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Originally Posted by northwind
Nice one Carsick  All perfectly logical, in a completely screwed-up way.
I dunno... I can see the point about increasing speed cameras, in certain areas.. The facts about the chances of survival in a pedestrian vs car collision at 40 compared with 30 do speak for themselves, so I reckon speed in residential 30s should be controlled as tightly as possible... I saw someone say once put a speed camera outside every school, and that i'd agree with.
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Now to play devils advocate here, have you seen the TV ad with the kid , broken bones, telling us all if she was hit at 30 she had an 80% chance of surviving and at 40 an 80% chance of not, well me question would be, what the f**k is she doing in the road in the first place
I've no problem with speed limits if they make sense (at 3 pm I'm the guy doing 15 mph going past the school, terrified one of the mums is going to kill me
), but speed cameras are 24hrs and disregard weather or road conditions, so surely going passed a school is safer at midnight as no-one is there? so why should it be 20 mph.
I temper my compliance to the legalities of road use, with a good measure of common sense, much the same as most motoring laws, a dark visor is illegal, but on a bright winters day, I'm not prepared to risk my life and those around me by using a clear one and compromising my observations.
Speed cameras only tell me someone thinks there's a hazard ahead, so I look for it, if it's there, I'll react, if not it's a skills teat, fast as you can up to it, heavy braking before the first marker, straight on the gas at the last one.
Now that should get someones back up
Cheers Mark.