mjr wrote:But the lovely thing about speed limits and red lights is that we don't need to take up any police officer time. We could automate enforcement of these and leave the police to do the more dangerous crimes instead of the current situation where there aren't enough cameras on.
We could automate RLJing easy enough with cameras on every TL if the state had a mind to.
We could,with far more difficulty automate average speed on any given road with cameras,whether the accuracy would be to 1 or 2mph is another matter and whether drivers would stay on that road long enough to have their average speed verified is another matter.Perhaps a few would on some routes,but in built up areas with many side roads and alternative routes and roads available to them I very much doubt it.
That leaves the shed load of other serious crimes committed by motorists on UK roads that go unnoticed daily due to a complete lack of effective policing
Not mention the p*** poor sentencing of serious driver crime
Shouldn't the country be focusing on those first?
IMHO from the POV of law enforcement and sentencing,the spec in the eye of 1 to 2mph over the limit drivers is being focused on waaayyyy too much,when the plank in the eye of far more serious driver crime is being ignored by the authorities and some on this thread .
YVMV mine won't!