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Originally Posted by me283
What is watertight is that 30mph is not the waterline at which people get killed. If I drove at 1000mph and missed you, it wouldn't kill you. My point is that speed ALONE doesn't kill, yet that is all that GATSOs detect. And no life has ever been saved by the driver of a car being photographed.
No I don't think that about speed limits. I think that many need to be reviewed, and I also think that too much focus is placed upon the enforcement of speed limits. I shall re-iterate, cameras do not enforce the speed limit, they merely generate revenue. If speed kills, why don't we have a nationwide blanket speed limit of 10mph? And maybe inhibit vehicles so that they cannot exceed that limit? Or do you not think that would save lives?
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And I'm accused of having a VERY poor argument?! Love your 100mph and I missed you and then 10mph limit comments - not a particularly intellectual standpoint is it though, taking a logic to a ludicrous extreme?
Of course speed is only one of a number of accident factors and the others should be addressed but speed reduces your ability to deal with the unexpected and, thanks to Gatso technology, speeders can be readily identified and, through
their actions (not the camera) in breaking the law, generate revenue. There is a simple way of cutting that revenue stream off but speeding drivers instead decide to complain endlessly that camera siting is unfair (er, when does where you break the law become a defence?) or speed limits to low because they get caught. They are arrogant and/or selfish.