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I'd rather put up with the speeding than aasking for the government to intervene.

The speeding itself isn't the problem. The increased risk of accidents is - and since this is around a school, it involves young children.

"I'd rather put up with the speeding" implies you don't have kids and you only consider the noise nuisance, not the safety risk. Very self-centered.

Government is already intervening, you think people are going at only 46 kmh because of goodwill?

Said someone living in a comfortable country with a stable government.

You can’t seriously believe this right?

There is optimum level of state intervention. IMO monitoring people with cameras for speeding is a step too far.

I bet you are the same type of person who values software privacy haha

Then why even have speed limits if you don't want to enforce them?

You sound like someone who doesn't have young children who cross a road where the road users should be respecting the speed limit set deliberately low because it's right in front of an elementary school, but instead a significant proportion of them are Michael Schumacher wannabes who need to drive everywhere at 60km/h.

No need to have children. It’s the same crap in France and I have to be very careful not to get killed when I’m driving myself. These morons don’t care about kids but they don’t care about other drivers either.

I’m a big privacy advocate but when you are handling a killing machine on a public road, there is no privacy IMHO.

I think that's simplifying things too much: as a driver, there are also pedestrians who will jump out into a street without so much as looking where there is no crosswalk; there are also drivers who will drive 20km/h in a 50km/h zone, and you have no idea what's going on except that you are likely to hit 5 red traffic lights which are designed to be a "green wave" and make a 30 second drive through one street into a 5 minute one, and resulting in more gas usage and more pollution.

And yes, this type of driving will produce annoyed drivers that "drive crazy", and I don't accept that this is just their fault.

Mostly, these same drivers doing 20km/h will not even stop for pedestrians on a crosswalk — slowness does not equal attention and safe driving!

Traffic, in essence, is a collaborative effort that requires all participants to be empathetical to other participants — as such, we need to be most mindful of the "weakest" participants like pedestrians (especially kids, who can also be very inattentive), cyclists, motorcycles but also of other car drivers — if we care about each others' experience, we'll reduce the risk for everyone involved, while getting everyone where they want to go in a timely and efficient manner — and that is the goal!

Yes it requires collective empathy. There was a time when we never required the nanny state to constantly watch over us. A sign of a high functioning, free and unified society is that you shouldn't need be forced by the hand of the law to conform to the lowest common denominator.

As others have pointed out, you are essentially advocating for non-enforcement of speed limits.

Which feels an arbitrary line to draw. What about other road rules? Driving on the right side? Using unregistered vehicles?

Countries like India, China and South East Asia, have much less enforcement of these rules… Would you call their driving experience optimal?

Not sure what you mean by values software privacy. I don’t really have a view on it? So no, I don’t think I am.

Do you think the government does not track your car already?

Much easier to lecture private citizens about privacy than the government ha.

Ooh how edgy.

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