Gardaí announce locations for nine new static speed cameras throughout Ireland

Are these to be average speed or just standard cameras?

That is one dangerous stretch of road.

that matches with Garda press statement:

- Static and average speed cameras are one of a range of Garda technology, enforcement, visibility, and education initiatives to reduce road deaths as part of the Government’s Road Safety Strategy. 

An Garda Síochána has today announced the locations of nine static speed safety cameras, which are aimed to be fully operational by the end of 2024.

• Wicklow - R772, Arklow Road, Aske, north of Gorey

I'm local to this one and happy to see they are doing something with this road. It attracts boy racers at night and there's been a lot of bad accidents on this road over the years. The road badly needs to be re-lined with new cat eyes at the Scarnagh cross roads. It's difficult to navigate this stretch of road at night.

surely most drivers these days are somewhat savvy and use the likes of Waze which will simply warn them well in advance they are approaching a speed camera and they simply slow down till they pass it. Seems like a waste of €2.4 million to me.

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Wasn't there mention somewhere that the cameras could theoretically also use AI to detect phone usage, or was the specifically for the red light cameras?

Edit: it is in fact for the 9 static speed cameras (for now)

Maybe the €2.4m could be used to upgrade the sections of the roads where these black spots are.

Because these guys aren't the smartest tools in the shed and if they know there is a speed camera on a road they will avoid it.

They’re most likely ultra aware of where speed cameras are and certainly won’t be caught by a static camera.

I remember the original static camera deployment. They just gave up on them in the late 00s for some reason. Some had become basically pointless - the one on the old N2 had a fraction of its old traffic - and some needed to be altered due to the road massively changing - the two on the M50 and the one on the N4 - but they all just went.

Isn't that the idea, to get people to slow down? We just need way more of them. Average speed ones too.

The goal of speed cameras is not to make money, it's to make people slow down and therefore reduce accidents.

If people are getting notified of cameras and then slow down, mission accomplished that's the whole point of the cameras in the first place!

Static speed cameras are neither. It is a lazy way to make governments and safety authorities look like they are doing something about road safety.