As most of you know, Vägverket loves speed cameras and, generally, considers them the universal cure to everything from speeding to drunk driving to people driving without their seat belts on. Recently, the arguments for putting up speed cameras have become weaker by the minute. They don't really decrease speeding, they don't decrease road accidents, they don't prevent drunk driving and they don't prevent people from driving without their seat belts on.
The latest reason? It's, eh, wait, eh, good for, eh, eh, the, eh, environment!
Consider me a sceptic. First off, you have to take into account actually building the cameras as well as the extra signs telling people that speed cameras are coming up. Then you have to add the pollution coming from the big, fat trucks driving around with the cameras, erecting them all over the country.
Taking into account the fact that modern cars, at highway speeds, pollute less than old cars do at standstill, the overall effect has to be absolutely miniscule.
What kind of man-cow-excrements is next? Telling us speed cameras will cure AIDS and cancer, feed the entire third world and create worldwide peace?
I would, in all honesty, not be surprised were I to find out that Vägverket is secretly controlled by an evil Lord of the Speed Camera Cult trying to take over the world. Human sacrifice (mainly virgins and motorcyclists, I'm guessing) would probably be in there somewhere as well.
/JP
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