The grace period is now over. Starting Sunday, the city will be issuing tickets through it’s automated speed camera program. Oakland’s automated speed cameras switched on back in January, but now, speeding drivers will start getting citations. The cameras are placed at 18 spots across Oakl and, chosen based on where injuries are high. They will monitor cars going 11 miles or more above the speed limit; when a driver is speeding, the cameras take a picture of the license plate so the city can send a ticket. Fines range from $50 to $500, depending on how fast a driver is going. It’s part of a five-year pilot program in six California cities, including San Francisco, aimed at getting drivers to slow down. The city says in the first five weeks the cameras were on, it issued 140,000 warnings. “I think the volume of warnings that we’ve issued over the last month speak volumes in terms about the rampant speeding that is happening here in the city of Oakland and, ultimately, you know, the goal is to change behavior and get people to slow down, because really it makes a huge difference,” Oakland City District 2 Councilmember and Public Safety Chair Charlene Wang said. “When someone is driving at 50 miles per hour, when they collide with a pedestrian, there is a three in four chance that they will kill that person bring that speed down to 25 miles per hour and it is much more likely that the pedestrian will survive,” Wang continued. ...read more read less