A town near where I live, that I drive to and through periodically, has begun to use cameras to ticket speeders. While this is something I fully support, it does test my maturity as I have, in the past, sped on those very roads and could very easily do it again simply from familiarity.

The trick is that we humans tend to measure speed sensually and not logically. We have all experienced getting in that new car and, without noticing it, found ourselves going ninety miles an hour when we thought we were doing sixty. Thus, in such a situation as adapting to speed cameras, we have to condition ourselves into a logical process. Much the same way we had to condition ourselves into the physical process of putting on the seat belt. Now we do that without even thinking. Such adaptation takes time, discipline, and maturity.

Newer cars have a wonderful feature to help with this; they display the speed limit right in the dash display. What would be even handier is if display then modified the speedometer to the speed limit so that everything under the speed limit was green, up to ten miles an hour over was yellow, and everything over that was red.

Since no one ever listens to me, I will just get on with adapting to what I have.