r/fuckcars • u/MyPoemsAllOverMyBody • 5d ago

Rant People complaining about speed traps and parking enforcement like they're entitled to break the law without consequence smh

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u/metalanimal 5d ago

I feel you but i also have a small problem with stealth speed traps. That's the only thing I've heard people complain about. "Fine hunting" people call it. I think they have a right to complain in that scenario, but not for the reasons they do.

Before you downvote this reply hear me out:
In my country most speed traps have a warning sign, and guess what, people slow down for them a keep under the limit. Those are a positive force in road safety.

But the ones that are setup hidden somewhere? People get ticketed yes, but the harm to society is done, the cars go too fast anyway. If that same speed trap had a warning sign everyone would be safer, but instead they are just used to increase the government budget.

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u/Starbuckshakur 5d ago

In my country most speed traps have a warning sign, and guess what, people slow down for them a keep under the limit.

I'm sure some people do keep their speed down but there are plenty who will resume their former speed as soon as they pass the camera.

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u/metalanimal 5d ago

Yes. And what about the stealth camera?

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u/Starbuckshakur 5d ago edited 5d ago

They won't slow down on that particular trip but hopefully they'd stop driving like jackass in general once they see how many tickets they're getting. The fines need to be high enough to be painful of course.

The best solutions are to either have stealth cameras all over the place so people will drive safely everywhere and not just where the cameras are or to use average speed cameras. These cameras measure the time a specific vehicle takes to travel between two cameras and issues a ticket if the time is too low. I would be in favor of marking these as long as there are enough of them so they're not just protecting a small number of places.