Comments by "Laurence Fraser" (@laurencefraser) on "The Lifesaving Tech Drivers Hate" video.

@ZestyLemonSauce happens for rich people. usually when it shouldn't.
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@azuarc Interestingly, turns out speed limits in the USA are routinely set ... I think it was 10mph lower than they should be... because no matter what the traffic engineers did, enough drivers would go at least 10mph over the set speed limit that it wasn't safe for anyone else to not do so. So they set the limits lower to compensate, so when you're going 10mph over the speed limit... you're going at what the speed limit should be. Of course, they also frequently determine what speed limits should be by measuring the speeds drivers go at without them, finding the average, and setting it just slightly lower than that. This is a bit of a problem, because what should actually happen is that the road's speed limit be set by its intended use, and then the road itself designed to encourage drivers to remain close to that speed.
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@CMG78 or are attempting to avoid all the malicious nonsense car manufactureres have taken to including in the vehicles that reduce their utility and convenience. And I don't mean the safety features and environental stuff, I mean the things that prevent you from repairing the car, or can lock you Out of the car with far too much ease when they shouldn't... or charging you full price for a car that they've actively disabled features on but can reenable those features digitally... if you pay a repeating subscription fee... or flat out unsafe digital interfaces that really should be seeing the car fail any and all certification due to how often they require the driver to take their eyes off the road to deal with basic vehicle controls (or similar issues that amount to 'the car is being run by a PC and the car manufacturers don't no jack about making non-terrible PCs') and on and on and on.
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Red Light cameras are banned in a bunch of places too, largely because of how ridiculously they were abused.
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Better question: should you even have those highways?
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... How on earth do you not Already have such laws? I know we do here. Can't have television screens or the like in the driver's field of view. Made somewhat awkard by vehicles that have reversing cameras (with screen) rather than mirrors, and the modern tendency to use basically android tablets to control things instead of physical buttons. (A pracitce that needs to die in a fire, they're pretty much universally implemented Badly such that you have to take your eyes off the road to control fairly basic functions of the car.)
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US traffic engineers did something very basic that succeeded spectacularly (for all it's effects were fairly limited), actually: They noticed that basically everyone went 10mph over the listed speed limit basically all the time, and started listing all the speed limits as 10mph slower than they 'should' be so that drivers would actually go the speed they were supposed to. It worked.
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well... it certainly comes closer to that than cars do, at least. (stations without platform screen doors, level crossings, and a variety of other points where trains interact with 'things that are not trains' can all lead to fatal consequences if one interacts with them poorly while drunk, after all, and various driver/software/hardware faults Can caus trains to occassionally do things they really shouldn't, such as speeding, though is certainly far less common.)
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This, of course, assumes the carrot actually Exists. It's not at all uncommon in such schemes for the carrot to vanish somewhere between the point where people agree to the scheme based on its existence and the point where it would actually have to be delivered... often at, essentially, the very last moment.
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