It does amaze me how many people I've met who have a vicious hatred towards speed cameras. Especially interesting e: in a country where people have so much respect for the police.

What about vodka, is that needed?

And they fucking work!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/annoying-thing-speed-cameras-ottawa-they-work-1.6786951

https://driving.ca/column/lorraine/speed-cameras-work

I can't believe that people don't want to see them installed in every school zones at least, if there's one place where you don't want people speeding it's there!

"It's a road design issue!" Yeah? What's cheaper and can be done quicker, changing the road design or installing speed cameras?

They also can't testify in court, depriving accused speeders of their constitutional right to due process.

But back to your first claim: "gotta enforce speed limits:" No, we do not. Speeding is a symptom of a street that was designed wrong to begin with. The correct solution is to fix the design, not install a speed camera as some sort of big brother band-aid.

Edit: why do y'all apparently hate the idea of improving street design? As a former traffic engineer, I'm telling you that that's the only way to truly fix the problem of speeding. I don't get why that's controversial.

5.5lbs of copper is apparently about 20$ worth

sir this is a shitpost

Even better solution though: (re-) build the street at a school zone so that no driver more sane than the most insane Florida Man would not fathom driving any faster than 20 km/h, no speed cameras required.

Perhaps you're not the intended target audience, then.

are you sure? There's only 1 way to find out

Birds aren't real

No it's not. Speed is a very significant element of road safety. At lower speeds, you can stop in a much shorter distance, and if you hit someone their chance of death or serious injury goes way down. Braking distance is proportional to the square of velocity, and reaction distance is directly proportional. If hit at 50 km/h, a pedestrian has a 90% chance of death. At 30 km/h, they have a 90% chance of survival.

At lower speeds, you're also far more likely to notice something that might require you to stop or slow. Your cone of vision at 60 km/h is 40°. At 80 it's 30°, and at 100 km/h it's 20°. A different source I found says under 50 km/h it's 104° and at 65 it's 70°. Whatever the specifics, lower speeds are much safer.

This isn't to say that speed cameras are the best or should be the only method used to ensure road safety. Narrowing roads, adding furniture by the roadside, and increasing the complexity of the route, are all good ways to reinforce a lower speed limit by reducing how safe drivers feel driving at high speed. But speed cameras are a useful supplement to that, for those drivers determined to be irresponsible.

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