With nearly 20,000 automatic radars on its roads, five times more than in France, this country has declared war on speeding.
All the countries of the world strive to find the best solutions to make the road safer. Unfortunately, each year, several tens of thousands of people lose their lives in traffic accidents. Faced with this problem, everyone carries out their own policy. You only have to see the rules concerning speed limitations to realize the differences from one country to another: unlimited speed on highways in Germany, 100km/h in Australia, 120 in India, 80 in Bolivia, 130 in France …
Another size difference: the means implemented by the various governments to track down motorists who drive too quickly. If some countries, such as Denmark for example, rather bet on good manners and communication, others prefer repression.
Since the beginning of the 21st century, automatic radars have become weapon n ° 1 to confuse drivers overrun on the roads. In France, where the first radar was established in 2003, there are today nearly 4,000 fixed radars, a figure in very slight increase each year. It is far too much to believe a good part of the French, tired of receiving fines for small overruns of speed, but there is worse. According to a study carried out at the end of last year by Coyote, specializing in the manufacture of driving aid systems, France is seventh in the classification of countries with the greatest number of radars.
It is very far from the leader where nearly 20,000 radars were identified! It is not in China-one of the few countries in the world not to reveal its figures-neither in Russia (2nd) nor in the United States (4th). The title of world radars champion returns to … Brazil! The largest and most populated country in South America would have exactly 18,914 automatic radars. But you should know that with its area of 8.51 million square kilometers, Brazil is about 17 times the size of France. Its road network, with more than 1.7 million kilometers, is substantial but however far from being as dense as in France (1.1 million km).
In the country of football, carnival and samba, the steering wheel is limited to 50km/h in town, 80km/h on the express tracks and 120km/h on the motorways. But one of the big problems for road safety comes from the deterioration of the roads. According to a fairly recent study, carried out in 2023, 67% of Brazil highways are in bad or even very poor condition. The Brazilian government would thus use repression to dissuade motorists from driving too quickly on very often dangerous roads. This is why radars grow like mushrooms on the side of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Brasilia.