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.

  • @[email protected]
    7•1 year ago

    Nice.

    On the Road to Zero point. The only way to reduce crashes to a near zero quantity is to reduce the number of cars and car trips. Which can only be achieved by providing viable alternatives to driving. Which would ideally be intercity, regional, and city trains that don’t just cater to the 9-5 work day commuter.

    • @[email protected]OPM
      3•1 year ago

      I would take trains if there were reliable services between cities I want to travel between.

      If this happens in my lifetime I’d be stoked.

      • @[email protected]
        2•1 year ago

        At minimum I want intercity services on our existing train lines.

        I don’t want to drive between home in Whangarei and mum/family in Auckland. There already exists a train line, let me pay for tickets.

    • @[email protected]
      1•1 year ago

      I just want to add that viable alternatives to driving means that those who don’t want to drive, or are unable to drive, or who should not be driving, they then do not have to drive.

      The people who scraped through and eventually passed the driving test, but even after a number of years driving are barely competent then don’t need to be driving.

      When driving isn’t necessary for personal mobility, then the licensing and testing can be much stricter, or, as strict as necessary for safety without as much backlash.