Police call for more road cameras

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http://www.theage.com.au/news/nation...958947249.html

Originally Posted by www.theage.com.au

VICTORIAN drivers could be hit with more speed cameras under tougher measures being considered by the State Government, after a plea by the state's top traffic policeman to end the carnage on the roads.

Assistant Commissioner Noel Ashby said stricter measures were needed to prevent "a jumbo jet full" of people losing their lives each year.

Mr Ashby said it was a dismal fact that people aged 16 to 25 were not heeding the road safety message, with many believing they were "invincible". "Drivers might hate the cameras but the fact is it's one of the initiatives which have seen the annual road toll drop to the mid-300s from more than 700 a year in the early 1990s," Mr Ashby said.

Now, my take on this, is that Police are getting lazy and have no innovative ways of curbing crime, "accidents" and other law breaking activities.

Now there is no comment about additional driver training, no tri-bananas
, but comments about technology life savers like ABS. The problem with ABS is that it can scare a user that has never experienced it, also ABS effectiveness varies greatly with quality of tyre compound.

To me, it just shows that no-one, not even Victoria Police want to try and tackle the idea of improved education, because of the potential cost black hole, and the supposed "unknown" status of improvement it will supply.