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Speed limits are what has been determined to be the maximum safe speed on that stretch of road in good conditions, and based on the average driver. And I'd rather take the local authority civil engineers' views on when it's safe to do 60 than rely on the common sense of some twat in a chavved up Nova (sure, some people know when and how to drive safely, but 95% don't).
It's clear you've no idea how speed limits are actually decided.
Yeah, they pluck the number out of the air, don't they. To piss you and Jeremy Clarkson off.
We have the local highways authority people currently reviewing the speed limits on our road, thankfully. Needed moreso now they're removing the mirror which aids pulling out of the blind junction halfway along.
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Because it's a hell of a lot safer to drive at a safe speed than with one eye on the speedo making damn sure you don't stray over and the other desperately scanning the hedges looking for the cunningly hidden "Visible" speed camera.
If you need to look at your speedo to tell that you're at a constant speed you're a shit driver and shouldn't be on the road anyway.
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Because speed cameras are invariably hosted at the bottom of slight hills where you're likely to stray over.
Really? Do your brakes not work very well?
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Because speed cameras have replaced policemen and have no sense of situation. 80mph on the M4 at 3am is not dangerous, but you'll be caught. 70mph on a crowded wet M4 at 7pm weaving between cars like mad is suicide, but these people now have a licence to do it.
This I absolutely agree with. However, it's not an argument against speed cameras. It's an argument against inappropriate reliance on them. The perfect solution would be speed cameras plus traffic police, rather than just one or the other. The lack of police leads to many rpoblems, and the lack of cameras would just mean people tanking along until they saw a white car.
I'd be happier with all speed cmaeras being hidden, actually, so you don't know where they are and people stick to the limit the whole bloody time.
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Because the introduction of speed cameras reversed a decade long consistent fall in road deaths.
[citation needed]
This comes down to "I know better than the government, I want to go fast, and I'm a safe and responsible driver so I should be allowed".
Well, maybe you are. But the other 95% of drivers certainly aren't, and we can't just have one law for the safest drivers and one for the shits. The traffic laws have to bring everyone down to the common denominator, I'm afraid. Deal with it.
And I note you had a go at comical for ignoring all the points in your post, and then do the same yourself with my earlier one. Back to WOS with you.
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