Speed cameras, or traffic safety cameras as they are actually called, measure how fast passing vehicles drive, and if it goes too fast, a fine is issued.
The cameras are currently quite easy to outsmart. If you want to drive too fast but avoid a fine, all you have to do is slow down to a permitted speed when approaching a camera.
This is easy to do because there must always be a sign some distance before each camera, notifying the driver that it is time to check their speed.
So more people can be fined
However, the Swedish Transport Administration and the Police have an idea that can make the cameras more difficult to deceive, and ensure that more speeders can be put there, reports Carup.se.
What you want to do is start measuring the average speed between two cameras. All cars are photographed by both the first and the second camera, and if too little time has passed between the two images, it has gone too fast, and then there will be a fine.
– You photograph all the cars at the first camera, so you can see which ones arrive and how fast they drive, says Eva Lundbergresponsible for speed cameras at the Swedish Transport Administration, to Carup.
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Speed cameras that measure average speed already exist in other European countries, and introducing such in Sweden must have been discussed already when the first cameras were set up in 2006.
Then it was decided not to introduce these with reference to the need to protect personal integrity and the FRA Act.
However, the Swedish Transport Administration has not released the concept, which it is estimated could save seven lives a year on Swedish roads. They have therefore asked for government assignments to speed up development and introduce such speed cameras.
It depends on the government
The Swedish Transport Agency clarifies that no new law is needed for the introduction of speed cameras that measure the average speed between two points.
What is needed, however, is a review of the technical and legal conditions, as well as “IT development resources” at the Police and the Swedish Transport Administration. However, the development would be accelerated by a government assignment to the two authorities.
– We do not have any such proposals under my government, but that is noted from the Swedish Transport Agency’s reports, but the government has not made any preparatory measures in that proposal at the moment, replies the Minister of Infrastructure Andreas Carlsson on a question from Carup.
With this in mind, it looks like it may take some time before we get cameras in Sweden.
– It’s just an orientation proposal, we want to be able to investigate the possibility, but in order to do so, we need to be commissioned by the government, says Eva Lundberg to Carup.
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