We all know the Speed Camera; You go by it faster than the posted speed limit, it takes a quick pick, you get a ticket. Well the U.K. has, to quote some ex-McDonald's cook, "kicked it up a notch." They have implemented Speed Zones. When you enter the zone, a camera takes a pic of your plate, regardless of your speed. Your plate is then tracked via multiple speed cameras throughout the zone. If you get from one camera to another, faster than what the speed limit says you should have, then it knows you were speeding, and issues you a ticket. The speed cited is the speed calculated by the time it took you to get from one camera to the next.

I'm screwed if this makes its way over here.....

 

awww hell no

 

They're planning to implement that on 408 and 417 (our two toll highways here).

 

well that sucks, this is just another excuse for the cops to be lazy

by the time we know it we arent gonna need cops at all to stop speeders

 

...and yet you'll still hear "We lack the manpower..." when other crime rates remain the same or increase...

 

This doesn't surprise me at all. I don't think it is necessarily a bad thing. I'll be going 45 in a 40 only to be passed by some ******* going at least 65-70. In those times, I wonder where the cops are. Now, the 'cops' will be cameras.

In general, I try to abide the posted speed limit. But... there are times (like when I'm driving on backroads) when I like to put it down the road.

 

Indeed, I have my own personal mixed feelings about speeding. All I know is my gas consumption drops dramatically if I stick to 60 or 65 mph on I-95 from where I live in CT to where I go to school, which is 140 miles almost all interstate. I used to get right under 400 miles to the tank in my 1.8t audi a4 quattro scooting along at ~75 and now get about 500. If everyone obeyed the speed limits we put in place during the last big fuel crunch we wouldn't have been in one this summer.