DickyNick:
When motorists get caught for doing whatever it is, whether be this or speeding. This “oh it’s just a revenue raiser” is the crappest come back. Basically you’ve been caught and you know you have and the best you can think of is oh it’s just to make money?how about actually just owning up and being a grown up and admitting your standard of driving was below the standard that is acceptable and safe. No no no it’s someone else’s fault though.
No matter what vehicle your behind the wheel of it’s dangerous to follow too close. We see the results of that every single day. Is it a revenue raiser to fine people for it? No but money is the only thing that might get it into people’s thick skulls that following too close is more likely to end up in a crash than keeping your distance.
That is why I posted this -
ROG:
If the authorities really want to stop drivers driving closer than 2 seconds apart then the technology is here to do just that in the form of fixed cameras that can detect vehicle 1 going past it and then save the last five seconds of recording if vehicle 2 passes it within 2 secondsReason for saving the 5 seconds prior is so that it can be seen that vehicle 1 did not cut in front of vehicle 2
With a fixed penalty it would pay for itself very quickly