There is a California city called Oakland. This place is a total disaster. When Oakland deployed cameras for 20 days, this is what they found.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/oakland-speed-cameras-22071343.php

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CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 31 pts · 176d

Case study in “Speed limit signs don’t set the speed drivers feel comfortable at, only suggest it.”

Street design is critical.

call_me_xale@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 176d (1 reply)

As someone who lives near Oakland, I'd caution to take these figures with a grain of salt. There are definitely plenty of awful drivers, but there's also a significant amount of anecdotal evidence from the community that a number of these cameras are miscalibrated. There's one in particular that's clearly within a posted 35MPH zone that snaps images of people going 25.

Steve@communick.news · 4 pts · 176d

You need total vehicle numbers for this to start meaning anything.

mrcleanup@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 176d (1 reply)

Clearly, they set the speed limits wrong.

Cort@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 176d

Either that or they build the roads wrong for the speeds they actually wanted

Hagenman@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 176d

Come to Orlando and be equally as or more shocked

Steve@communick.news · 4 pts · 176d

Seems typical. But we can't know without total traffic numbers to compare to. Is that 12k out of 1m, 100k, 20k?

classic@fedia.io · 3 pts · 176d

If they were concerned about speeding and not just an excuse for surveillance and money via fines, they'd install speed bumps

ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 176d

Oakland isn't a total disaster and you have no comparison for the statement, just a will to say bad things about somewhere you've never been. Grow up, mature a bit, and learn how to be critical instead of hateful.