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Yellow Vests Knock Out 60 Percent of All Speed Cameras In France (bbc.com)
Thelasko shares a report from the BBC: Members of the "yellow vests" protest movement have vandalized almost 60% of France's entire speed camera network, the interior minister has said. Christophe Castaner said the willful damage was a threat to road safety and put lives in danger. The protest movement began over fuel tax increases, and saw motorists block roads and motorway toll booths. Some protesters feel speed cameras are solely a revenue-generating measure which takes money from the poor. The BBC's Hugh Schofield, in Paris, said evidence of the vandalism is visible to anyone driving around France, with radar cameras covered in paint or black tape to stop them working.
"speed" has never killed. We are all "speed"ing around the sun at about 67,000 mph. The change in the change of velocity is much more critical to predicting survival for individuals in auto accidents. The technical term is "jerk". This is different from [de|a]cceleration. We are all accelerating toward the center of the earth at 9.8 m/s^2, which is about a 21.922 mph or 35.28 kmph change per second. Note that the record for highest G-force on a roller coaster is 6.3G, which occurred for a few seconds and is about 138 mph per second. The maximum pressure on different parts of an individuals body is even more predictive of mortality and injury thus the use of test dummies.