Just for those who may not know, a Squid is a motorcyclist
who weaves in and out of traffic
Of course, if we outlawed cars entirely we would never have
auto accidents... And their would be no need to spend all that money on
understructure, of course our society based on specialization and cheep
transport would also collapse, but hey, they numbers look great
;)
Their is a certain amount of responsibility and risk
associated with driving, it is why you need to be licensed to do so. The fact
that a camera can not distingue between safe maneuvers (merging into open space
to the front and right) and dangerous behavior like squidding through
traffic, is a problem.
I have to concur with the other critics of speed cameras. Any
statistical
data generated by the DPS should be carefully examined and
verified
before making conclusive statements.
I do agree speed does play a role in severity of accidents and it
should
be considered a factor in decreased time for reaction, however
the bigger issue is the fact that people do not pay attention to the
road
to begin with.
Some other statistics I have seen show that talking on the phone
while
driving decreases the reaction time to levels of an intoxicated
person.
The studies did not even mention dialing the phone. Only talking and
it
did not really matter if it was hands-free or not.
Also one may argue that putting cameras all over the place causes
people to pay more attention to spotting the cameras and less on
driving
itself. Which also is not the optimal for driving.
Just my 2 cents.
On Apr 2, 2009, at 10:11 AM, Eric Cope wrote:
link to those statistics?
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Josef Lowder
<joe@actionline.com> wrote:
On 4/1/09, Bryan O'Neal <
boneal@cornerstonehome.com>
wrote:
> I have no issue with red-light cameras, if they provide a
yellow light of
> adequate length to safely stop after noticing the
light change, say 5 or 6
> seconds. As for the speed cameras,
well, I am agenst speed limits and
> believe it should be safe and
prudent as seen by an officer and confirmed by
> a judge. As for the
cameras in particular, no one has been able to make
> public a report
showing they do anything other then annoy drivers. Accidents
Photo radar saves lives.
Period.
According to the Arizona State Department of Public
Safety, because of photo
radar, crashes are down by 12%, injuries have
been cut by 17%, and fatality
collisions are down by 29% on Phoenix-area
highways.
No clear-thinking person would want to eliminate photo
radar simply because
of their personal desire to want to disregard and
disobey highway speed laws.
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