Re: Speeding Cameras
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I prefer speed limits to an officer subjectively and arbitrarily judging an "unsafe" speed. I also agree that speed limits are usually too low. If they were raised, and a lower tolerance for speeding was enforced (no bs 7mph rule) that was objective, I don't see the problem.
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The problem with this is that the average motorist is always going to go slightly above the speed limit, and it can be unsafe to drive at strictly the speed limit when everyone else around you is going 3-18 m.p.h. faster. If speed limits were raised (say 5 m.p.h. increase) to adjust, as you suggest, motorists would simply themselves adjust to going 3-18 m.p.h. above that and the driver who is the strict observer of speed limits would still be in the hazardous position.
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Not if it was enforced without the subjectivity thats there today. People go 3-10 over because they will rarely get a ticket for it, even when driving past a cop.
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How the heck would you propose to completely eliminate subjectivity, though? Put Robocops at every intersection and every 200 yards on the highways?
Another problem is that even that would not take into account such things as perfectly legitimate uses of extra speed, such as in avoiding a potential accident or in passing another vehicle.
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