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[JohnM]

This guy has a lot to answer for! See obituary


In 1964, however, predicting the world in “1984”, he drew a more Orwellian picture: “How would you feel,” he wrote, “if you had exceeded the speed limit on a deserted road in the dead of night, and a few days later received a demand for a fine that had been automatically printed by a computer coupled to a radar system and vehicle identification device?”

[l'angelo mysterioso]

This guy has a lot to answer for! See obituary


In 1964, however, predicting the world in “1984”, he drew a more Orwellian picture: “How would you feel,” he wrote, “if you had exceeded the speed limit on a deserted road in the dead of night, and a few days later received a demand for a fine that had been automatically printed by a computer coupled to a radar system and vehicle identification device?”

a bit better than if my speed had caused me to spin off the road, maim myself and kill the people in the vehicle with me at a guess

[Haloman]

a bit better than if my speed had caused me to spin off the road, maim myself and kill the people in the vehicle with me at a guess

Which is of course what happened with 99.9% of journeys before speed cameras were ever invented as a cash raising safety measure. Nobody ever made it home alive, ever.

Indeed, since Oxford powered off their cameras, not one single driver has made it to their destination alive. It's just that the Tory government want to keep it secret because they're evil and everything.

[JohnM]

a bit better than if my speed had caused me to spin off the road, maim myself and kill the people in the vehicle with me at a guess

My original purpose in posting this was to recognise the work of a great pioneer in an industry that has keep me broadly solvent since I started in it 1962. I picked that quote because , well, it seemed prophetic.

However, what evidence is there that the five thousands or more fixed speed cameras have in any way reduced accidents, deaths or injuries?

[ckn]

Write-up on The Register about him

[l'angelo mysterioso]

Write-up on The Register about him

what a hugely influential man