This is a large experiment conducted by the government in recent years: radar machineswith. They are used to control speed on roads and are deployed in selected areas and at specific times according to the risk of an accident. They are equipped with the technology of reading speed limit signs and directly “flashing” vehicles. Thus, they work completely autonomously without the intervention of a person, a driver (paid a a private company) having only to provide driving. It The test phase started in 2020 mainly in the west France, and the government has just published the first results (more than two years already).

More than a million checks in 2020

In details for 2020, There are 63 machines of this type in France. There were 26 in the Normandy region, 19 in Pays de la Loire and 18 in Brittany. Since then, the government has deployed 215 in 2021, in the center, north, south-west and east of France. These measures will be extended in 2023 in the Paris region, as well as in the southeast. In regions where this is already in effect, the number of cars will increase even more. The first available are the 2020 results for the first three regions mentioned above. Over a million controls were conducted by these “external control machines,” as the government described it. So where do we flare up the most in France?

Especially on roads with a speed limit of 80 km/h.

This is the case during this test period Normandy, which goes first. Or rather departments Primorsky Seine and some Sleeve. They were respectively the subject 164,126 and 142,836 inspections in 2020, our colleagues from Western France report. It is followed by Ayr (134,068), Ills and Vilen (133,721), then Calvados (123,825 checks). Out of this million checks, one thousands of gross speed violations. These are those that exceed the maximum permitted limit by 50 km/h. Most of the controls have been carried out performed on roads at a speed of up to 80 km/h, head of the Government. Checks in populated areas or on the highway were much less frequent. This system must eventually be rolled out throughout the metropolitan area, as the government wishes 400 in operation by the end of 2023in addition to the goal 5200 stationary radars (including 1000 decoys).