Maybe just drive the speed limit?
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thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 days agocameras do NOT make the roads safer. it’s a revenue stream based off ripping off it’s citizens. if anything everyone slams on their brakes when they see one causing more accidents.
rbesfe@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 days ago
yes, because no one has ever gotten a ticket or in trouble for something they didn’t do.
celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
This is such a bland nothingburger of an argument. Don’t follow the law because…sometimes police give speeding tickets to people who weren’t speeding?
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 days ago
no one said not to follow the law, but there are always exception. nothing is ever just black and white.
EndlessApollo@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Better argument than “if you have nothing to you have nothing to fear”
then_three_more@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Except they do make it safer and because there’s always tonnes of signs around them you don’t get the brake slamming. They act as a deterrent.
Mobile speed traps, however, are a definite revenue boost.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 days ago
they do not post camera signs in US
then_three_more@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Maybe you guys ought to campaign to get the law changed. They used to be grey over here, but pressure was put on the government and how they’re all high vis yellow with loads of warnings before them.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 days ago
how about just not ripping off people for doing 37 in a 35?
If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class. if it were a percentage of your annual income, completely different story.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I don’t want the law changed where I live, because these cameras are prohibited!
Several states in the USA prohibit speed cameras and traffic light cameras, because a citizen must be able to face their accuser when accused of a crime. This is a great example of freedom in the USA, where we do not let machines automatically issue fines against human beings.
celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Give it up, bro. Everyone here wants to circlejerk that breaking the law is cool.
then_three_more@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It only seems to be since the yanks woke up.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 4 days ago
American driver entitlement is the purest, most potent form of entitlement.
I don’t know if you knew this, but with regard to US Interstates, there’s a common saying that goes “nine you’re fine, ten you’re mine.” It’s essentially saying “under 15 kph you’re fine, but over 15 you’re busted for speeding”. That is, if you want to exceed the already quite high speed limit, you should feel safe doing up to 9 additional mph over that. And they’re actually not wrong; many police literally don’t enforce traffic law up to that point, or they only do so if they really have a bee in their bonnet. In large part this is because nearly everybody driver’s doing it, which is one of the main reasons why cameras are useful: it doesn’t have to stop your car, ask if you know why it pulled you over, listen to you try talking your way out of a ticket, be subject to human biases such as ethnicity, gender, and personality in determining whether to let you go with just a warning or not, and generate enough paperwork to disincentivize the enforcement of traffic law as written.
Except in a school zone, if you get pulled over doing within 5 mph (8 kph) of the speed limit, it’s seen by drivers as a huge power trip and something you should gaslight the court into believing you didn’t do, and from 5–10 mph, it’s basically seen as getting unlucky. The state of speeding in the US is so dire that even asserting that speed limits should be enforced as marked is something that will get you shouted down.
gmtom@lemmy.world 4 days ago
They litterally demonstrably do. Either actually engage your brain and loom things up instead of parroting nonsense or take your bullshit back to reddit.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Why is this unfounded argument getting upvoted so heavily? Objectively the science says that it reduces injuries and deaths. Per the linked Cochrane systematic review of 35 studies:
People on the Internet will just upvote the most confidently incorrect shit as long as it has enough confidence behind it and it vaguely aligns with their preconceptions, I swear.
jballs@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I think the sentiment against them stems from the fact that there are ways to reduce speeds without feeling like they’re being used as a revenue stream.
Personally I like when there are warning signs saying “Speed camera in use ahead” since it has the effect of slowing down traffic and not feeling like a “gotcha” moment.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It should feel like a “gotcha” moment, though, or it only properly enforces speeds near the speed camera. If you can’t be certain that you’re not going to run into a speed camera but you have a general understanding that they’re around, you’re going to be much more likely not to speed in general versus just when you see the sign telling you to slow down. The reduction in speed from the sign is still better than nothing, but it lets drivers compartmentalize where there are “safe” zones to speed, and that partly defeats the purpose.
jballs@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Hard to say. That study you linked mentions reductions in speed and crashes in the vicinity of the camera, which to me indicates that people are only slowing down because they know a camera is there. I suppose someone would have to do a study to see if speed cameras reduce speeds and crashes in areas where there aren’t currently cameras, but have been in the past. Meaning that people are slowing down in areas where they think there might be cameras.
Stez827@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Honestly msost people speeding are not putting anyone in any more danger than going the speed limit. They are just going the speed that feels correct for the road which is often correct for the road.