Speed Cameras to get camouflaged?

steve!_10

I think some people are lumping people that break the speed limit in the same bracket as lunatics. I often go faster than the speed limit, and I've got 3 points in 4 years, but I still speed. The primary function of speed cameras is to slow people down. So why, if after being caught once, am I still speeding?

Completely ineffective.

southernscouser

movieman wrote:

Nonsense: the numerical value of your speed is almost entirely irrelevant to driving safely. Someone who can judge the safe speed for the road and never looks at their speedo is far safer than someone who drives along making sure they're always 1mph under the speed limit.

Just coz I say they should be aware of the speed they are driving at I don't at any point say that they are safer drivers than those who drive 1mph under the speed limit. Whats nonsense about that?

It was a reply to someone who slams their brakes on when they suddenly see a speed camera because they aren't aware of what speed they are doing!

southernscouser

steve! wrote:

I think some people are lumping people that break the speed limit in the same bracket as lunatics. I often go faster than the speed limit, and I've got 3 points in 4 years, but I still speed. The primary function of speed cameras is to slow people down. So why, if after being caught once, am I still speeding?

Completely ineffective.

Because you, like myself, take the risk. We can argue that speed limits aren't relevant to modern day but thats a totally different discussion.

At the end of the day, a speed limit is law. Break it, get caught, get punished.

Murphy_The_Cat

southernscouser wrote:

Just coz I say they should be aware of the speed they are driving at I don't at any point say that they are safer drivers than those who drive 1mph under the speed limit. Whats nonsense about that?

It was a reply to someone who slams their brakes on when they suddenly see a speed camera because they aren't aware of what speed they are doing!

or what the speed is for the road that they are on ??

also, if Scameras have to have a sign publiscising their prescence within (I think) 1/2 mile, why can't they have an applicable speed limit posted at the same time to advise drivers of what the limit actually is (usually obvious in rural areas, not always obvious in outer urban areas).

MTC

southernscouser

Murphy_The_Cat wrote:

or what the speed is for the road that they are on ??

also, if Scameras have to have a sign publiscising their prescence within (I think) 1/2 mile, why can't they have an applicable speed limit posted at the same time to advise drivers of what the limit actually is (usually obvious in rural areas, not always obvious in outer urban areas).

MTC

Thats a very valid point and one I totally agree with! Your making it out to be my fault that it's not! :rotfl:

southernscouser

albertross wrote:

to do that, you must be constantly looking at the speedo, or have a very controlled foot.. A half of a millimetre of foot movement is the difference between speeding and not speeding, no-one can maintain that precision, not even my cruise control.

One extra glance at the speedo, when a kid walks out from behind a car is the difference between life and death.

You edited your post after I replied. Your right it does only take a small movement to take speed up. I don't deny that. But your point was that you nearly crashed because someone slammed their foot on the brakes when they saw a speed camera. Now clearly the difference in speed between his/her approach and getting there could be 20mph or more. This is a major difference to adjusting your speed by 1 or 2mph!

Murphy_The_Cat

southernscouser wrote:

Thats a very valid point and one I totally agree with! Your making it out to be my fault that it's not! :rotfl:

hi s s

no I didn't mean it that way. I meant it in a much broader, general context.

The posts are already there, the "scamera" sign is already there, so why not have a speed limit repaeter on there as well ?

MTC

xycom1

Dead_Eye_Jones wrote:

Speed kills...

No, staring at your speedometer all the time to make sure that you don't go 1mph over the limit kills.

geo555

Speed cameras have NEVER stopped a drunk driver, have NEVER stopped a car being driven with no insurance or NEVER stopped an unroadworthy car.
Poor road engineering causes more deaths, but that doesn't produce any income.

rdwarr

Is everybody a bad driver sometimes in my book? Yes. I certainly am sometimes but I see a lot worse
The point is, if there were fewer bad drivers there would be fewer accidents. And if those of us tempted into "badness" had good reason not to go there rather than driving in apocalyptic 9/8 time we'd be better off too.