Can anyone argue against this statement....

[Yakattack]

It there was a device on sale that you could take into a department store that would tell you where the security cameras were and the position of all the store detectives, people would say it was wrong but isnt that what Sat Navs do in a way? Why do we have signs saying that there are speed cameras in the area? why not change them to show what speed you should be driving if you speed you deserve to get caught. By the way I dont drive could explain my stance but isnt breaking the law breaking the law??

[stoofur]

I think there is an argument that speed cameras are not supposed to catch you speeding. They are a safety device that is supposed to slow you down. So if you know where they are you will slow down.

[paddywak]

As stoofur says the devices are there,supposedly,make you slow down not to catch people speeding though of cause they do.The relevant authorities are obliged by law to warn people where cameras are in use even mobile ones. Here in Notts for instance the information is posted on line and no doubt other counties do the same. They don't have to tell you were the info is they just have to be able to say it in the public domain
http://www.nottspeed.com/camera_locations.php

[Prudie]

Shame this is in 2 places
http://www.theanswerb.../Question1142320.html

[Toureman]

Yes, it's a silly statement, as is your other one on here.

http://www.theanswerb.../Question1142320.html

[TWR]

By the way I dont drive could explain my stance but isnt breaking the law breaking the law??

A moment of lack of concentration can get you a speeding tkt like a few on here may have found out, 3 weeks ago was my first EVER tkt for going into a village that USED TO BE 40MPH now 30mph, that was a total lack of Concentration, I think the courts should use their discretion regards these fines. but if the offender was a regular, let the punishment fit the crime.

[chas2008]

dont shops legally have to inform you that there are surveillance cameras in operation ?? which surely amounts to the same thing,a deterent.

[dave50]

The reason for speed cameras is to slow you down, so if you know they are there and you slow down then they have done their job. If they are hidden and people are unaware of them and continue to speed, then they are pointless and are just a money making machine.

[joko]

but dave you shouldnt need to be told to slow down. you should be doing it anyway.

yaka - i think the store detective analogy is a bit tenuous and pointless, but yes although i have been caught twice by speed cameras going very small amount over the limit i absolutely accept that if i hadnt been speeding i would not have been caught

i am always amazed by people who get all irate and indignant at speed cams as though they have done nothing wrong and its all a big con.

the notion of them just being a warning is daft - we all know that many people slow down just before, for about 100m until they pass - then speed up again - so they have failed as a warning system.

the only way to make people obey the speed limit long term is to make them think they could be flashed at any time without any warning...

[joggerjayne]

As you'd know if you'd had to do the Speed Awareness Course, like err ... me

=0(

... then you'd know that there are no "speed" cameras ... only "safety" cameras.

(ahem ... bo!!ocks)


But, the point is, as has been said ... they are not there to catch speeders.

(bo!!ocks, again!)

They are there to "calm" the traffic.

So a Sat Nav or Road Angel tells you where you should be calming you car ...

... and thus ASSISTS the speed (sorry, "safety") cameras.

[paddywak]

Joko, a stretch of the A614 near where I live has just had the speed limit reduced to 50mph running from Ollerton to Nottingham, not only that but they have fitted average speed cameras along it's length to stop the "Slow Down/Speed Up" drivers

[jomifl]

I do get annoyed by signs that tell me there are speed cameras but they don't tell me the speed limit. I can be driving along an unfamiliar stretch of road with a 60 mph limit so there are no speed limit signs, I see a speed camera sign so to preserve my licence I slow down to 40 mph to the annoyance of drivers behind me, what would you do?

[joggerjayne]

Just never wash your registration plate.

[paddywak]

Like Jayne, I too have recently done the speed awareness cause, in fact the guy doing the course gave us the site I entered in my first post so we could keep an eye on where the mobile cameras are going to be sited.