1. Why does everyone drive 10-15 miles above the speed limit?

  2. Why don’t we raise the speed limit if that’s how fast everyone wants to go?

  3. Why is traffic enforcement given to very expensive and ineffective police instead of cheaper and more automated traffic cameras?

  4. Why do we refuse to ever use ANY traffic calming measures? Yes, than you flashing digital sign for telling me I’m going 10 miles above the limit on this incredibly wide and straight and flat road with high curbs and perfect visibility.

It’s a serious confusion I have about how society is supposed to operate because it seems like a complete and total breakdown of logic and sense.

And, yes, I know there’s some thing people did long ago to set the speed limit at some percentile of what people were already traveling at, but that’s obviously a stupid way to do it and we did it anyway. So why?

  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 day ago
    1. Why is traffic enforcement given to very expensive and ineffective police instead of cheaper and more automated traffic cameras?

    Fuck. Off. With. Your. Surveillance. State. Bullshit.

    • atx_aquarian@lemmy.world
      9·
      1 day ago

      We had a driver for a trip near London. The driver was driving quickly, but then slowed before getting to a speed-averaging camera checkpoint, saying how they weren’t going to catch him speeding.

      I thought about it, I did. But I can’t justify that logic. If you can’t cross that line until a certain time (or else get a citation), then you’re not speeding unless you break that rule. If you speed up and then slow down to average-out your speed, you’re just driving bad, not saving time.

      Anyways, I was just amused that they had a system that seemed more foolproof, and yet it wasn’t accomplishing its intended goal for this one driver. That was just one person, I know.

      • Schlemmy@lemmy.ml
        3·
        23 hours ago

        Exactly. And that why these average speed zones are more effective in enforcing speed limits. Most people get the point and grasp the idea of average speed.

        By the way, I’ve been driving in England for several weeks over tge last moths. They drive like idiots over there. And I must admit we Belgians aren’t the best drivers either but damn…

        I was amazed by the courtiousness I’ve encountered on Slovenian and Montenegrin roads. The contrast is huge.

    • Nighed@feddit.ukEnglish
      16·
      23 hours ago

      There are still plenty of old fashioned speed cameras, no surveillance required.

      • BigPotato@lemmy.world
        6·
        23 hours ago

        I know what you’re trying to say but literally any camera is surveillance. It takes pictures/video of a given area. It provides overwatch in lieu of a human. It just surveils for a specific thing.

        That data can be used for other, nefarious, purposes and Americans tend to hate that unless it’s a private company doing it.

    • Schlemmy@lemmy.ml
      17·
      23 hours ago

      Automated speed or red light camera’s aren’t the same as the invasive ANPR/ALPR crap.

      We have red light camera’s for ages. They only register when someone runs a red light. That’s used to be a hoge problem when I was young. These days it’s non existent.

      Same for speed enforcement camera’s. You don’t speed, you’re not under surveillance.