There have been many reports of motorists using the lack of traffic on the roads during the Covid19 lockdown to flout the speed limits and now with more traffic back on the roads there is a danger that some may continue to drive at excessive speeds even after things are back to ‘normal’.
Behavioural Science in transportation (understanding the behaviour and motivations of transport users such as motorists and rail commuters etc) is a fascinating subject which plays a big part in the engineering and design of roads and their ‘furniture’ in an attempt to gently persuade drivers to modify their driving behaviour to something more appropriate.
There are many such psychological tactics in place to combat speeding but could we be doing more? What other engineering solutions could be implemented to stop excessive speeding? How do different countries tackle speeding on their roads? What could we learn from them?
mmm my only experience of driving in France was in coach trip to Paris , and I wouldn't describe it as quiet , the roundabout issue is most interesting and no doubt if we decided to give that a try we would have months of incidents .
The automatic reduction of speed by automatic restriction is quite interesting , but the technology would also enable your monitoring device to give data and also potentially issue penalty notices instantly , unless it just never lets you exceed the speed limit of the zone you may be in , but I can see all sorts of problems as to what sort of control you could have , could you drive slower than the speed limit , how intelligent do you want it to be ? and there is no protection from some sort of cyber hack that could literally cause a mass pile up .
mmm my only experience of driving in France was in coach trip to Paris , and I wouldn't describe it as quiet , the roundabout issue is most interesting and no doubt if we decided to give that a try we would have months of incidents .
The automatic reduction of speed by automatic restriction is quite interesting , but the technology would also enable your monitoring device to give data and also potentially issue penalty notices instantly , unless it just never lets you exceed the speed limit of the zone you may be in , but I can see all sorts of problems as to what sort of control you could have , could you drive slower than the speed limit , how intelligent do you want it to be ? and there is no protection from some sort of cyber hack that could literally cause a mass pile up .
