I mean, I think pneumatic road tubes are far more effective for capturing cleaner data on vehicle speeds over time, since they are less visible and likely unnoticed by many drivers. They aren’t there to fine drivers, but I’m sure with a small hidden camera, they could work in the same way. Not sure why speed cameras are so visible, since people almost always in my experience, will speed back up after leaving the area of the speed camera, negating the benefits swiftly.
That’s exactly why they are visible. People don’t slow down because they abstractly understand that speed cameras exist in the universe. They slow down where they know there is a camera, and that is exactly the behaviour that is being exploited. Cameras are intended as a location-specific safety intervention that (according to all practical data) makes drivers slaughter vulnerable road users significantly less than when there isn’t a camera. You can argue that it’s a bandaid but I think that would mean you were trying to solve a problem other than the one the camera was deployed for.
I mean, I think pneumatic road tubes are far more effective for capturing cleaner data on vehicle speeds over time, since they are less visible and likely unnoticed by many drivers. They aren’t there to fine drivers, but I’m sure with a small hidden camera, they could work in the same way. Not sure why speed cameras are so visible, since people almost always in my experience, will speed back up after leaving the area of the speed camera, negating the benefits swiftly.
That’s exactly why they are visible. People don’t slow down because they abstractly understand that speed cameras exist in the universe. They slow down where they know there is a camera, and that is exactly the behaviour that is being exploited. Cameras are intended as a location-specific safety intervention that (according to all practical data) makes drivers slaughter vulnerable road users significantly less than when there isn’t a camera. You can argue that it’s a bandaid but I think that would mean you were trying to solve a problem other than the one the camera was deployed for.