Mazda Enters Speed Camera Debate

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Originally Posted by BENT_8

All good points, but how do we fund it?

Lets be honest, the Government is only interested in lowering the national debt, anything that raises revenue is going to stay.
It is a tax, disguised as a fine. Another source by which they balance the books.
Remove that revenue source and they will look for something to make up the shortfall.
I'd rather the notion of an voluntary tax for those caught over the limit than a set tax imposed to ensure the shortfall is met, yourself?

A tax should be a tax it should not be described as anything other than a tax.

Governments should not be entertaining methods of deceitfully relieving people of money for any reason. If we all followed this trend the whole country would soon fall into an economic mess. Our governments should be totally against fleecing people.

This cash cow is going to dry up anyway in the future. At some point the motoring public will revolt against it and there may come a time when it becomes more and more punitive, where a concerted effort by concerned people will actually rally all drivers against it and there could be a national go slow. It would only take a short while for something like that to have a very big effect. Its been done before.

As for funding, education of all drivers, not just new ones would be very cost effective as the cost will be borne by the drivers themselves as it is now. The difference being that everyone would have to do it or stay on the basic licence which would have restrictions placed upon it.

Another scenario could be that the motorcycle component of the licence is compulsory.

This would have the effect of numerous people deciding for themselves that their skill levels weren't good enough to gain the licence and would not try to get one and numerous others would fail the tests, effectively removing low skilled drivers from our roads quickly. The billions of dollars saved through the lowering of the accident rate would assist in funding infrastructure. It would also make our public transport system much more profitable for the govt coffers.

Speed does not cause any collisions. The only thing speed can contribute to is impact. So the argument of speed is a hollow one and a road toll of near zero could be obtained tomorrow by stopping all driving at any time by everyone if speed is the nasty thing its made out to be. The people who rant on about it could have their zero road toll tomorrow if they were really serious about their convictions.
If speed is such a demon why isn't there a lot of campaigning for this. Ohh! that's right its a bit too inconvenient!

Every crash is due to a mistake by a driver or in a very small minority of cases mechanical failure and unforeseeable circumstances like trees falling, avalanches etc.

If its not enough evidence to train drivers better I don't know what is!

There is no one fix for our road system it has to be a multi facetted approach not what we have now.