People race through GG park at night. They used to race on great highway too, but I guess they don't anymore since it's closed to car traffic now. Of course that never stopped biker gangs so I guess they still do crazy stunt shit.

Lol right. I haven't been to the part of San Francisco where 100 mph driving wouldn't be insane. Maybe on some kind of super street bike but even then...

It might be the night time street races that can hit 100 between lights when commuter traffic is next to none.

In Toronto you got most people driving 20 above the posted limit like it's nothing mostly during the day, but come night when the roadways are clear and empty some are going 30 over.

Maybe if they're truly ubiquitous on all roads everywhere, then maybe. But if they're just scattered around here and there then i doubt they achieve much beyond fattening they city's ticket income

This assumes you can see and recognize the camera. Driving in sf there's so many other things you're watching out for, and the streets/sidewalks have so much other shit going on that you'd be hard pressed to spot the camera.

Also like someone else mentioned it could increase overall incidents but if those are minor, like getting rear ended, it's well worth reducing pedestrian fatalities.

NYC implemented speeding cameras and saw a 94% reduction in speeding and a 14% reduction in injuries and fatalities

This is one of the reasons places have taken out red light cameras, as well. It was causing people to slam on the brakes.

As described, the cause of the accident is driving too fast for the conditions, inattentive driving and possibly following too close. Every US jurisdiction I have driven in requires a driver to maintain speed and spacing that allows them to stop safely if the vehicle in front of them comes to a sudden stop. If a driver needs to take evasive action to avoid a vehicle that is not stopped, but just slowing, that is one shitty driver. We are all better off if individuals like that are ticketed and get points on their license.

FYI, it's "eg:", not Ex.

This. I’m quickly learning Lemmy is populated with an interesting group of folks.

I work in government in a city where cameras designed to detect license plates for active warrants, stolen vehicles, and vehicles from Amber/Silver alerts have been deployed. It was crystal-clear from Council that those were the only authorized uses as a condition of their installation.

Within a week, the police were using them to identify cars for other purposes.

This paper seems to suggest so, but also mentions "Previous empirical work on this topic, which shows a diverse range of estimated effects [...]" - so it seems like other factors will play a role. (Disclaimer: I read only the abstract)

EDIT: Another paper seems to back up those finding.

The article says that even with just warnings speeding reduced by 31% on the monitored areas in general, and 64% on a specific stretch. So yeah they do reduce speeding, and like you said reducing speeding reduces accidents and fatalities.

NYC also did speeding cameras and are claiming a 94% reduction in speeding and an 14% reduction in injuries and fatalities

Really depends on where you put them, and if you couple them with other common sense changes like infrastructure redesigns and public outreach.

Personally, it helps reduce noise pollution in my residential street at all hours. We get a lot of hoons otherwise.

As much as I don’t belong in the community, the answer to that is to start reducing lane/intersections/roads until people start taking it seriously

You can reduce the number of speeders AND issue more tickets, which I'd say is the most likely outcome.

It will go the same way it goes in every other city that has tried this. After a few years they'll realize it isn't profitable so they'll pull all the cameras out.