily to 250 km/h (an experience I don't care to repeat), that is still not "the maximum legal speed", since there is none. So, what speed is acceptable for the achievement in this case? I hope it doesn't have to be in excess of R 17 ;-) --dawidi 12:55, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
- If there is no speed limit, then you're in the wrong place to gain this achievement. -- relet 13:16, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
- There aren't many places on the earth where there is now speed limit, surely. I'm all for leaving this award as it was. -- UnwiseOwl 10:47, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
- Yeah, I think the point of the achievement was to go "really fast" through the hashpoint - "at the maximum (legal) speed" was included to not encourage speeding and to avoid people taking risks just to be faster than the previous record holder. Therefore, when there's no enforced speed limit (which I'm sure the creators of the achievement didn't think of), falling back to the advisory speed (or within measurement accuracy of it) should be acceptable. Just "driving a vehicle through the hashpoint" certainly is too vague. --dawidi 10:55, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
- No, I think it shouldn't be winable there at all. Then again, I don't realy mind, I'll never get to go that fast being an Aussie. It's probably up to you europeans to work out.-- UnwiseOwl 10:56, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
- Yeah, I think the point of the achievement was to go "really fast" through the hashpoint - "at the maximum (legal) speed" was included to not encourage speeding and to avoid people taking risks just to be faster than the previous record holder. Therefore, when there's no enforced speed limit (which I'm sure the creators of the achievement didn't think of), falling back to the advisory speed (or within measurement accuracy of it) should be acceptable. Just "driving a vehicle through the hashpoint" certainly is too vague. --dawidi 10:55, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
- There aren't many places on the earth where there is now speed limit, surely. I'm all for leaving this award as it was. -- UnwiseOwl 10:47, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
