28 August 2024

Speed cameras.



The big lie of claiming that speed cameras are there to ensure "road safety".

Nowadays, speed cameras every 5 minutes, often artfully hidden and with speed limits that are clearly oversized for the type of road and worthy of a nineteenth-century carriage.
They say it is for the road safety of drivers, passengers and, above all, pedestrians.
But then, if the primary objective is the protection of pedestrians and the secondary objective is road safety, it is not clear why:
1) they do not close the historic centers to vehicular traffic,
2) they do not introduce pedestrian crossings with traffic lights,
3) they do not clearly warn of the presence of the speed camera on duty so as to certainly induce drivers to slow down.
If you really want to increase road safety, you simply do three things:
1) speed cameras are made previously and clearly visible,
2) the withdrawal of the driving license is given priority over the application of financial penalties,
3) all (!) the proceeds of the relevant fines are used exclusively (!) for road safety (road renovation, implementation of signs, etc.).
Otherwise, one engages in demagoguery and lies knowing one is lying, and speed cameras are just a vulgar pretext to cash in money on the skin of the taxpayers most blackmailable and more sure under the profile of the guarantees.