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"Adjusting" behavior to speed cameras just means learning where they are (after you've been burned, or noticed everyone suddenly hitting their brakes), and then making sure you slow down as you approach the camera, only to quickly speed up when you're out of range. There might be some incremental benefit to pedestrians around the camera, but I'm not convinced that this provides a net benefit to society.

If you can show with numbers that there are fewer pedestrians hits or that the injuries are less serious where cameras are in place, I might feel differently, but my impression of speed cameras is that all they accomplish is sowing havoc on the roads. Even the notion of slowing down drivers at one point may just mean that drivers drive even faster afterwards to make up perceived lost time.

by Fischy (Ed F.) on Apr 2, 2012 11:22 am • link • report

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