I was watching a report on the TV during lunch today, where they were showing the behaviour of some drivers along a stretch of road within a day.
It was a speed camera operated by a person inside a clearly marked van, and they were noting down the people breaking the speed limit etc. They showed a few videos:
- One man was putting a jumper on while doing around 80mph in his car
- Another in a large estate car put his brakes on so hard after noticing the parked van that he crashed into the barrier and nearly caused an accident with three other cars. No doubt the car was a complete write off, and I bet he was still fined after being caught by the speed camera in the van.
- Another car also brakes from doing 126mph down to around 100mph.

It got me thinking while I was driving back from a few errands how in actuality, car manufacturers and such don’t do much to stamp down on speeding. My Corsa which grumbles at me when I do 70mph, apparently can do up to 140mph. … Since when does a car need to go that fast? By law, you can’t do more than 70mph on the motorway…. so why have cars that can do twice that speed? What is the point?
With all the technological advances within the past decade, why not invent some sort of device that limits the speed someone can do on a certain road? We have GPS, people can figure out which road you’re on if you’ve broken down, so why not use it so tell a car not to go above a certain speed limit? All new cars could be fitted with something, and despite criminals probably removing such devices, it might actually help. With all the new technology these days, the government etc aren’t doing nearly as much as they could be doing in order to stop people speeding so much.