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  • Great to bring the speeders down, but I saw numbers as low as 12 km/h show up there. If you're only doing 12 in a 30 zone, you don't deserve the money either.

  • this won't change anyone's behavior. they may slow down around there but as soon as the camera is in the distance they will resume at their regular speed. there is no one on this earth who goes exactly the speed limit and not one mile per hour faster

  • more like the money theory

  • I want to go there..... :D( Sorry for my bad English, But I am from Slovakia)

  • I wouldn't speed because of the guaranteed chance of being caught, not for the chance to win the money.

  • Fun is also about games. And games is all about rules.

  • Thats awesome

  • The drivers would just slow down when they see the sign.

  • I'll keep driving through there again, again , again, and again.. If the reward was good enough.

  • Also - if everyone obeys the speed limit, what money is there to win?

  • So basically it a reason to photograph law abiding drivers. Sounds idiotic to me. 

  • @Inimoulleb well you're retarded

  • Encouraging others through positivity has a wider impact than negativity. The premise is to reward good behavior and that will eventually reflect on others in multiple ways. Doing the right thing is always good.

  • indeed not really gamification, but a nice idea and implementation anyway

  • Dumb assholes

  • Shut up haters. Its much better to drive safely instead of drivning on à child or something. Im 10 years old and even i can understand that

  • gimmick

  • for the undisciplined motorist

  • If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem....

  • If it slowed people down and stopped an accident then it was worth it.

  • 25 km/h cmon... they were driving 30 before witch is rediculisly slow..

  • The point is not to slow everyone down and insure that they waste more time travelling, out of fear of retribution or out of greed. The point is to prevent accidents on the road, by making people know more about accidents and how to prevent them, or making the driving practical test harder, etc. This is enforcing the letter of the law but totally not the spirit.

  • just the act of putting the camera there will make people stop speeding, as soon as they are away it goes back to normal, stop patting yourselves on the back and get back to the drawing board

  • Fucking slow speed limit...

  • Great idea

  • Big brother is watching

  • It's not "fun" so much as positive reinforcement.

    On top of that it legitimizes the practice of using citations as a stealth tax on communities since most of that money goes to cover state budgets.

  • THIS IS A FUCKING TERRIBLE IDEA ITS STEALING FROM PEOPLE. You can't take my money away and give it to someone else thats bullshit socialism.

  • @Somespatanwarrior

    Just drive legally, and you won't lose any money ;)

  • @Somespatanwarrior Oh you pitiable moron. I feel sorry for your mind.

  • @yoanxp I agree but maybe it would be an even better idea to increase the speed limit in the USA on highways like they do in other countries and then turn the cameras in town where the speed limit is slow into this idea....

  • @suresoundsgood Just get rid of speed limits in non-urban areas. The autobahn as a whole has less than half the fatalities per measurement of road as the USA. When people drive a constant speed, they get complacent. People aren't allowed to get on the highway and just get where they have to go ASAP. Someone that isn't using their cruise control is paying attention far more than someone who has cruise control on, no hands, knee steering, sipping a big gulp, putting on make up and texting.

    _Truth

  • take your shoes off!

    no!

    i'll give you $100!

    Yes sir! =P

  • very cool man

  • Definitely a cool concept, but I'd say greed drives the drivers to drive slowly.

  • opposite of the fast line experiment :p

  • Not so much "Fun", but the "money" factor. Money makes the world go round, and can make people do almost anything.

  • This has already been proven in normal speed showing technology, it's called a feedback loop can be found at wired magazine's website.

    So this idea is neither original or clever. Sorry dude.

  • Also there's nothing fun about getting a ticket ... Dumb fun theory

  • Was there a problem with car accidents caused by speeding in this area? If not, all this did was slow down productivity. Also the amount of paper to write over 24 thousand citations/letters, is a ridiculous and unnecessary amount. I like the other Fun Theories but this one may have been changing behavior, but not for good reason.

  • I saw a 48

  • Well, let's say this works, how long would people obey the limit if no one else broke it?, thereby making the lottery small? jus sayin

  • @lalit008 And as soon as they stop obeying the limit, the lottery gets big again. So there's always a strong incentive not to speed.

  • The problem with this is, if everyone knew about those then people would slow down just to get entered into the lottery. Then if you had the patience you could drive by it a dozen times a day just to get more entries to improve you odds.

  • SVERIGE<3  :D

  • amazing idea

  • I think the hefty ticket for speeding had a lot more to do with speed reduction than the 'fun' of possibly winning some money.

  • I think it's a good idea but... it's not really the fun theory.

    The fun theory is doing something because it's fun, like the piano staircase.

    You take the stairs because it plays music as a piano and it's fun.

    In this case it's a classic doing something because you might get a reward (money) and not because it's fun to drive slowly...

  • @yoanxp Its fun because you get a chance to win money if you obey the speed limit, thus for making it "fun"

    If winning a lottery is not fun, then what is?

  • @nonumbersattheend That's not fun. It's rewarding. It's pleasing. It makes you happy. But it's not fun. Fun requires entertainment. Walking up a set of stairs and playing a song while you do it, that's fun. Winning money? Not so much so.

  • @yoanxp well, in fact, fun itself has a lot to do with rewarding experience...

  • @yoanxp

    actually I'd think it's pretty fun just to see if you would win

  • @yoanxp Yes, But the money is the key for fun in this situation. You can do a lot of fun things with money :D

  • Yeah, being ticketed for going 5 mph over... fuck where ever this is...

  • This is such a beautiful thing! I have had friends who died from speeders, drunk drivers, red light runners... it's very dangerous living in a large city with yeild-to-oncoming traffic lights, this touched my heart, I hope more places and systems implement something like this!!!

  • Check out my website for some great lotto tips!

  • This is an amazing idea, and maybe going 2mph more than permitted may seem like nothing, but the purpose of this is making people doing the right thing.

  • 30km.h??????? how stupid you have to be to limit the speed to 30km? WTF? i would understand if it was very small dangerous road... but now its just stupid...

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  • You can read all about it in my new book "Faster than the speed of love."

  • Read quite a few negative comments. Would love to hear those peoples' good ideas.....

  • While a great idea, it just feels like bribing people to do the right thing...

  • 1) Mormons and Muslims, among other religions, do not support gambling. This is a violation of these people's religious freedom because you are in effect forcing them to enter a lottery and thus to gamble.

    2) The Fun Theory is about the intrinsic reward of people doing the right thing because it has become more enjoyable or pleasurable to do so. When an extrinsic reward is introduced, you have violated the prime directive of the Fun Theory.

    3) Money is the worst reward. Look at Congress.

  • @SmallCityLiving 1. You're entering a lottery that costs you nothing but cooperation to not risk the lives of pedestrians and other drivers. The point isn't to catch drivers going 32 mph, but possibly 40mph.

    2. Fun also has a vague definition and varies person to person. You can't say that the Fun Theory is violated based on what you define as fun.

    3. And why bring Congress into this? Politics and fun do not mix.

    Overall, I see no detriment in this experiment~

  • @SmallCityLiving this isnt necessarily a lottery/gamble as much as it is the possibility of getting rewarded for doing the right thing.. so this is in no way a violation of anyones anything, youre just looking for a possible wrinkle in a novel idea.

  • I love all of you idiots who try to justify and rationalise speeding. "if only the speed limit was higher and more realisitic" "now we will watch the speedo instead of the road and cause more accidents" JUST STOP SPEEDING it KILLS. FACT. Plan ahead and allow more time for your trip. STOP RATIONALISING BAD AND DEADLY DRIVING

  • @fergalson It's actually psychological fact and the proof is when speed limits were first enforced a lot more people started dying in crashes than before the speed limits

  • @fergalson I'm not trying to justify speeding. Sure speeding kills, but it's also a fact that most motor-related accidents involving deaths, has nothing to do with somebody speeding. Infact the the percentage of speeding = death- accidents is very low.

  • if we had more realistic limits, instead of generic and outdated, I bet most of the people would respect it.

  • now everyone is going to be watching speedometer instead of the road, and I bet disracted drivers kill more than people who are going slightly too fast.

  • @gedning I love all of you idiots who try to justify and rationalise speeding. "if only the speed limit was higher and more realisitic" "now we will watch the speedo instead of the road and cause more accidents" JUST STOP SPEEDING it KILLS. FACT. Plan ahead and allow more time for your trip.

  • Now that we're all DRIVING at 25 kmh, how bout BIKING? Cyclists go just as fast!

  • Me recommend put autogun with paint, for first time, and with bullets, for second! Mwa-ha-ha

  • Do you know the music of this clip? Arcade fire ? thanks

  • Cars are not meant to go slow! Cars ware build for SPEED and fast travel!

    They build unsafe roads and then blame drivers for "speeding".

    Safest roads have no speed limit!

  • @falconidaes I love all of you idiots who try to justify and rationalise speeding. "if only the speed limit was higher and more realisitic"  "now we will watch the speedo instead of the road and cause more accidents" JUST STOP SPEEDING it KILLS. FACT. Plan ahead and allow more time for your trip.

  • @fergalson Every speed higher then 40km/h kills. STAY AT HOME!

    My government has the same excuses as you have. So in my country 300km travel takes 5h.

    If you make more then 100km a day, there is no such thing as travel planing!

    I am a driver since 1998, and there is only one conclusion: SLOW DRIVING KILLS!

    But you have to much resistance between ears to understand it, and I have not room to explain it. Have a nice day!

  • Great idea but obvioulsy a victim of its own success. If people slow down in order to win then there will be no tickets from which to draw the prize fund....

  • @cupsandballsmagic

    At which point success is achieved. People will still abide to the speed limit just to take that small chance.

  • Lol thats funny but dont do it in 1st world countries i mean... try to do it here in Argentina LOL, the average here with a speed limit of 60km/h would possibly be 90km/h lol

  • Kör lagligt tjäna deg, perfekt! <3

  • Doesn't it seem strange that we are rewarding people for doing something that they are legally obligated to do? 0_o

  • @InvisiMan2006 Doesn't it seem strange that when we DON'T reward people for obeying the law, they DON'T do it? 0_o

  • @pimcub2011 Good Karma is reward enough for good behavior :)

  • yeah I know but sometimes I read it was

  • awsome!

  • I love the concept behind it. I don't care for the cameras though. On the other hand it does save gas and forces people to not only slow down in their vehicles, but it may also get people to slow down internally. Yes I'm on the fence. :)

  • I think they are just slowing down to see wtf the sign says.

  • I saw a single-digit speed in a split second. LOLWUT that car must've been crawlinggg

  • I am the 474747 one who watch this video fun :P

    Vote up if you the 474747 one too xD

  • @NeverStopsBelieving there cannot be two. :|

  • we have speed cameras in England. Except the money goes to the government. And they make a lot of money, so they put up more cameras that make even more money. In fact the cameras don't just log speed, London is a "Congestion Zone". When you enter the city, a photo is taken of your car and you must pay £10 per day. Very Corrupt!

  • here's the thing, considering how inaccurate speedometers can be, they would just be ticketing the people that are DRASTICALLY speeding. which is what a speed cam does. the difference is, they are taking that money and using it to reward the people that truly obey the law. i'd expect that they would be only entering the people that are unquestionably following the law. either way, they would be ticketed for a traffic cam, but this way people have an incentive to avoid that gray area.

  • i guess Kevin thinks *statutory* law is the law of the land. (oops!:) Kevin thinks that victimless crimes should be punished by taking money from citizens and giving it to the state. good for him: he paid attention in prison cam-- i mean school. Kevin Richardson: winner of the Stasi Society Award. the Rothschilds thank you, Kevin.

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  • People do it 'cause the money... this isn't fun

  • @lluitajove money, fun, it doesnt matter.. live or die, that really matters

  • @Chicharrero91 I'm agree, my comment said something like yours. So I think that people should not value the money they earn by going slowly, but you should value the lives that do not threaten.

  • The camp music in this video makes this idea appear totally gay

  • The Speed Camera Lottery: Making highway robbery more fun since 1959.

  • Speeding is not a crime.

  • it's not exactly "fun" if there's a cash incentive... then it's just about money.

  • That's an awesome idea, but I think people here would go apeshit and QQ if anything closely resembling photo radar is set up where I live again.

  • it should also work with people who text and drive

  • 1:59 ZERO????

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  • This is like a reverse-tragedy-of-the-commons­...

    (People slow down to win, but as more people try to win, chances and payout go further and further down, decreasing the incentive.)

    Still a great idea though, as half of it is psychological, and it's also less likely the public will feel bitter about the radar checkpoints when most of the time (when passing through at normal speeds), they actually have positive feelings about their presence :)

  • That works because the people think that it's a radar! XD

  • @RandomnessUK if the money motivates them to stop speeding, once the money is gone (because no speeding tickets are being paid) those people will speed once more, and people will be "killed on the streets" again. Come to think of it this system (if it works as intended) is doomed to be a paradox.

  • Nice how they didn't show anybody winning that "jackpot" part of the lottery. Yet another money grab.

    Also, 25 km/h is absurdly slow, our side streets in an extremely busy neighbourhood with houses flanking both sides is 50 km/h.

  • Here in Saudi Arabia, we have cameras if you exceed the speed limit , you're fined !!!!

    It has better effect , though

  • @Neverregretperson

    Here in Europe we understand what people are saying, it has better effect!

    listen carefully from 0:55

  • These people didn't slow down because they thought it would lead to cash. They slowed down because The Man was watching and was going to give them a citation.

    Thank you, VW, for proposing to monitor my every action and veil it all in "fun."

  • omg, pepole really dare to go 32 where 30 is allowed, those damn reckless speedsters!!

  • @zerge83

    Congrats, you don't know what 'average' means.

  • @westborn

    congrats, wow you must be really smart to find out that one. You know it's a number that indicates how fast were MOST cars passing, yes there have been ones with 36 and some with 28, but they are the extreme cases, MOST cars were passing with 30-34 that gives an average of 32. Now these numbers may changed to 34-26, and 28-32 which means MOST cars are now 2km/h slower. How is that different from what I said?

  • @zerge83

    If you're going to be this defensive, at least try to be right. The average doesn't tell you at all how fast MOST cars were driving. It would be 32 even if 600 cars were going 28 and 400 were going 38, but in this extreme scenario NONE were going 32. Your new example is still an average, if very conditioned (28-36km/h, no slowing traffic, no real speeders...), not like you first statement 'omg 32 in a 30 zone', implying NOBODY was even speeding all that much. That's how it's different.

  • @westborn fine

  • @zerge83 and omg, there are 32 dislikers here!!!

  • Its in kph in Sweden and on the road you can read skola 30, which is school, max 30 kph.

  • This is evidence that rewarding good behavior is more effective than punishing bad behavior.

  • The statistics are strong with this one. It certainly can't be the fact that people are driving slower because they are being monitored and being cited for speeding (a loss). It must be the reward (a gain). Prospect theory and lurking variables?

  • Just what we need - more big Brother bullshit! Keep this idea Sweden.

  • Yeah, and driving @ 30 km/h is practical. Right...

  • @dgnmwn if you win, it is practical, specially in those streets where theres a lot of people and a lot of cars, if u want to go faster, buy a bike or start running

  • @Mrthestyle1 I know. But driving too slow isn't practical, that's what I meant. ESPECIALLY where there's a lot of cars. Traffic jams because EVERYONE WANTS THE BIG PRIZE. It introduces more problems than it solves.

    I hate new pseudo-science people thinking "progressively" about how they'll change the world. Wanna change something? Give guys 10 years of prison per km/h over the speed limit. That would teach them a lesson.

  • @dgnmwn you've got a good point, it is true, but i dont think that something like punishing people that way (of course i kno that ten years is a joke, but im talking about people paying) because they go over the speed limit, a good solution would be posting their pics on a big add on the street ''people that aparently need to go faster that the other'' all week and every week it changes, they would never do that again >:)

  • But now that street will go extremely slow O.o

  • The Problem is that once everyone stops speeding, everyone also stops making money.

  • @riccokane And people stop getting killed on the streets, boo hoo.

  • @HowlingDonkey, It's is Europe, they don't have privacy, LOL

  • I have experienced a similar project that issued citations for running a red light, regardless if the light was actually just yellow after you passed it. Thus, people would have to slam on their breaks the instant they see yellow. While the rates of people running red lights significantly decreased after installation of the program, the number of rear end collisions rose. Controlling speed is only purposeful if you are trying to reduce speed related accidents. Where is that statistic?

  • i paused it at random teams, seems like the speed limit is 30

  • I think the idea is just cute. Even though everybody knows things like this is no solution it's just a fun and different way of dealing with problems in society. Like it!

  • This guy is a good submissive child for the state. Traffic camera's are dangerous for society

  • KPH - 0:47

    MPH - 1:05

    I'm confused

  • @kokafones I'm pretty sure the animation was made by an American but they actually used the lottery in Sweden.

  • I should get paid $100 a day for choosing not to do a crime. Totally.

  • @Airclot Yeah. This has nothing to do with fun. It's just about greed.

  • @Airclot if you reduce fatalities due to speeding or otherwise violating traffic laws, why is there a problem? it's just an inverse ticket: A deposit on a dvd that is returned to you if you bring the dvd back on time works the same way.

  • we take your picture and you pay us money! What fun!!! I hate this guy and his little doodle. The worst video of this series. Go drive off a cliff Volkswagen.

  • fun?  I think they are confusing 'fun' with 'money' as the universal motivator.

  • Greed Theory, but it's good for safety

  • Privacy issues anyone?

  • @HowlingDonkey You're already caught on CCTV 100 times a day.

  • It's the few things like this that make me still have hope in to world :)

  • The music of the video sound to me to Swedish bands like Lacrosse. Does anyone know the performers of the music? Thanks

    Oscar

  • Good Word

  • Cool idea

  • NO, NONONONOOONONOONOONONONO

  • @TheDragonAlan In some areas there are Minimum Speed limits as well.

    If you are impeding the flow you are a problem. Just because you don't have anything to do but feed the cat and collect Hummels doesn't mean that line of cars behind you has the same intents. If you are doing 20 mph less than the flow of traffic YOU ARE THE JAM!

  • @TheJonathanBorichef By that token, every pedestrian should be told to walk down the street wearing blackout goggles, just in case they see your plates.

  • @KineticBoom

    The camera is positioned with the intent of recording and storing those license plates images.The same can't even remotely be said for the pedestrians walking down the street.

    Apparently that OBVIOUS difference needs to be explained to you?

  • Was it really 'fun' that changed their behavior, or the threat of being ticketed? I also agree with the incentive of money being the reason rather than fun, but I guess winning money is fun.

  • But doesn't reducing the speed of traffic decrease the traffic capacity of a given road?

    Think about it for a minute. You just increased the time a road-space was occupied by 22%. Approaching peak times you just reduced the capacity by a fifth.

    Of course, my biggest problem these days involves people not getting up to the speed limit. It annoys me to do 45mph in the center lane of a 60mph Interstate freeway because some idiot in the middle lane can't hear my horn.

    I need to buy a louder horn

  • I think the incentive here is money not fun. Good idea though!

  • that's fantastic!

  • Too bad it's poorly trained, selfish drivers that are the root cause of accidents. Speeding is simply a symptom. It's great that they have a giant flashing green/red light beside the street for every car passing to focus on.

    Give your heads a shake.

  • Brilliant!

    However, if everyone does the right thing then there will be no prize money! Or very little anyway...

  • gay...

  • It's a clever idea, but a more clever one would be to do away with these blatant road-hazard extortion devices masquerading as 'safety' cameras. We all know they cause more accidents than they prevent.

  • Wow, what a perfect system of theft for Precrime.

  • Hey, don't laugh, I won 56 million dollars in this lotto. I'm on easy street now!

  • if nobody gets tickets nobody wins the lottery???? F THAT

  • This is pretty smart! Passing it along...