The Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) in central Malibu is one of the most deadly road in California.
I knew it was bad. I didn’t know it was this bad.
Ah, yes, the two stages of speed camera deployment:
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There’s too many speeders! We need to put up speed cameras!
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There’s too many speeders! We need to take down the speed cameras!
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Turns out almost literally everyone speeds. Even people who don’t want to speed end up speeding because the guy behind them is threatening to use his vehicle as a weapon if you don’t go as fast as he wants you to.
Not me!
I drive like a very old woman* who is hyper cautious of all other forces on the road (pedestrians, cyclists and other cars). And when someone inevitably gets on my bumper because I’m going a bit under the speed LIMIT in the slow lane, I smile and wave.
I’m not operating my totally not a murder machine in a way that endangers anyone if I can damn well help it.
- not to denigrate old women as it always seems to be old men who mix the pedal and plow into a farmers markets at full tilt
Same here, set cruise and don’t touch speed again. I also don’t take highways anymore and wow has that helped! The reduced traffic and speeds on non-highway roads makes people substantially less assholy.
Takes a bit longer to get where I’m going, and some people pass in very scary ways, but it feels so much less stressful overall, so that’s worth it.
I do the same, it also has the added benefit of being more efficient with your battery if you drive an EV.
I drive an EV after two successive hybrids.
I was probably the average speedster on freeways prior to the first one (2007), but ever since have been all about trying to maximize that sweet mileage. Also be less of a menace, even though I’ve always been super cautious behind the wheel, even when driving absurdly oversized vehicles.
Exactly why I started, wouldn’t go back for anything!
Revenue target was hit, why roll out more /s
So 100,000 people times about 140$ per ticket, thats if everyone did not go to traffic school. Traffic school would be about 240. They made at least 14,000,000$ in those 10 days.
Revoke their licenses
They could be printing money, but instead car brain took over.
