The truth about Speeding fines and Speeding Cameras revealed
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Title: The truth about Speeding fines and Speeding Cameras revealed
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Author: Kylie Monet
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The truth about Speeding fines and Speeding Cameras revealed
As we have covered in our e-book “Speeding Fines =96 What You
REALLY Need to Know”, the current road rules system does
not work =96 it is NOT legal and it is NOT effective. The
death toll is NOT going down by any significant amount
similarly, serious injuries are NOT going down and a record
number of motorists are being booked for speeding each year
=96 this PROVES that the current speed detection devices are
NOT a deterrent.
What they are though, is a GREAT revenue raising tool. The
governments earn around $2 million a DAY from speeding fine
revenue but, what are they doing with the money? The money
is NOT going to make our roads safer and WE want to change
that.
So, what IS the answer?
We believe that the answer lies in education and training.
You can take ANY profession that involves an element of
risk and you will see a proportionate amount of training
that must be done BEFORE you can qualify for the position.
A surgeon has to complete 6 =96 8 years of training before
they can pick up a scalpel and operate on someone, even a
hairdresser must complete a minimum course before they can
pick up a pair of scissors just to cut someone’s hair. BUT,
there is NO real level of training required to drive a car.
It has been proven that the most dangerous thing you can do
each day is hop in your car and take to the roads. So,
based on the information detailed above, this would suggest
that you should be trained for in excess of 8 years before
you can do that.
Now, that is obviously not practical =96 but CLEARLY neither
is the minimum standard that is being used today. Just as
the government provides public schools to educate us and
public hospitals to look after us, we FIRMLY believe that,
with all the money they have collected so far from speeding
fines, they should provide free driving training for
EVERYONE before they even receive a driver’s licence.
Learning how to reverse park from your Mum and Dad or
having 2 - 3 lessons from a private instructor =96 that many
people can’t afford to pay for =96 simply doesn’t cut it.
Would you allow yourself to be operated on by someone who
learnt surgery from his dad but had no formal
qualification? Of course not!
We need to have a detailed, formal driver training program
in place that every single person must complete BEFORE they
are given a licence to drive a car, bike, truck etc. on our
roads. One of the fundamental parts of this driver training
would be to allow young drivers to attempt to exploit their
limits and those of their vehicles in a controlled
environment. Most people are NOT idiots (despite the fact
that the government still chooses to treat us as such) and
if they can see for themselves that they can’t REALLY do
what they thought they could in a car in a controlled
environment, they will be FAR less likely to try it out on
a public road.
But THEN, if they were not only given the opportunity, but
ENCOURAGED to continue improving their skills =96 again, by
way of proper driver education undertaken in controlled
environments =96 we would find the base level of competence
on the road would improve DRAMATICALLY and then the road
toll really would DECREASE.
Most of you would agree that people perform better when
they are given incentives. Sales people tend to get better
results when offered a performance based bonus, employees
will work harder if they have an employee of the month type
award to strive for and clients will be more loyal when
offered a VIP customer status. Most of us agree that this
makes logical sense yet the government does NOT do this =96
all they ever do is punish us for what they BELIEVE is bad
behaviour.
Think about this for a moment. Have you ever watched a
child take his or her first steps? Eventually they fall
over but the parent doesn’t yell out “You idiot, you fell
over. You’ll never be able to walk.” In fact, we would be
HORRIFIED if they did. No, instead, they say “Yeah, that’s
it. Keep going. Try again, etc.” They offer words of
encouragement for doing the right thing. The reality is
that the best training is rewards based training, NOT fear
based.
So, what if the government introduced rewards for better
drivers? What if you received a discount on your
registration if you haven’t been involved in an accident =96
not you haven’t been speeding, but you haven’t been
involved in an accident =96 because after all, that is what
we are REALLY trying to stop isn’t it, accidents.
What if the government rewarded you with the ability to
drive that little bit faster than everyone else (on open
roads) if you had completed certain courses and could PROVE
that you were a focussed, competent driver? Do you think
some of these strategies might work? They would HAVE to be
more effective than the current ones =96 which clearly DON’T
work!
Now, we’re not talking about letting people run around at
high speed in the back streets but if you can prove you
have a high performance car and you have A) the interest
and B) taken the initiative to improve your driving skills,
should you not be rewarded for that? If you start your own
business or invest money should you not have a right to be
rewarded for that, over others who just do a 9 =96 5 job?
We have very detailed ideas about what needs to be done but
the governments will not even be willing to listen to us
until they NEED to. They will only NEED to when they start
losing some of those hundreds of millions of dollars in
speeding fine revenue. Once you have all played your part,
taken a stand for your rights and started to object to
these fines, then the government will HAVE to stop and take
notice.
Then we will be speaking to them about implementing our
ideas which will certainly work better than the current
systems in place. Should any of you wish to discuss these
ideas in further detail, pleas e-mail us with your
concerns, questions or suggestions. In fact, once we see
that we are making an impact by people around the country
objecting to their fines, once we see front page headlines
that the government is now LOSING hundreds of millions of
dollars in speeding fine revenue rather than earning
ANOTHER hundred million form illegal speed cameras, we will
actually be looking at running public seminars to further
educate people on the flaws with the current system and our
specific strategies on how to implement a fairer system
that works for everyone.
About the Author:
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