Ron needs your help members - can you drive your car at 5 mph constantly?

I asked this question in another thread, but I really would like your help.

Can you drive your car constantly at 5 mph?

Please only use this thread (I will delete all other 'unrelated' posts/answers so please don't be offended) to respond to my specific question, and be as accurate as you can please. I will likely use this little survey in Court!

It's a simple question ...can you drive your car constantly at 5 mph? Yes/No answer with a qualifying response will be okay. Something like...I could but it juddered to a halt, I stalled it etc. Thanks dear friends.

I'll give it a go tomorrow Ron and let you know. I would imagine you would have to be in either 1st or 2nd and very gradually take your foot off the 'go fast' pedal until you are just running on basic tick over but even that might a bit above 5mph

I'd say a qualified, yes. Without a laser gun at the front of the vehicle, I think anyone would be hard pressed to judge what speed you were really doing i.e.  4mph,  6 mph and your speedo won't tell you, and with their margin of error allowed, it could still be incorrect if it read 5MPH, and you'd likely be doing less. According to several sat nav's I've had, all my car's speedos have over-read the speed by 2 MPH, assuming the GPS speed reading is accurate.

The qualification being you'd have to be trying pretty good to, as I'd done on the UK bus driving championships where you had to drive about 50 mtrs at a stated low speed--say 7 mph--with a laser on the front of the bus operated by the police and penalty points for every MPH you were off the stated speed which they also wanted constant for the distance covered, and to make it interesting, the speedo's were covered over.

A 5MPH speed limit on a highway would seem a bit unusual, but if so there's a few things to consider.  If it's 5 MPH Zonal area, then it should have speed humps/cushions to make it self policing.

If there is street lighting i.e. a built up area, if 5 MPH speed limit for any lenght, it would need repeater signs to remind you it's 5MPH and not 30 MPH it otherwise would be.

Ditto if no street lighting, but to remind you its not 60MPH ( single-carriageway.)  If only one sign, it has to be on the drivers side of the road.

Our local council has had an illegal 20 MPH speed limit for years when they removed the left side sign and only a sign on the right exists, thus the signage is illegal and the speed limit doesn't exist and is really 30 MPH ( built up area) despite the right side saying 20 MPH. 

But remember this is private property Paul. The Site owners make the rules here, although they still have to comply with Regulations.

There are all sorts of questions to be addressed yet, and this is not going to go away anytime soon.

Solicitors have today threatened Don as the home owner, despite the fact that they already knew he is very ill and were told not to contact him. They are a despicable bunch of b......s and I am not letting them get the better of me, Don and/or the other site residents, some of whom are clearly afraid of this scumbag.

Please just try to drive at 5 mph and let me know what happens. Thank you to all who have responded thus far.

Ron, the fact is that, unless the vehicle is fitted with the mythical perfect speedometer and that it registers speeds as low as 5 mph (8 Km/h) then it is not possible. It is possible to drive at a constant speed only if there is some kind of speed control fitted because one's foot generally can't stay steady enough. I used to be able to do it with my 4X4 using low range and just allowing the engine to tickover but even then I don't think it was possible to determine exactly what the speed was because the speedo was certainly not accurate at that speed.

With the aid of satnav you could measure the speed accurately of course but again, 5 mph is so low that even a slight downgrade would push it up a bit.  In short, maybe not impossible but very, very difficult to achieve

I hope that helps Ron.