I piani per abbassare i limiti di velocità di 100 kmh si svelano mentre si muovono verso le telecamere AI per individuare i conducenti sui telefoni bloccati
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/plans-to-lower-100kmh-speed-limits-unravel-as-move-towards-ai-cameras-to-spot-drivers-on-phones-stalled/a1694375646.html
di zainab1900
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Saaamme as it ever was, saaame as it ever was,,la la la la la, la la la la la..
If you can stop people breaking 100kmh speed limit, what use is lowering it going to do? Smart cameras all the way.
Speed itself isn’t the issue, speed on the wrong roads or conditions is the problem. Some limits should be increased while others may need reducing, at least have studies and reasons behind changes rather than a knee jerk reaction that slower means less damage in a crash.
I guess I have become the old fart because I was initially quite against limit reductions but I’ve really taken to the 60kph tooter on the local roads. and I’ve been surprised at the percentage of the traffic that seems to obey it.
I still think the 30kph one is a bit silly but I’m ok with the higher ones coming down, going increments of 20kph faster at that speed makes fuck all difference in how long it takes to get anywhere anyway.
[https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1081408416706653](https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1081408416706653)
on top of that you’re just hurrying up to wait later anyways.
I’ve seen so many times people driving 100km/h as per the speed limit, then they see a camera sign and slam on brakes dropping down to 50-60km/h 🤦🏻♂️
I wonder if they’re regretting the 60km/h change on rural local roads already
Cameras detecting red light runners and phone usage would go much further towards making roads safer than arbitrary speed limit reductions which aren’t enforced anyway.
Yay more surveillance…
Every Irish transport policy starts with good intentions and ends with a report, a committee, and a minister going ‘sure look, we tried’.
Can we just not do any infrastructure anymore?
I hate how many people are on the phones while driving, but making the drive longer and more boring isn’t the right move to get them off their phones…
You see, hiring Garda and paying for cameras and enforcement costs money. Changing a few laws and calling it” job done” is free.
This is probably controversial but I think they should raise the speed limits on most roads (not in urban or built up areas) and actually police dangerous/risky/unpredictable driving.
Most motorways, intercity/inter town roads are capable of supporting driving faster and people will just do it anyway so police using cameras with fixed fines for things like breaking continuous lines, tailgating, drifting out of your lane, not over taking in the over taking lane and other behaviours that lead to accidents.
Not advocating raising speed limit on small windy rural roads which are already at a borderline suicidal 80kph already but roads that are closer to 4m lane width each side
> The second reduction – from 100kmh to 80kmh on national secondary roads – would have much wider implications, as these roads make up half the national network.
Surely this isn’t right? Every 100km/h road could have dozens of rural roads leading off it and all of those roads would be connected to loads of other rural roads that never go near a 100km/h road.
I can’t see any way this change has wider implications than the change from 80 down to 60.
Every single car sold in the country in the last 10 years is capable of exceeding the maximum speed we allow anywhere of 120km. Let’s put a stop to that being possible to start and go from there.
Good. It was a bad idea
As of life isn’t already hard enough simply getting around the country
Reducing the limits to 80km/h on national secondary roads (and 60km/h on all local roads) was a bad idea anyway IMO. There’s plenty of national secondary roads that are well fit for 100km/h (the N53 is one I use relatively frequently). Reducing the limit to 80km/h would just annoy people and increase the amount of reckless overtaking.
The only change I’d have gone ahead with would be the 30km/h limit in town centres. Makes them much safer for pedestrians and cyclists and makes the street a nicer place to be.
How about cameras that are in guard cars that flag no tax/insurance/reg of interest. Pretty trivial to implement, many countries have it
Jesus Christ they’ll have us going back to horses and carts next
An AI mass surveillance system. Nothing could possibly go wrong with that.