Average speed cameras only work on motorways. In the stop-start traffic of a city they’re completely irrelevant.
Edit: We had fixed speed cameras and mobile ones for at least 50 years where I live. It’s funny to see people theorizing about them as if they were some entirely new concept.
Not sure why you think I’m theorising as though it’s a new concept. I was speaking as to what clearly works based on the fact that it’s what we do here in Australia and have done as long as I can remember, and that our death rates are so much lower than in America, on both a per capita and per vehicle-km basis.
I mean, it’s easy to have lower death rates than a country where you can do your driver’s license without ever leaving the parking lot.
In stop-start traffic all sorts of speed cameras are mostly irrelevant.
Average speed cameras work on any stretch of road where people actually exceed the speed limit. The cool thing about average speed cameras is that the technology is so incredibly simple and cheap that you can just place them on every junction on a road.
In stop-start traffic all sorts of speed cameras are mostly irrelevant.
What I meant with that previous comment was not bumper-to-bumper traffic, but “regularly stopped by traffic lights” driving. Where some people absolutely will speed if they think they can get away with it, so maximising the fear of getting caught is a great way to reduce speeding.
But an average speed camera doesn’t really work if they only get a few hundred metres, maybe a couple of kilometres at best, before they have to stop, and if during those couple of kilometres there’s a mixture of times when they’re speeding and times when they have to slow down because of other cars who aren’t speeding.
They really can only work on motorways, with many kilometres between cameras and on- and off-ramps.
Average speed cameras only work on motorways. In the stop-start traffic of a city they’re completely irrelevant.
Not sure why you think I’m theorising as though it’s a new concept. I was speaking as to what clearly works based on the fact that it’s what we do here in Australia and have done as long as I can remember, and that our death rates are so much lower than in America, on both a per capita and per vehicle-km basis.
I mean, it’s easy to have lower death rates than a country where you can do your driver’s license without ever leaving the parking lot.
In stop-start traffic all sorts of speed cameras are mostly irrelevant.
Average speed cameras work on any stretch of road where people actually exceed the speed limit. The cool thing about average speed cameras is that the technology is so incredibly simple and cheap that you can just place them on every junction on a road.
What I meant with that previous comment was not bumper-to-bumper traffic, but “regularly stopped by traffic lights” driving. Where some people absolutely will speed if they think they can get away with it, so maximising the fear of getting caught is a great way to reduce speeding.
In that case, average speed cameras still work, and they still work better than single-spot speed cameras.
But an average speed camera doesn’t really work if they only get a few hundred metres, maybe a couple of kilometres at best, before they have to stop, and if during those couple of kilometres there’s a mixture of times when they’re speeding and times when they have to slow down because of other cars who aren’t speeding.
They really can only work on motorways, with many kilometres between cameras and on- and off-ramps.