Sorry, but "slamming your breaks" to go down to the speed limit cannot be considered safe driving, either. Yes, everyone makes mistakes, but slamming the breaks because you find yourself above the speed limit WITHOUT LOOKING IN THE MIRROR is irresponsible. But then, so is tailgating which is the most likely cause for a lot of rear-endings...

We can keep moaning forever about the details of speed limits, but the original topic was about someone complaining about speed cameras which IMHO are a very necessary evil to keep drivers on their toes. Yes, once driving at night I got flashed by one of them and lost orientation for a few seconds because of the sudden light, but I was driving too fast and deserved the ticket if I am to be honest about it.

OK, yes, I can agree to that - it IS often safer to go with the flow of traffic, even if it is above the speed limit.

But that is not what the original article seemed to be about, so I ignored that for my reply.

In general, the point IMHO remains that it is mostly the rule breakers that complain the loudest about some marginally related reason why they should be allowed to continue doing what they are doing.

How come it's always those who break the rules that complain the most about new techniques to uphold the rules?

"Speeding cameras are against the constitution" - so? Speeding is against the law and kills hundreds of people. Is your constitutional right more important than a hundred lives you endanger?

Just shut up and follow the rules!

Weeeelll... Given the amount of "things-not-quite-working-the-way-they-are-supposed-to", I might just switch myself into read-only mode and leave it at that ;-) For now... Thanks for all the advice and instructions to an obvious newbie! (And to add to the list of non-working items, I have had to refresh this page before it would let me finish writing this, and it deleted all my line breaks in the preview - go figure...)

Hey, I wasn't even sure if anyone read these Journals or not (I gotta look around to find where to read those, too, but that's not highest on my priority list). So, thanks for your answers, I found the spot in the preferences, and I noticed that my submitted story never made it out although I did receive points for submitting a story that was posted... Hm... :-) So, if the submitting system is broken, how do these stories get submitted?