Surely having one in your car defeats the whole object of making people stay at a safe speed. Now people can speed as much as they like without fear of being caught because they can be forewarned of forthcoming speed cameras. Personally, I think speed camera detectors should be banned - not speed cameras themselves.
2006-12-24 00:01:21 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Safety
I agree, does defeat the object.
2006-12-24 06:31:49 · answer #1 · answered by merlin_81 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The vast majority of drivers already have a camera detector installed in their vehicles. It's called sight and memory! The vast majority of commuter journeys use regular routes, on which drivers know where every camera is placed. In between the cameras, so far as I can make out, it's business as usual, and the average traffic speed goes up to 35mph or 45mph, plus another 5mph at night when the roads are quiet. Except in very cirtical areas and near schools, I fail to see what contribution speed-cameras make to safety on the roads, because if they have to be sighted on roads where at least three deaths have occured, it is only a statistical game, and will eventually lead to the total surveillance of every vehicle, every minute of the day, and the total control of the police-state we are rapidly becoming under this weak and ineffective government. Maybe THAT is what Mr Reid wants, in addition to being the next Prime Minister.........what a scary thought.
2016-05-23 03:40:18 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think its detectors that can detect laser type speed detectors like the mobile cameras and handheld ones that may be banned, not all camera detectors. That would mean ALL GPS operated equipment would have to be banned. Ambulances, Fire, Aircraft Military units, even Police use GPS, so I do'nt think they GPS will be banned.
I have used one for sometime and there have been two occassion when they saved a pedestrians life, one on a blind bend, my detector announced BLACK SPOT ahead as I did not know the road when I slowed down and went around the bend there was a pedestrain in the middle of the road in the process of crossing it. The second was near to a school (without) 20mph signage in a village in a dip in the road. Its pedestrians that need banning to even think about crossing near to a bend that they had local knowledge of for being dangerous.
2006-12-25 00:02:46 · answer #3 · answered by phil b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Given that the REAL purpose of speed cameras is to generate income, not to improve road safety -- sod the buggers!
If anything, speed cameras probably REDUCE road safety. I've noticed that speeds -- especially on secondary two-lane roads --have dropped well below the legal 60 MPH as people are afraid of being done for speeding by the flaming speed cams. This increases the likelihood of someone trying to overtake just to maintain legal speeds and any time you overtake you're taking a calculated risk. It's bloody frustrating to get stuck behind some plonk rolling along at 50 MPH who is more concerned with avoiding speed cameras than actually driving safely.
2006-12-24 04:33:43 · answer #4 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The government says speed cameras are placed at dangerous areas of a road to try & minimise accidents. Therefore 'officially' speed camera detectors are not marketed to help you dodge the fine but to forewarn you of an accident blackspot. Apparently speed camera detectors are going to be banned next year.
2006-12-24 00:11:35 · answer #5 · answered by la.bruja0805 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Personally, I think speed camera detectors should be banned - not speed cameras themselves."
That's because you are an evil fascist. Don't be surprised when five years from now you find yourself in a cattle car on the way to a "re-education camp."
Fascism-ask for it by name.
2006-12-24 03:22:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Speed cameras are placed at accident black spots ... and not, we are told, in high revenue areas. If this is the case then making sure that you are aware of these "high accident" areas is good? Making mobile camera detectors illegal is just a way of making more money to spend on ??????? ..... you tell me where the money goes and i'll back you all the way with cameras (fixed and mobile).
2006-12-24 00:06:05 · answer #7 · answered by JOHN W 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The point of a speed camera is to extort money from the already extorted motorist!! I f the government wanted us to slow down, cars would be governed, but if our cars were governed our fuel bills would drop by 2!/3 rds that would be a massive decrease to the tax we pay on fuel!!
2006-12-24 00:28:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I think both should be banned. And while I am here, let me say that I am sick to death of all you people that are trying to nanny me to death. I want my fast car, I want my motorcycle with out a helmet, I want transfat greasy fries and a 16 oz T-bone steak with a large side of gravy and potatoe salad. I wanna smoke and drink til I pass out. This planet did really fine for thousands of years, but now the nammby pamby weaklings somehow are trying to emasculate all the alphas and make being a whiney loser thenorm. I say to hell with that.
2006-12-24 00:11:32 · answer #9 · answered by netnazivictim 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
of course they should be banned!- i don't know how they were ever accepted! personally, i think they need to get hidden cameras set up all over the place, so that people don't know where they are. Surely with todays technology they don't have to paint giveaway lines on the roads to detect a vehicles speed?
2006-12-24 00:07:08 · answer #10 · answered by leon 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
too late,cameras banned in Ohio
haha
2006-12-24 00:10:39 · answer #11 · answered by b 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋