Speed Enforcement At IAM meeting 1655

Okay. Perhaps someone should design a speed camera that stops taking photos when there's only 2 photos left, to leave room for the second calibration check. That would allow 396-400 = 99% of the film to be used, catching 198 speeders. In fact I highly doubt that hasn't already been done, so I don't see where the 14% figure came from. Unless he was trying to say that at any one time only 14% of camera housings have working cameras + film in them, which I could believe.

I agree with sensible speed enforcement. That is, prosecuting drivers who are driving at an unsafe speed -- NOT prosecuting drivers who are exceeding what is often a meaningless number. The government appear to have decided that enforcing unrealisticly low speed limits is an appropriate way to deal with reducing standards of driving, whilst I think it will merely make the problem worse, until everyone drives bang on the limit all the time, 2ft from the car in front. Hell. We're almost there already.

Well, I was just going on the examples from things like "World's Wildest Police Video's", although scraping 10 years worth of cop car footage for the wildest bits isn't exactly a representative sample, I admit.

I understood that, but I took it to mean that laser detectors (be it your eyes or a special gizmo) don't stop you getting done because by the time they only warn of the laser, it's too late.

OK, so which out of the list of points you posted do you agree with? Why do you think speed limits and enforcement are a good thing? Or more to the point, what changed your mind?

-- David Taylor