Herbert wrote:
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I must admit, I enjoy travelling at 250+km/h, but that's in the air where there aren't any speed cameras around.
As for the roads, I generally travel with the flow of traffic. Quite often I'll speed up or slow down for traffic flow and/or safety reasons.

Saying that speed is the number one killer isn't as correct as they tout it to be. Most accidents occur at or below the speed limit and are mainly due to distraction or a lack of concentration.

So, there's a point against fixed speed cameras already - They are quite a big distraction. You often get people slowing to stupid speeds around them, and it's not a good idea to be watching your speedo and overhead gantries when you should be concentrating on the road.

But let's say I wanted to speed.
It's simple if you know the location of fixed speed cameras. Police presence will probably be cut down around them, so you're more likely to get away with it than if they weren't there at all.
Also, speed cameras don't lessen the desire for (mainly 18-30yr old male) people to speed. I get bozos tearing around my streets at all hours. Some of them even get into the park across the road and do donuts all over the joint.
But do the cops care about complaints? No, their resources are too stretched to be patrolling neighbourhood areas.

Still, the media ads press the point of how much these cameras are supposedly doing to make our roads safer. Other factors such as better roads and more advanced safety features on cars don't even rate a mention.

People are becoming so dependent on this nanny state mentality that they believe any garbage that gets shoved down their throats at the expense of their own judgement.
Just because a speed limit sign says 80km/h, it doesn't mean that it's safe to do that speed in all vehicles and in all conditions, however, the majority of clowns these days would do that speed driving a tractor in a snowstorm, after 4 beers and 14hr work shift, such is their reliance on what nanny states.

Yes, a lack of common sense is the biggest danger on the roads.

http://news.drive.com.au/drive/motor-news/speed-not-the-big-killer-20121221-2bqb...

I think if you are going just a few Km over the limit there is probably no intent and you should not be penalised.
If you are doing 15km over the limit there is intent and you should take your medicine.

Driving is a nightmare for me, I want to drive right on the speed limit (conditions permitting) because that is a courtesy to other road users, not to hold them up.
I also don't want to speed.
My problem is when I am driving I often miss the myriad of speed limit changes. ( I tend to watch the road and other hazards)
My GPS is not 100% accurate and showing the speed limit

What I would like is colour coded line markers or paint dots to identify what the speed limit is.
I would never get caught for speeding if they did that.
(maybe thats why they dont do it)

I never much like speed cameras, but after my wife received a $100 fine for going 52km/h at 3:58pm, I absoluetley hate them.  (the limit in school zones is 40km/h from 2:30 - 4pm, even though kids are around for only ~15 minutes)

Nothing to do with safety, everything to do with $$$.

Of course 'speed on it's own' doesn't kill,  I would imagine even the dumbest person would know that the vehicle needs a driver who whilst in control of the vehicle is driving in excess of the speed limit.......ergo Speed does kill if the driver is an idiot. I think that the authorities would assume that the vehicle isn't driving itself.  I have no time for revenue raising, but equally I have no time for numpties who speed and put other people's lives at risk.

John Smith wrote on May 22^nd, 2013 at 9:11am:


Yes you seem to post a lot of them.....monkey Spanker.

... wrote on May 22^nd, 2013 at 8:23am:





School zones are clearly marked.

Most cars have a clock.

If you don't go over the speed limit, you don't have to pay out any $$$

If you do go over the limit, your money is spent on various road safety programs.

I can't see a problem.

Amadd wrote on May 22^nd, 2013 at 10:12am:



That's what they say:

"A third of the money collected from speed and redlight camera infringements goes into the Road Trauma Trust Fund and is spent on various road safety programs."

http://www.police.wa.gov.au/Traffic/CamerasCutCrashes/Camerasworkwhy/Cameramyths...

To be honest, I don't really care where the money goes: none of it is mine.

I've found a sneaky little way of getting out of paying speeding fines: I don't speed.