Before the end of this year a new method of policing speeding vehicles will be in place near Wollongong. Speed cameras will monitor a six kilometre stretch of the Princes Highway between the Picton Road turnoff and Gwynnville.
Cameras will snap the number plates of vehicles at the start and finish of that stretch of road - computers will calculate the time factor for it to be legally covered - and those in breach will get a fine in the mail.
There is just one small anomaly to this extension of speed policing. It will only be applied to trucks !
A good question to ask would be - why ?
We slow down when we spot a patrolling police car - and we generally agree that sticking to the speed limit is a safety issue - so why not use this form of policing to cover all the country's road network.
If we were aware that a multitude of cameras estimated the time taken from point to point and compared this with the legal speed for that journey - then speeding would lead to an inevitable fine and loss of driver points.
It would no longer be a matter of luck and the hope of avoiding any police speed check. The only way to avoid an automatic penalty for speeding - would be to obey the speed limit.
The fact that it would not be popular seems to be the only thing stopping the government from implementing a sure fire safety aspect to speeding !
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