I recently read that some US states & DC in particular are still toying with photo radars, which we call speed cameras, and that red light cameras (which we funnily enough call red light cameras) are fairly wide spread.
I also recently read the following from a US Newspaper site (but I've forgotten which one - none of the majors)
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The Federal Highway Administration conducted a scientific experiment over a five-year period, and found that the 85th percentile speed--or the speed under which 85 percent of drivers travel--changed no more than 1 to 2 mph even when the speed limit changed 15 mph. In another study, the same engineers--one of whom was Dr. Samuel Tignor, who just retired as the FHWA's technical director for safety and research development--found that "current speed limits are set too low to be accepted as reasonable by the vast majority of drivers. Only about 1 in 10 speed zones has better than 50 percent compliance. The posted speeds make technical violators out of motorists driving at reasonable and safe speeds."
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My questions are:
1. Does your state/province have photo radar?
2. Has it ever? (I'm pretty sure Colorado stopped using them, and Ontario as well)
3. What stops them parking one on the side of an interstate and generating HUGE amounts of cash based on the FHWA's comments above...
4. Is the reason for not having them the presumed guilty until proven innocent method of infringement ticketing?
Thanks Russell C.
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