I'm for automated speed enforcement (even as someone who speeds), but attaching it to a human undoes a lot of the good.

Nothing is stopping the cop for going to a place with a certain demographic and setting up shop.

Shouldn't that be entire point of enforcing speed limits. Setting them up in dangerous locations where demographic in general is speeding?

Why isn't the method used to find those places also subject to bias?

Widespread speed enforcement needs to be almost algorithmic in it's spread. And that algorithm would have to be closely watched. Saying "put a speed camera at every stop light" would heavily police urban centers for example, but essentially exclude wealthy communities that sprawl out with miles of stop signs between multi-acre properties

Also means they can't prove who was driving

To the people downvoting this: this is the U.K. law in this area. If you weren’t the driver, you must tell the police who was driving. If you don’t, you’re the one who gets the speeding ticket.

This is easily defeated by registering your car overseas, as is the case with most fast cars you see in London.

Brexit will put the kabosh on much of that I imagine. When the borders are closed to the rest of Europe it will be quite easy to make cars from unfriendly jurisdictions illegal on UK roads or to require the equivalent of a visa to bring a car registered in one of those uncooperative nations into the country.

Even without Brexit it is illegal for a British resident to drive a foreign-registered car on British roads. Though the law is rarely enforced, it does exist. Many EU countries have similar laws- and yes, they do apply to cars registered in other EU countries.

Actually banning foreign-registered cars driven by non-residents from the roads would require withdrawing from international conventions that long predate the EU, and result in British tourists abroad not being able to drive a rental car until they pass a local driving test...

> Even without Brexit it is illegal for a British resident to drive a foreign-registered car on British roads. Though the law is rarely enforced, it does exist.

-Norway has a similar law, with the interesting application that if you, a Norwegian resident, is caught driving a car registered abroad in Norway, you're on the hook for the import taxes which would apply if the car were to be put on Norwegian plates.

In a way this makes sense, as (fossil) cars are taxed to high heaven and then some, doubly so if they are well-powered. If the law didn't exist, everyone wanting a muscle car would just buy it in Sweden at half the cost.

Similar to the law we have in the Netherlands- otherwise everyone would just register their car in Germany.

You can get a two-week exemption for a borrowed/rented car, and there is a somewhat longer grace period if you bring your car with you when you move.

Unlikely, as we lose access to potential sources of cooperation from the EU and we have a government in thrall to the dangerous driving lobby.

I was waiting for a response to post this organisation, which definitely has the ear of a number of seemingly influential MPs in this country: https://twitter.com/theabd

There was a case in the UK recently where a cyclist was knocked off their bike. Both the owner of the car and their partner claimed the other was driving and in the end they got away with it.

The unfortunate reality of car crashes in the U.K. when the victim is a cyclist. I could rant for days on how cyclists are second class citizens :-/

If this meant that we had reasonable speed limits in all areas based on current conditions, I might be more cool with that.

We do not.