And where did this pearl of wisdom come from? I'm not aware of any laws that are not meant to be enforced rigorously. Many aren't, of course, but that is more often than not a resource issue. If the technology was there to detect tail-gating drivers or drivers using mobile phones, then it would be used. Unfortunately it's only speeding that easily lends itself to automatic detection.
That's not strictly true as I've mentioned elsewhere. Certainly traffic officers in cars tended to use their discretion on whether to book or not - but officers using hand held devices (which have been around for many years) were encouraged not to. They would set a margin (just like with Gatsos) of say 10 mph and any driver exceeding that margin would be booked. The difference is that officers operating hand-held devices may stop drivers travelling below the margin (let's say at 37 mph) and give them a ticking off - whereas a Gatso would simply ignore any drivers travelling below the set margin. This might give the impression that police officers were more magnanimous but it's really a false impression.
It was never meant to be the case that a simple drive to the shops
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But it has no need to does it? A reasonably cautious driver should be capable of getting to the shops and back without speeding! I can do it - why can't they?
Uno-Hoo!
