What do you do when cameras start calculating the average speed over some distance, rather than doing single-spot measurements? :)
You could still be warned that you are aproaching the area though. Interestingly these use front mounted cameras (to capture the driver) so have no effect on motorbikes - though the general slower speed seems to slow them on the motorways.
As a cyclist (and driver) I think they are great for city driving, and a much better solution than speedbumps or other calming measures.
Perhaps they make sense when everyone has cruise control as standard to rely on, but until then a mass rollout would drive me to public transport. Or is that the point?
Depressingly, I can't think of a better solution. Driving makes people into assholes, myself included, and averaging cameras are about the only thing that works. Speed bumps and traffic calming simply cause an arms race of bigger and bigger SUVs that simply roll over anything smaller than a mini with impunity.
I suppose they could try the Edinburgh approach of simply not repairing the roads, in favour of spending the money on an overgrown toy train set for the current set of ideologically-challenged councillors.
On a whole day drive that would still be faster as the speeding means you don't have to add on time for breaks.
In France that's effectively what happens. The toll gates are used to determine the average speed check over a journey, and so you can notice that the last service station before a toll gate is busier.
Not that I had a chance to do the same in the clapped out old Volvo I drove through France in.
I personally think average speed checks are great. In London I'd love to see the congestion charge cameras (number recognition technology) also used to check for average speed between any two cameras. I think that if people knew the whole of the city centre had average speed check enforcement that it would be a great benefit to the safety of pedestrians, cyclists and other road users in the city.
It's also planned to display the average speed during a section control, but that is not part yet of the current version, I believe.
This isn't a murder trial, it's a minor infraction, like a parking ticket.
I rather see a society where guilty people skip a fine than honest people get a fine.