This is dumb, police have been hiding behind roadside billboards to catch speeders since the advent of the car. It’s nothing new.
I for one am glad for speed enforcement, I fucking hate people who race on highways or city streets, dodging between cars with half a car-length to spare in front and back. Before texting, speeding caused the majority of highway fatalities.
I don’t know who I hate more, cops or fucking asshole drivers.
Hate bad designers. US has some egregious road design.
Don’t make stroads. Either make streets with traffic calming or roads. This will reduce most of the need for speed checks.
And instead of hiding, just put that car in plain view. People will slow down automatically. You can even cheap our and out a cardboard car to fake a police car, studies have show this works😂
I’m with you on this one. I don’t support the corrupt/abusive actions of many police, but people who bitch and moan about being targeted for speeding and/or driving like assholes fucking deserve it. Now sure, getting popped for going just slightly over is garbage, but those aren’t the drivers or the incidents I’m talking about. There’s a weird sentiment among a lot of drivers that traffic laws are just arbritray and optional. I will always cheer for police who catch the worst of them, and I wish it happened more often.
I don’t object to speed limits in the abstract. I do object to speed limits not being set to reasonable levels, such as the 85th percentile. I definitely object to the assholes careening along at breakneck speeds, and I have no problem with police deterring them.
Now if we could just get traffic stops to stop being fishing expeditions for other stuff. The war on drugs was always made to be the war against minorities… that needs to end.
My take on this is, why hide? The mere presence of a police car typically makes people behave in traffic, and if they don’t then they can still get nabbed. Wouldn’t it be better to be visible and a looming threat without the profit incentive of just getting people for tickets?
Most of them don’t hide. Not really. That bike cop behind the bush is something I’ve never seen. They are almost always in obvious sight, doing exaxtly what you’re suggesting: deterring speeders.
As for the black-on-black markings. Yeah, I wish they were more obvious. Mostly so I can be sure I stay out of their way on the highway.
This is dumb, police have been hiding behind roadside billboards to catch speeders since the advent of the car. It’s nothing new.
I for one am glad for speed enforcement, I fucking hate people who race on highways or city streets, dodging between cars with half a car-length to spare in front and back. Before texting, speeding caused the majority of highway fatalities.
I don’t know who I hate more, cops or fucking asshole drivers.
Hate bad designers. US has some egregious road design.
Don’t make stroads. Either make streets with traffic calming or roads. This will reduce most of the need for speed checks.
And instead of hiding, just put that car in plain view. People will slow down automatically. You can even cheap our and out a cardboard car to fake a police car, studies have show this works😂
I live in the Netherlands with streets full of traffic calming measures people speed here all the time.
hiding and being visible are very different philosophies on speed enforcement:
hidden cars and cameras are intended to slow people down in general; marked cars and cameras are intended to slow people down in specific areas
neither are particularly right or wrong imo, and in fact where i live in australia both are used regularly
I’m with you on this one. I don’t support the corrupt/abusive actions of many police, but people who bitch and moan about being targeted for speeding and/or driving like assholes fucking deserve it. Now sure, getting popped for going just slightly over is garbage, but those aren’t the drivers or the incidents I’m talking about. There’s a weird sentiment among a lot of drivers that traffic laws are just arbritray and optional. I will always cheer for police who catch the worst of them, and I wish it happened more often.
I don’t object to speed limits in the abstract. I do object to speed limits not being set to reasonable levels, such as the 85th percentile. I definitely object to the assholes careening along at breakneck speeds, and I have no problem with police deterring them.
Now if we could just get traffic stops to stop being fishing expeditions for other stuff. The war on drugs was always made to be the war against minorities… that needs to end.
My take on this is, why hide? The mere presence of a police car typically makes people behave in traffic, and if they don’t then they can still get nabbed. Wouldn’t it be better to be visible and a looming threat without the profit incentive of just getting people for tickets?
Most of them don’t hide. Not really. That bike cop behind the bush is something I’ve never seen. They are almost always in obvious sight, doing exaxtly what you’re suggesting: deterring speeders.
As for the black-on-black markings. Yeah, I wish they were more obvious. Mostly so I can be sure I stay out of their way on the highway.