What is the point of speed camera detectors?
February 23rd, 2010 | by admin |Surely having one in your car defeats the whole object of making people stay at a safe speed. Now people can speed as much as they like without fear of being caught because they can be forewarned of forthcoming speed cameras. Personally, I think speed camera detectors should be banned – not speed cameras themselves.
I agree, does defeat the object.
14 Responses to “What is the point of speed camera detectors?”
By thumpy on Feb 23, 2010 | Reply
To see who’s naughty or nice!
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MERRY CHRISTMAS
By JOHN W on Feb 23, 2010 | Reply
Speed cameras are placed at accident black spots … and not, we are told, in high revenue areas. If this is the case then making sure that you are aware of these "high accident" areas is good? Making mobile camera detectors illegal is just a way of making more money to spend on ??????? ….. you tell me where the money goes and i’ll back you all the way with cameras (fixed and mobile).
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By leon on Feb 23, 2010 | Reply
of course they should be banned!- i don’t know how they were ever accepted! personally, i think they need to get hidden cameras set up all over the place, so that people don’t know where they are. Surely with todays technology they don’t have to paint giveaway lines on the roads to detect a vehicles speed?
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By b on Feb 23, 2010 | Reply
too late,cameras banned in Ohio
haha
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By netnazivictim on Feb 23, 2010 | Reply
I think both should be banned. And while I am here, let me say that I am sick to death of all you people that are trying to nanny me to death. I want my fast car, I want my motorcycle with out a helmet, I want transfat greasy fries and a 16 oz T-bone steak with a large side of gravy and potatoe salad. I wanna smoke and drink til I pass out. This planet did really fine for thousands of years, but now the nammby pamby weaklings somehow are trying to emasculate all the alphas and make being a whiney loser thenorm. I say to hell with that.
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By la.bruja0805 on Feb 24, 2010 | Reply
The government says speed cameras are placed at dangerous areas of a road to try & minimise accidents. Therefore ‘officially’ speed camera detectors are not marketed to help you dodge the fine but to forewarn you of an accident blackspot. Apparently speed camera detectors are going to be banned next year.
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By cartman on Feb 24, 2010 | Reply
to make you aware of your speed
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By mark j on Feb 24, 2010 | Reply
Why can you not understand driving is a privilege not a right,so do not think you can do what you please on the road.
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By LEX on Feb 24, 2010 | Reply
The point of a speed camera is to extort money from the already extorted motorist!! I f the government wanted us to slow down, cars would be governed, but if our cars were governed our fuel bills would drop by 2!/3 rds that would be a massive decrease to the tax we pay on fuel!!
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Common sense.
By Peter Piper of the 1980s on Feb 24, 2010 | Reply
"Personally, I think speed camera detectors should be banned – not speed cameras themselves."
That’s because you are an evil fascist. Don’t be surprised when five years from now you find yourself in a cattle car on the way to a "re-education camp."
Fascism-ask for it by name.
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By bostonianinmo on Feb 24, 2010 | Reply
Given that the REAL purpose of speed cameras is to generate income, not to improve road safety — sod the buggers!
If anything, speed cameras probably REDUCE road safety. I’ve noticed that speeds — especially on secondary two-lane roads –have dropped well below the legal 60 MPH as people are afraid of being done for speeding by the flaming speed cams. This increases the likelihood of someone trying to overtake just to maintain legal speeds and any time you overtake you’re taking a calculated risk. It’s bloody frustrating to get stuck behind some plonk rolling along at 50 MPH who is more concerned with avoiding speed cameras than actually driving safely.
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By Easy on Feb 24, 2010 | Reply
speed cameras, just another name for taxes
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By merlin_81 on Feb 24, 2010 | Reply
I agree, does defeat the object.
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By phil b on Feb 24, 2010 | Reply
I think its detectors that can detect laser type speed detectors like the mobile cameras and handheld ones that may be banned, not all camera detectors. That would mean ALL GPS operated equipment would have to be banned. Ambulances, Fire, Aircraft Military units, even Police use GPS, so I do’nt think they GPS will be banned.
I have used one for sometime and there have been two occassion when they saved a pedestrians life, one on a blind bend, my detector announced BLACK SPOT ahead as I did not know the road when I slowed down and went around the bend there was a pedestrain in the middle of the road in the process of crossing it. The second was near to a school (without) 20mph signage in a village in a dip in the road. Its pedestrians that need banning to even think about crossing near to a bend that they had local knowledge of for being dangerous.
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