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▲ t-3 a day ago

What also works without needing a huge bureaucracy and fining people regularly is electronic speed detectors that display your speed and flash at you when you're going above the speed limit.

▲bryanlarsen a day ago | parent [-]

We've got those everywhere. Everybody ignores them. They're probably one of those many things that work while they're new, but stop working after people acclimatize.

▲iamnothere 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The trick is to occasionally (on an unpredictable schedule) put a police cruiser in the same vicinity if the average speed creeps up too much. This turns the readout into a legitimate warning. When you put them out without enforcement then everyone learns to ignore them.

▲bryanlarsen 17 hours ago | parent [-]

Police regularly giving speeding tickets lowers road speeds. If the police regularly hang out at speed indicators, then people will learn that and only slow down at the indicators. OTOH, with regular enforcement and without the speed indicators people will slow down everywhere. I'd rather have people slow down everywhere.

▲iamnothere 16 hours ago | parent [-]

I don’t think I said that you shouldn’t also put police elsewhere, did I? Did I say that?

▲t-3 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

They work on me and drivers around me. I regularly see people dropping their speed and being more mindful on roads with them.