Speed cameras
Felt like coming here and expressing my views on speed camera's.
Now my opinion has always been that if you obey the law and stay at or under the speed limit camera's shouldn't concern you. People moan that they're just a money making scheme for the police, but the police can only make money because people break the law. Normal law abiding citizens begin ranting about the unjust nature of speed cameras. I never understood how they could make the argument. Surely if people break the law they should be punished in some way?
I still feel pretty much the same bar one thing I now realize that we are overly dependent on them. Speed camera's will generally catch people who are passing through an area or people who are feeling a little absent minded. This doesn't catch the worst offenders though, the people who live in the area and know the locations of cameras. These people will happily speed around fully secure in the knowledge that they know where the camera's are.
I will never be against speed camera's if you speed you should be punished but I don't believe they can solve the problem of speeding.
If it were up to me I'd but restrictions on engine sizes and little chips in the cars and all speed limit sign posts which will make it impossible to speed. If you're caught bypassing the chips you risk heavy penalties.
I'm sure no one likes that idea but it's the only way I feel we can solve speeding.
posted by Dan at 2:42 PM
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"If it were up to me I'd but restrictions on engine sizes and little chips in the cars and all speed limit sign posts which will make it impossible to speed. If you're caught bypassing the chips you risk heavy penalties."
Way to piss off a few million car enthusiasts and forcably remove every classic car built before 1985.
98% of cars that are a) built before 1985 and b) certain car engines, including most diesels, dont have an ECU, and installing devices to forcably limit revs would cost millions.
What needs to change is attitudes towards speed, enforcement and timing of the country.
Hundreds of studies have been done in the USA to try and kerb traffic congestion and the best way they found was staggering buisnesses and starting times. For instance, Florida I think it was forcably staggered starting times, making public workers, bin men etc, and shops and cafe's etc, start at one early time, 7 i think, then they made schools start later at 9.30, then allowed buisnesses to stagger and to start from 9.30 up until 10.30.
Not only did they find that morning childcare was better, the fact that the kids could get up later (they started at 8 am in the states)made them more attentive at school and the major 8.45 traffic jam halved in time and size because each buisness starte din roughly 15 minute intervals. They think about driving totally differently over there and we could learn a lot from them. Probably one of few things we could learn!!
You're solution settles traffic jams.
And as far as pissing people off. I wouldn't care. We spend too much time trying to please everyone which is impossible. We need a dose of good old communism. We need to do something for the good of all the people.
And ok so everyone wouldn't run the country like me, so you just start putting limitors on every new car, in ten years the problem will be sorted and in the mean time if you have an un restricted vehicle it makes you easier to spot if you speed.
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