Speed Cameras to get camouflaged?

waster_2

What is speeding? Exceeding an artificially created limit often set by officials solely to generate income? Or, exceeding a limit often set many years ago when the technology required you to throw a 5 ton weight from your car to stop it in less than 100 yards from 25mph? Or, doing 30 mph in a 30 mph limit in thick fog and/or driving rain. Or driving at 70 mph on a motorway on a bed of thickly packed and iced over snow. Or driving at 80 mph on a clear moonlight night a 2.00am on a near empty motorway? Or, driving at 30 mph in a 30 mph limit residential road as a large primary school is finishing for the day on a cold, misty, wet December afternoon. Or, ...........................

Need I go on? Speed in itself does not cause deaths, injuries or accidents. Inappropriate speed is the problem. And, as has been said many times before cameras cannot, and never will be, able to deal with inappropriate speed. They can only operate at a predefined artificially determined limit.

Whilst the original intention when allowing the installation of cameras was to prevent death and injury I defy anyone to now demonstrate that, in the main, they are anything but revenue generating cash cows for greedy authorities. Perhaps someone can explain why in many situations these cameras are installed at the same time as the speed limit is reduced on a stretch of road. Often without any justifiable or sustainable reason. I can show dozens of cameras that have been installed where accidents are supposed to have occurred due to speeding. Whilst I probaly could not say that speeding cars were involved in accidents, that is only part of the picture! Often the speed was as the result of the attitude of the driver who could not care if there was a camera there or not. So the camera is worthless in preventing the boy racer, uninsured, unregistered idiot driving at 50 mph in 30 mph during the rush hour. But it will get any motorist driving at say 35 mph at midnight on the same but clear and empty road. They will be hung by their own stupidity of registering their car and otherwise being lawful.

Inappropriate speed is the problem - the thing that experienced and dedicated police traffic officers use to deal with by using their discretion, knowledge, common sense by taking in to account, amongst other things, the prevailing conditions. Unfortunately we now live in the biggest big brother state in the world. Speed cameras are only one aspect of how you are monitored!! CCTV, debit/credit cards, Oyster cards in London, loyalty cards, using a PC. You are currently and will constantly have been tracked by all of them! Wake up and smell the coffee. We are all being exploited by the system under the guise that it is good for us. Really?

gord115

According to South Yorkshire police only 4% of serious accident are caused buy speeding, most are bad drivig.
Tailgating at the speed limit or talking on a mobile at the speed limit is much more dangerous than driving at 10mph above it with an alert driver and both hands on the wheel.