No law is perfect, but you have so start somewhere. I don't mind this law, but I'm under no illusion that it will make our roads any safer. I hope it will, but I doubt it just the same. Enforcement of traffic laws is all about revenue streams, not actually making safer drivers. If we truly wanted people to be better drivers, we would spend the collected revenue to educate people.
For example, when a traffic accident occurs, what do we hear? How many cars crashed, where it happened. How many people were injured or killed. Are we told how it happened? Are we told how to avoid such situations? If that interestion ever made safer? Very rarely. No education is involved, so much for learning from our mistakes. Why do officers site just over the crest of a hill when setting up speed traps. Does that makes drivers safer? Does it prevent accidents? Of course not, it's put in the most advantages spot to make the most revenue.
Now Photo radar is the biggest chicken shi* system there is. If speeding is really killing people, then pull the person over, give them a ticket, put some fear into them. Getting a ticket in the mail has ZERO incentive to stop speeding, aside from the financial aspect. So instead of us slowing down, we drive exactly the same and hope we don't get nabbed. Or we are on the look out for a van on the side of the road, see one and slam on the brakes.
How about this, next time I see a photo radar van, I put a big sign a few hundred meters up road that says, "SLOW DOWN PHOTO RADAR". I bet you every single person will slow to the speed limit. Safety first! Everyone slows down, the roads are safer. Exactly what the system is there for, right? Oh but sorry, no revenue so if I did that, I'd be arrested.
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