It's not just in Denmark that drivers have been hunted down. In Honolulu, Hawaii, 30,000 drivers were caught in the same speed trap in just one week.
Speed cameras are good business. In fact, they are such good business that the police camera vans in Denmark are even included in the budget with minimum targets for the effort.
Things are also going well with the now total of 107 mobile photo vans on Danish roads. This way the police are collecting money. Read more about it here .
But the money pales a bit when you consider how fast things are going in Honolulu, Hawaii. Here, speed cameras are such a resounding 'success' that the police have flashed 30,000 drivers in just one week.
The new speed cameras on the island were first put into use on March 1st of this year. And the 30,000 drivers are just an average of the speed bumps that are driven through.
The crazy thing is that speed cameras in Honolulu are actually quite forgiving. They don't flash if a driver is going more than 17 km/h too fast.
– If we had lowered the tolerance to 12 or 8 km/h, we would have caught twice as many speeders, says Transport Minister Ed Sniffen to local media outlet KHon2 .
Right now, the speed cameras are only being set up on a trial basis. But to put it into perspective, the cameras have already caught twice as many drivers as Hawaii police pulled over for speeding in all of 2024.
If Hawaii makes speed cameras a permanent solution after the two-month trial period, it will cost drivers $250, equivalent to 1,600 kroner, when they drive just 5 kilometers per hour too fast.
In Denmark, speed bumps were last raised in January 2022. This was based on a proposal from the then Social Democratic government. Specifically, all speed bumps increased overnight by 20 percent.
