Waka kotahi says new road safety cameras that track a cars speed over a length of road are way more effective at reducing crashes than fixed spot speed cameras. The so called point to point cameras average a vehicles speed over the journey between two cameras. They're being installed along stretches of six roads that are considered high risk crash areas in the Auckland region. The cameras will be tested for about about three months and data will be gathered before they're used for enforcement and tickets start being issued. Waka Kotahi's head of regulatory strategic programmes, Tara MacMillan, explains in more detail how the new cameras work.

It looks like instead of pinging carelessness, we will soon be keeping people to the speed limit.

With the reducing of speed limits being pulled, at least this will give another way to reduce the impact of crashes.

Unlike the comment on reddit saying this won’t reduce crashes, I’m going to point out that it’s not designed to. Road to zero is about recognising crashes will happen, this move is about reducing the damage when crashes inevitably occur.

  • me_ow@feddit.nlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Nice, glad to see more countries adopting these. We’ve had them in NL for a few years now. In the beginning people of course complained, but seeing as they’re always clearly signposted it’s become not as socially acceptable to complain about as regular speed cams.

    You can also always immediately tell when you’ve entered one. Suddenly even the BMWs are driving 100. Especially on big roads like the A2 it’s funny, six lanes of cars driving the exact same speed.

    • Dave@lemmy.nzOPM
      1·
      1 year ago

      Since NZ is almost certainly modeling off overseas implementation, I’m curious; do you know if there’s a threshold, like if the average works out to be 1kph over the limit, do you get a ticket?

      • me_ow@feddit.nlEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Well yes, there’s a 3 km/h correction. But that’s a blanket rule, so it’s also for old speed cams and mobile equipment. I don’t know how other eu countries do it