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Well, i must confess to having quite a few speeding tickets in my life time. I am usually driving between 5 and 10 mph over the posted speed limit at any given time in the car, though i do tend to ride the bike at or very near the posted limit.

But, if i may for a moment defend the gatsos. IF we were all to obey the speed limits (or to put that another way, OBEY THE LAW) then these camaras would be a non issue, as we, being law abiding citizens would have nothing to worry about.

You really cant get PO'ed about getting a ticket, be it from a camara, patrol car or an unmarked police car. Fact is you broke the law and got caught.



You are assuming the speed limits make sense. That is often not the case. Far too often the limits are set well below what the natural flow of traffic would be without an arbitrary limit. Whenever I hear someone whining about how 90% of the vehicles on a road are exceeding the speed limit I wonder why self appointed experts get to set them rather than the motoring public. If the speed limit is 55 but everyone is doing 70 then why is the limit not 70? Speed limits are often set more for political and revenue reasons than for safety. A local suburb called Windsor Heights has a citywide speed limit of 25 MPH that they enforce with a gleeful ruthlessness. The main artery that passes through is 35 to 45 MPH everywhere else in the metro area but 25 there.

I’m sure everyone knows of areas where the customary speed is well above the posted limit. To drive the limit, rather than go with the flow of traffic, is to increase your chances of an accident.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.