Just wanted to add my thoughts about speeding in the UK, and especially speed cameras.
Its my personal belief that speed cameras do NOTHING in regards to saving lifes lost due to dangerous driving.
I mean, I could be drunk, smoking a spliff, reading a newspaper, cutting my toenails, or curling my eyelashes (er, i don't do this by the way!), or playing my PSP, or surfing the internet on my laptop, YET, as along as I'm driving below the speed limit, then thats okay because the speed camera doesn't know that im doing so.
So whats the more dangerous then? People who driving a few miles over the speed limit on an empty motorway at 4am in the morning, or people doing the things i mentioned above in busy traffic?
I'm all for putting speed cameras and speed bumps near schools but on any other road, they just smack of revenue generation.
Most people I know, on the sight of a camera, will just slow down, and speed back up again - is that a deterrent? I don't know. Can all road deaths be simply put down to people driving fast or are there any other factors in this?
Maybe through better education of drivers, and increased Police presence, then road deaths can be cut (2003 = 3508 deaths Department of Transport figures), but I just don't think speed cameras are the way to do this.
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Yea. Fair point. But then I don't think it's fair to refer to speed cameras as a Government Stealth Tax like some people do. Guy in the metro today made a very good point about that. If we want to stop giving the government money, all we got to do is slow down. Food for thought eh?
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