2007-06-22 11:45:45 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Mordent, I think you need to go to my other question.
2007-06-22 21:16:24 · update #1
Rubbish. The majority of cameras are placed in positions solely to catch a person unfairly just to increase revenue. e.g. you are in a 40 mph area. It changes to 30mph, the camera is a few yards further on and catches you before you have slowed to 30mph. You get a fine when there is no danger at all. Of course there are many in danger zones. But the majority are placed purely to catch a motorist for financial gain and nothing to do with road safety.
In many countries they are no longer used because the motorist pulled them down or made them useless but here in good old Britain we just put up with them and accept BIG BROTHER.
2007-06-22 12:10:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
If the police or local courts benefitted from them, I would be in complete agreement, but they receive little revenue for those cameras.
And you do have some law-abiding people that have bad luck with those. At an intersection, the green left-turn arrow came on but as two cars attempted to turn, a truck with a trailer exited a gas station and blocked their path. As they paused for the roadway to clear, the light turned to red and photographed both of them for "running a red light". The same thing happened to two cars headed straight who paused to let a pedestrian crossing illegally make it to the curb. They, too, were cited for being in the intersection on a red light.
Sadly, the cameras picked up neither the truck across the lanes or the pedestrian, so the fines were paid because the courts considered them guilty.
Obeying the law is in the eye of the beholder.
2007-06-22 12:05:57 · answer #2 · answered by Jess 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This type of thinking is what creates a totalitarian state where people are controlled by the state. What you lot fail to fully understand is that there are a percentage of very weak willed individuals who are used to taking instructions and orders from any jumped up busybody as long as they are told "you have to do it". The rest of us are an intelligent and free willed sensitive bunch who question whether all such controls and infringement on individual liberties are justified and we mostly object to this type of rubbish.
And we are not setting our marker by what a bunch of weak willed yellow bellied tossers think or do.
For instance, if you are not doing anything wrong, why don't we put an electronic tag on you so we can actually monitor where you go just to make sure?
To us it is better to have no cameras and the authorities should trust us not to speed. Simple as that.
2007-06-22 14:58:50 · answer #3 · answered by K. Marx iii 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When you are learning to drive, you learn the national speed limits for our roads, so what makes you think that you can break the law when you have passed your test? The only people moaning about speed cameras are the people who have been caught speeding and had to pay fines. Maybe if they just took your license away when you get caught speeding, less people would break the law!
2007-06-22 15:18:34 · answer #4 · answered by mel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't you just hate when people complain about cameras in public. Like people can't see them when they're walking down the street. Of coarse speed cameras are a good thing, there is literally no way they could be used against someone obeying the law.
2007-06-22 11:52:21 · answer #5 · answered by Mabus 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and a lot fewer people would be dead or injured. But all the scoff-laws who sail through the red (or yellow) lights, often with a cigarette in one hand and a cell phone in the other, or applying make-up in the rear-view mirror, don't stop to think about that.
They're special.
2007-06-22 11:56:52 · answer #6 · answered by senior citizen 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes we can complain.
For those who don't complain, would you be willing to place an electronic device in your car that would report every time you exceeded the speed limit and automatically received a citation?
2007-06-22 12:16:16 · answer #7 · answered by more than a hat rack 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Personally I think they are terrible for I spend more time looking at the speedo and looking out for cameras than looking and paying attention to the road. Scrap them all now they are dangerious.
2007-06-22 22:08:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'll stop moaning about them when they are put outside every school and set to 30mph exactly.
Most speed cameras are just revenue generators.
2007-06-22 11:54:06 · answer #9 · answered by ? 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Amen. We know we are breaking the law, if you get caught, just pay the fine.
2007-06-22 11:51:10 · answer #10 · answered by Kathi 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋