Cunobelin wrote:
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Whether or not an individual is driving safely or inappropriately (again the important question is as to in whose opinion) is irrelevant.
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I have no doubt all these drivers thought they were driving safely and at an appropriate speed. The fact is that because of them there is now traffic calming to enforce a posted speed limit.
A speed limit is a legal restriction on the activity - travelling faster than this is an offence. Speed, get caught, pay fine - it's simple mathematics.
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Speed cameras do not detect inappropriate speed
There is a legal limit, (not open to personal interpretation as to whether you will decide to obey it or not) - break the law by exceeding that limit is by definition inappropriate.
Obey the law, and there is no problem.
I have a couple of questions and observations for Cunobelin....
I have absolutely NO objection to a VIDEO camera following someone's progress along a roadway IF the recording made shows the target vehicle concerned to be driven by a plonker
regardless of the speed involved. For example, at school turn out time, where most people are passing the said school at around 20MPH, cautiously; if and when 'our hero' comes into shot tailgating at 2 feet behind some poor so and so, flashing his lights and sounding his horn to "get out of the way", I would approve 1,000% of such camera use.
But the thing is, in the example above, 'our hero' hasn't actually exceeded the speed limit, so according to your logic that's ok. HOWEVER, later that evening (say at 9pm), on the way back from a visit to friends, "Mr Perfectly Orinary-Considerate-&-Normal" gets flashed doing 37MPH past the same place.
Something, at least to my mind, is very wrong here.
Point 2: "You say obey the law at all times". Have you EVER realised you have taken a biro home from work and not taken it back? Well if you have, then you're a tea-leaf! As the maximum penalty for theft in this country is a £10,000 fine AND / OR 10 years in prison, how would you feel about it if a "NIP" hit your doormat, followed by a conditional £500 fine and 6 weeks in prison - no further questions asked?
I mean, from your posts, you don't seem like a cleptomaniac (just like most posters on here who have transgressed the absolute demands of the law don't come across me like wannabe Michael Schumakers), but you never know, eh?