They don’t. Realistically everyone knows where they are especially because map apps tell you, so they do whatever speed they want, slam on their brakes right before the cameras, crawl past them at ridiculously low speeds, get out of range, and then just go right back to doing whatever speed they want.
Sure it often slows things down a bit right in the corridor where the cameras are but if it was ever actually about safety, we would be using physics to slow cars down rather than cameras. Even in those corridors usually people are more focused on the camera than the road at that point so if anything its a distraction that makes people drive unsafely.
Red light cameras may be a different story but I doubt it
so they do whatever speed they want, slam on their brakes right before the cameras, crawl past them at ridiculously low speeds, get out of range, and then just go right back to doing whatever speed they want.
if it was ever actually about safety, we would be using physics to slow cars down rather than cameras
That’s why average speed cameras are now the preferred traffic calming measures on long roads. You can’t avoid ¯v = ∆s / ∆t, you have to stay under a certain speed while you’re between cameras.
Agreed, but think every car should have monitor that just stops you from speeding (with a manual override button for very necessary occasions). Every override is checked by the local government where you did it and your license is taken if you used it without a proper reason. Then speed cameras become unnecessary and we can eliminate like 90% of US cops whose only possible positive impact is causing drivers to be cautious with speed
Fuck that. Speeding is a fake crime invented to criminalize large swathes of the population. They don’t even have a scientific process for setting speed limits - they just build a road, see what speed people naturally drive on it, and then set the limit to 80% of that number.
To be clear, “driving dangerously,” including going much faster than the surrounding traffic, is and should be a crime, but “speeding” as we currently define it should not.
Possibly speed cameras are good because they keep people safe?
Feel free to disagree. I’ve put zero thought into this.
They don’t. Realistically everyone knows where they are especially because map apps tell you, so they do whatever speed they want, slam on their brakes right before the cameras, crawl past them at ridiculously low speeds, get out of range, and then just go right back to doing whatever speed they want.
Sure it often slows things down a bit right in the corridor where the cameras are but if it was ever actually about safety, we would be using physics to slow cars down rather than cameras. Even in those corridors usually people are more focused on the camera than the road at that point so if anything its a distraction that makes people drive unsafely.
Red light cameras may be a different story but I doubt it
That’s why average speed cameras are now the preferred traffic calming measures on long roads. You can’t avoid
¯v = ∆s / ∆t, you have to stay under a certain speed while you’re between cameras.Agreed, but think every car should have monitor that just stops you from speeding (with a manual override button for very necessary occasions). Every override is checked by the local government where you did it and your license is taken if you used it without a proper reason. Then speed cameras become unnecessary and we can eliminate like 90% of US cops whose only possible positive impact is causing drivers to be cautious with speed
Fuck that. Speeding is a fake crime invented to criminalize large swathes of the population. They don’t even have a scientific process for setting speed limits - they just build a road, see what speed people naturally drive on it, and then set the limit to 80% of that number.
To be clear, “driving dangerously,” including going much faster than the surrounding traffic, is and should be a crime, but “speeding” as we currently define it should not.