ANSWERS: 8
  • Good, because it's a good way to catch speeders and it frees up police officers to respond to other crimes. Red light cameras are good also.
  • They are a cash cow. Proven to actually cause accidents in some areas. Bad driving causes more accidents than speeding ever has, which of course no camera can detect.
  • Pointless. I don't think they're a reliable and good way of catching people out. They sometimes *catch* people who weren't really speeding. Also, there are ways to 'cheat' them. My brother has this (perfectly legal) thing in his car which beeps when he's within a certain distance of a speed camera, so he knows to slow down. I see people break hard all the time just before they pass through the speed camera, and in those instances accidents can actually result.
  • Good in theory...poor in practice. This should allow our police officers to be serving the public in more public safety issues (such as the bad guys coming into your house.) In practice they are a cash machine for jurisdictions that clog the courts. Drivers just blow through and pay later. The system needs to be re-visited.
  • I hate them! it's cheating as far as I'm concerned!...LOL
  • Bad. For one thing, the ticket ALWAYS goes to the registered owner of the vehicle. If I let someone else borrow my car, I do NOT want their points on my license nor do I want to lose the wages and go through the hassle of fighting it in court. Then again, how can I prove it wasn't me driving? How much leeway is in the programming? A live officer has the ability to exercise his/her own judgment based on prevailing traffic and weather conditions. A computer lacks this ability. If you grant this right to radar guns, then why not just replace the entire judicial system with a computer? It's not that big a leap.
  • I think speed enforcement cameras are good. They serve as reminders for drivers to comply with the gazetted speed limits. This is to encourage careful and safe driving.
  • Horrible idea. The first reason is that you cannot prove without reasonable doubt that I was driving my car. What if I lent it out to someone? I still get the ticket. I know some of you would say: "Well, just have your friend pay the ticket." That is not the point. The point is that these cameras cannot see the driver and therefore infringe on my rights as a United States Citizen. Not only that, but it tarnishes my otherwise perfect driving record. Secondly, my uncle is a Trustee of a town and according to him, the only reason these cameras are up are for one thing: MONEY. His town has made over 750,000 dollars in the first year alone. And accidents have gone down by 2%... this number is anticlimactic at best.

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