Xaccers,
There are some interesting thoughts there about variable speed limits. The sad part is that the maximum is 70mph, even if the road would be safe at, say 80mph. As I posted previously, my extensive driving in Europe has shown me that the benefits of our comparatively lower speed limits are not immediately evident.
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Originally Posted by Pierre
A recent study showed that cameras don't even work at blackspots either and the best way to reduce accidents at dangerous bends, junctions etc is by the use of "active signing". You've probably seen them popping up at bad bends etc. These are signs that light up as you approach them. They immediately grap your attention and you react to them.
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I saw an interesting thing in France last summer. In some areas where there had been fatalities, they placed a kind of cutout/dummy by the side of the road, in the shape of a man, woman, or child, as relevant to the fatality. Seeing two "ghosts" by the side of the road did more to make me slow down than seeing a camera. In Greece they often erect a small model church by the side of the road, like a kind of shrine. The difference between these and our country's methods of speed reduction are that theirs say "people have been killed here" whereas ours say "we have found another way of taxing motorists".