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This problem is so widespread you would need a lot of cops. Frankly I’d rather have things like automatic cameras than police posted at every intersection. Lo
by javagram 7y ago
This problem is so widespread you would need a lot of cops.
Frankly I’d rather have things like automatic cameras than police posted at every intersection.
Look at how stuff like speeding works. Putting cops on the highways just makes people alert each other on waze to slow down in one specific area.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoThat's why I'm in support of automated linear speed checks absolutely everywhere.
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoYou mean interval speed cameras? I'd be fine with that if we first can have a conversation on speed limits. It seems on the road network places put in interval cameras and drop the speed limit by 10+mph. On motorways we get a de facto 80mph road going down to 50, regardless of conditions and traffic flow. That seems way to extreme a limitation IMO. Though if the trains were cheaper it wouldn't bother me!
- TeMPOraL 7y agoYeah, I mean the contraption that identifies you at two points of a straight segment of a road and fines you if your average speed between the points exceeded the limit. Sure, we should have a conversation on speed limits. I know some places use them as revenue sources, and this would have to disappear. But speed limits are sometimes (usually?) set for safety reasons too. And we can't move forward on getting the speed limits set to safety-optimal values while almost all drivers completely disregard them. This is one case when I'm supportive of metaphorically beating the drivers into submission, so that they start following the law, and traffic engineering can be done under assumption that people follow the law.
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoAgreed, TeMPOraL for PM!