Phone detection cameras are a gold mine, but will they change drivers behaviour?

In the first week from December 1st to December 7th of mobile detection cameras going live thousands of people we’re snapped using their phones whilst driving, lucky for these people they will just received a warning letter.

3,304 people were snapped in the first week of the cameras going live, this would have cost motorists over 1 million dollars in fines in just 1 week and over 16,000 thousand demerit points.

The warning period ends in March 2020.

Double demerits start this Friday and drivers would lose 10 points for operating a phone whilst driving if we weren’t in the warning period.

Early tests seem to suggest that drivers are not getting the message, maybe it’s because they know they will just receive a warning.

If drivers don’t get the message than these cameras will clean up the roads pretty fast at this rate. The biggest hurt is the demerit points for this offence not the small fine, it will only take 3 snaps if you full points and you will sitting at the bus stop.