Safe Speed Forums

Recently I was travelling with a friend and I noticed a "new" behaviour at camera sites - my friend looked in his mirror three times as we passed a Gatso. I asked him what he was doing. He said that because of all the publicity recently around the accuracy of the Gatso cameras, he was checking his speed and then his mirror to see if the camera had flashed him, I presume so he could challenge it in court.

So now we have drivers looking at their speedometer and mirror, when they should be looking ahead!

I hadn't realised how much the cameras alter driver behaviour!

I think it was Sir Issac Newton who said that you can't observe a system without interfering with it.

at least if you ram something you can argue you were under the speed limit

That's quantum physics isn't it?

Though you're absolutely right. And they publish stats to show that speed has been reduced at these sites. How do they measure these speeds? Either surveyors with a speed measuring device, or with those two strips across the road.

In both cases, everyone knows they're speed measuring devices and slow down for them, in the first case this is especially true.

I think there should be some campaign to accelerate over those rubber measuring strips just to screw with the statistics, or would that just justify more cameras (in which case, we should all crawl over them to screw with the statistics, with the aim of making it fall befow the rule)

Or reverse over them and register negative speeds.

That would only work if they were measuring a dual carriageway, otherwise it would just assume the car was going the other way.

I guess you could roll back and forth over it if you were in a traffic jam, make it think there was a unicycle convention going on or something.