Steve K wrote:
That's fine by me, as long as the behaviour alteration is "good". Since we're on about speeding, an example: a York newspaper quoted motorists who were complaining about plans to use unmarked police cars to catch motorists who were speeding; the police were being seen as "unfair" by these motorists.
That very much depends on where they're going to put their unmarked cars and when. There are times and places when it is perfectly safe to exceed the legal speed limit and the police and local councils are simply after a source of revenue. I don't see that it matters terribly if I choose to do 90mph on the M25 at midnight.
You have to bear in mind that speed cameras were invented to be placed at accident blackspots in order to reduce speed where it matters and the public in general are quite happy with this. Also bear in mind that the current speed limits were put in place in the 60s and haven't been revised since, except downwards in some places by local councils. If I were driving a 1960s car with drum brakes and narrow crossply tyres, I wouldn't want to do 90mph on the M25.
As far as B7 is concerned, those cameras we see in the Way Back could be the exact equivalent of the current town centre cameras to reduce crime. Presumably criminals like Vila have ways of avoiding suppressants, and wouldn't the drugged masses be perfect targets for muggings? We can only asssume from what we know of how the Federation is run that they are also used for less pleasant purposes.
Louise