When it comes to speeding tickets, Australia is way ahead of us.
There's an article that says they have point-to-point speed cameras that keep track of heavy vehicles and track the average speed between two points to give out speeding tickets. These cameras prevent motorists from momentarily slowing down where a mobile traffic camera only records a vehicle's speed at the time it passes the camera.
Doesn't that make our photo radar cameras seem quaint now.
They are going to apply this tracking to all cars and on two trial locations in NSW. They say the intention is reduce road deaths. Studies show that point-to-point cameras work in reducing fatalities.
I see one article says that India has the highest level of road deaths - 40%. According to WHO, if you lived in Guinea, the mortality rate is 37.45 per 100,000 inhabitants.That's the highest in the world according to WHO, as is the African continent. Then the Middle East, then Asia, and the rest of us after that.
In the U.S. it is quite high - 14.2, Italy is 5.0, Canada is 4.7, Australia is 4.5, the Netherlands is 3.4. Norway has the point-to-point system and it is the lowest in the world at 1.5.
These might be older numbers as it looks like Iceland is now the safest country at 2.1, then Norway, Switzerland and Sweden all at 2.2. Norway is also ranked as the strictest country for driving rules.
Our Grimsby photo radar camera was last lying on the ground, having been vandalized. If we have such a violent response to this, I wonder what would happen with point-to-point cameras. I hadn't thought of Canadians as this feisty.
A beautiful carousel in Minneapolis a few years ago.
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