Pete317 wrote:
If you don't believe that people take more chances and liberties when they believe their surroundings to be safe, then give a reasoned argument in support of your contention
Drivers
dotake more chances and liberties when they are safe from speed and red-light cameras (OK, and cops!) - that is why I want more of all of them.
I agree that people alter their behaviour according to risks to
themselves, paying less regard to others, so cameras are, in a sense, a way to raise the risk to speeders (who endanger others) without raising the risk to the lawful drivers with whom speeders interact dangerously. The distinction is not quite so cut and dried with humps and narrowing bollards, but they do tame speeders very well in some cases where the maximum should be 20 mph.
Pete317 wrote:
Ad hominem attacks don't count as debate
Sorry for that. I don't agree with your assumption that safety measures are futile because people will raise their risk accordingly because I don't believe the correlations cancel out - there is residual benefit in most cases which you had not considered.