Speed Cameras

[Joe G]

Don't know if this has been posted before but here goes

http://www.speedcam.co.uk/game.htm

Joe

[scoobyit]

Don't know if this has been posted before but here goes

http://www.speedcam.co.uk/game.htm

Joe

Seen this before but cheers for posting as it's good to refresh your mind... they really are sneeky

Would much prefer to see on the job police work i.e. traffic cops pulling people anf educating rather that taking a photo and sending a fine...

It does not stop, tail gaters etc

[mystery machine]

Fun game, cheers for posting.

Curious how well-attuned the brain becomes to everyday 'hazards' - in this case the back end and double-smoked windows of a white van...

I remember the days when you could devote most of your thinking time to watching out for a child or on old person stepping into your path, or a car pulling out of a blind side street... Now we have to keep ourselves otherwise occupied, looking for surveillance traps in the bushes, crater-sized potholes on the road, traffic islands jutting out randomly into the road, and speed bumps that weren't there the last time you drove up that road

It does not stop tail gaters etc

Very true.

[ur.a.bus]

the spanish 1 was a bit sneaky

[StrikE]

a bit sneaky

And every UK one is down right sneaky

[mystery machine]

Yet someone will always be willing to step forward and declare, "but speed cameras save lives!"

OK - and so would a 25mph speed limiter on all cars, so would a mandatory jail sentence for anyone caught driving 1mph over the speed limit... but where do you stop? Tricky thing is striking that fine balance between 'nannying' and 'personal freedom'. IMHO, we've moved too far in favour of the former.

Personally, I'd rather see more traffic cops policing the roads judiciously and intelligently - not just sent out with a quota of speeding tickets to hand out each month (I'm not saying that's necessarily how they work at the moment). But then bobbies and patrol cars cost money, whereas speed cameras generate revenue... Hmmm - accountants in charge again?

[Joe G]

Yet someone will always be willing to step forward and declare, "but speed cameras save lives!"

OK - and so would a 25mph speed limiter on all cars, so would a mandatory jail sentence for anyone caught driving 1mph over the speed limit... but where do you stop? Tricky thing is striking that fine balance between 'nannying' and 'personal freedom'. IMHO, we've moved too far in favour of the former.

Personally, I'd rather see more traffic cops policing the roads judiciously and intelligently - not just sent out with a quota of speeding tickets to hand out each month (I'm not saying that's necessarily how they work at the moment). But then bobbies and patrol cars cost money, whereas speed cameras generate revenue... Hmmm - accountants in charge again?

I agree that i'd rather see more police patrolling the streets! A few weeks ago i saw someone smashing into the back of the a car infront as it pulled into the slow lane and slammed its breaks on because it saw the speed camera at the last minute.

And speed cameras are supposed to save lifes???? I'd like to know how many accidents they have caused.

Don't get me wrong, if you are speeding and get caught then its your own fault. But then again the reason that there is so many cameras is the fact that the print money faster than a mint!!!

[mystery machine]

I'd like to know how many accidents they have caused.

Quite - it'd certainly put a whole new perspective on things if it transpired that someone had been seriously injured or killed because of a speed camera

Being a little less dramatic about it, I certainly wouldn't be surprised if they're prone to causing shunts like the one you saw. I've seen some Gatso sites where the road was awash wish skid marks - and that just can't be good...

Of course, your speed camera advocate will tell you that average-speed cameras are the answer to such Gatso-induced erraticisms... My answer to that would be that average-speed cameras don't take account of road conditions, i.e. it could be perfectly safe to drive above the speed limit on a given road if the surface is dry, visibility is good and the traffic is s p a r s e*. Conversely, it could be very dangerous to drive on the same road, 10mph under the speed limit, in the pissing rain during rush hour, while tailgating the car in front. Not that the roadside average-speed cameras would give a monkey's about that, mind.

Technology isn't even nearly advanced enough to do the job of a well-trained traffic cop.

* I had to space the characters out like that to stop the forum auto-sanitiser from censoring the 'a r s e' part 's p a r s e'! Big brother strikes again!!!