I expect simple behaviours here. Friendship, and love. Any advice should be from the perspective of the person asking, not the person giving! We have had to make new membership moderated to combat the huge number of spammers who register
Location: England
Registered: September 2006
Messages: 304
Nigel
I only scored 9, in the u.k. you are advised to drive within the limit.
they now use averaging cameras, you stand a very great chance of getting caught.
This revenue is very important it helps build the war chest.
If only they caught as many real crooks as they do poor motorists, what a wonderful county we would have.
Location: Worcester, England
Registered: January 2005
Messages: 1560
jack wrote:
> If only they caught as many real crooks as they do poor motorists, what a wonderful county we would have.
Oh, I agree. Make all speed limits advisory-only.
BUT if a driver travelling over the advisory limit caused or contributed to an accident, they should be held liable on a strict eye-for-an-eye basis. So if they cause a broken back to their victim, they should themselves be run over, have their back broken, and not be allowed access to medical services for however long it took an ambulance to reach the victim of the original accident. (I am indebted to the late Robert Heinlein for this idea).
The alternative - which I do actually prefer - is to recognise that car drivers are in charge of potentially lethal weapons, and that restrictions should be placed on their use. This is I think precisely similar to not being allowed to fire a shotgun within a specified distance of a public highway (even if pointing the gun away from the road).
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13796
Speed is not, of itself, a deciding factor in road deaths or injuries. Inappropriate sped is, however.
The simple solution is a camera location device in the car. This will not help the police who have a quota to meet, but will help with many of the machines.