Before the release today I want to talk about a problem facing all of us road users, and that is of the police and their little cameras.
Now I haven't had many speeding tickets over my 14 or so years I've been driving, I got a few early on but besides that I've been ticket free since two thousand three (2003). Considering the amount of KMs I've clocked up it is surprising, because it is so easy to get tickets these days. Over here they now book you if you're 5KM/h over the limit. To put this in a frame of reference for Americans and other metric impaired citizens that is about 3 miles per hour.
Now to not go 5KM/h over the limit you pretty much need to keep an eye on the speedometer the whole time or drive 10KM/h under the limit. So basically they are forcing road users to drive way under the "government approved" speed limit.
So what do people think of police when they are putting these speed checking cameras at the bottom of hills on highways or onramps to freeways? I got a letter yesterday telling me I was fined for speeding a month ago or so on an onramp to a freeway, 8KM/h over the limit (which was 60KM/h). Apparently accelerating to the 100KM/h limit of the freeway I was about to get on is thought of as something you shouldn't be doing. What is worse is I can't even remember seeing a camera, usually they have a "you've just been through a speed camera" sign but the financial crisis has obviously made them cut back.
Now I look forward to the removal of some demerit points and a monetary fine.
I'm all for responsible road use, but speed cameras need to be removed from society as they are simply there to make money, not to save lives as the official reason goes. They are also unreliable, but who is going to take on the government in court? No one is going to respect the police force or the government when they are doing crap like this.
I'm _this_ close to instigating my plan to start a "RETRO"-country free of the stupidity of this society. Maybe soon we'll have an online beginning to it.