|
|
|
|
| Author |
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: So. Cal.
Posts: 11,249
|
Speed Cameras Across Our Nation?
I don't remember anyone saying we needed them.
"When the country applauded $1.2 trillion going to fixing the roads, bridges and buildings, a lot of us were dumb enough to think that's what might actually happen,' he said." And the nation's deaths/mile traveled ratio is the best it's ever been. Can this be stopped? Apparently Britain has them and they.are.despised! https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10455557/The-speed-camera-nightmare-thats-coming-America.html Ps I'm tired of having to learn things from foreign press. I'm shocked - with all the car related stuff I read - that no algorithm steered me to an American media story on this. Shocked but not shocked I guess...
__________________
David 1972 911T/S MFI Survivor Last edited by daepp; 02-01-2022 at 09:13 AM.. |
||
02-01-2022, 09:10 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Linn County, Oregon
Posts: 48,539
|
It's all about controlling the masses...
__________________
"Now, to put a water-cooled engine in the rear and to have a radiator in the front, that's not very intelligent." -Ferry Porsche (PANO, Oct. '73) (I, Paul D. have loved this quote since 1973. It will remain as long as I post here.) |
||
|
02-01-2022, 09:41 AM
|
|
|
Lots of snow Porsche away
|
Something we have had here for awhile, and something long demonstrated to be purely financial with no positive impact on safety. In fact, just the opposite. Here they were legislated to stop putting them on highways as they cause accidents when motorists slow in an unanticipated manner.
__________________
76 911S 86 GMC K1500 78 XS750 cafe racer to be 79 XS750 because one is just not enough |
||
|
02-01-2022, 10:09 AM
|
|
|
Driver
|
There go any more Cannonball record attempts.
__________________
1987 Venetian Blue (looks like grey) 930 Coupe 1990 Black 964 C2 Targa |
||
|
02-01-2022, 10:11 AM
|
|
|
Lots of snow Porsche away
|
Go fast enough and the plate image comes out blurry and unusable....
__________________
76 911S 86 GMC K1500 78 XS750 cafe racer to be 79 XS750 because one is just not enough |
||
|
02-01-2022, 10:12 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Opelika, Alabama
Posts: 4,982
|
Quote:
 Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk
__________________
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." Wonka |
||
|
02-01-2022, 10:15 AM
|
|
|
|
Functionista
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: CO
Posts: 7,717
|
My brother was tagged on the way to Normandy in 2018. He was worried but the fine amounted to $17.
__________________
Jeff 74 911, #3 I do not disbelieve in anything. I start from the premise that everything is true until proved false. Everything is possible. |
||
|
02-01-2022, 10:20 AM
|
|
|
Back in the saddle again
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
Posts: 56,141
|
Quote:
It may depend on the setup and other circumstances.
__________________
Steve '08 Boxster RS60 Spyder #0099/1960 - never named a car before, but this is Charlotte. '88 targa  SOLD 2004 - gone but not forgotten
|
||
|
02-01-2022, 10:38 AM
|
|
|
I'm with Bill
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Jensen Beach, FL
Posts: 13,028
|
Not all hero's wear capes.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/motoring/man-parks-car-behind-speed-7858392 
__________________
1978 Mini Cooper Pickup 1991 BMW 318i M50 2.8 swap 2005 Mini Cooper S 2014 BMW i3 Giga World - For sale in late March |
||
|
02-01-2022, 10:40 AM
|
|
|
Banned
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: St Paul MN
Posts: 19,428
|
Quote:
|
||
|
02-01-2022, 10:45 AM
|
|
|
Registered
|
Quote:
I forgot to or didn't slow down enough as I entered one town. Austrian police officer was standing on side of road with a lollipop and motioned me over. Scared to death because our nanny from Bulgaria was in the car with us and didn't have visa for Austria. Paid about $40 to the officer on the spot and went on my merry way. They even had full size cardboard cut outs of officers back then on side of roads just to slow people down.
__________________
Matthew - drove Nurburgring with wipers on and no rain 1969 911E SOLD 2002 996 Cabrio 1995 993 Carrera 4 SOLD 2004 Land Rover Discovery II G4 Edition (Sold )
|
||
|
02-01-2022, 11:05 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Lake Oswego, OR
Posts: 6,071
|
These are a personal peeve of mine. DESPISE them.
|
||
|
02-01-2022, 11:15 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Texas
Posts: 11,257
|
 in Stuttgart of all places.. they sent sent me several angles.. Rika |
||
|
02-01-2022, 12:15 PM
|
|
|
Gon fix it with me hammer
|
There is a fotofinish at the end of the B500 schwarzswald hochstrasse.
Just before entering Baden Baden I think i paid 160 something to get the souvenir sent home. Totally worth it Very nice service for tourists on road trips |
||
|
02-01-2022, 12:42 PM
|
|
|
Registered
|
Maybe they're just trying to generate a little bit of revenue, you know, until the over 80k new IRS Agents start earning their keep.
__________________
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- "There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule" - Mark Twain |
||
|
02-01-2022, 01:01 PM
|
|
|
Lots of snow Porsche away
|
Quote:
My brother on his R1000 cut the bottom two anchors for his plate and hinged the top ones. Now if he is fast enough for a ticket, he is fast enough for his plate to fly parallel to the ground. So far that works lol.
__________________
76 911S 86 GMC K1500 78 XS750 cafe racer to be 79 XS750 because one is just not enough Last edited by gordner; 02-01-2022 at 01:14 PM.. |
||
|
02-01-2022, 01:12 PM
|
|
|
A Man of Wealth and Taste
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Out there somewhere beyond the doors of perception
Posts: 51,063
|
Quote:
__________________
Copyright "Some Observer" |
||
|
02-01-2022, 01:14 PM
|
|
|
Registered
|
I remember back in 2010 when California was going to boycott all public contracts with Arizona businesses due to Arizona's enforcement of Federal Immigration Laws.
That's when people asked about the speed cameras which were installed, monitored and run by an Arizona company with California getting some of the "profits". Of course all of a sudden there was talk of an "exemption" for that company.
__________________
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- "There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule" - Mark Twain |
||
|
02-01-2022, 01:40 PM
|
|
|
|
Registered
|
I got got tagged twice in Spain a few years ago. The locals must have known because they'd fly by me and then I'd slowly pass them.
I got two notices in the mail in Texas and blew them off for a few weeks since I couldn't read them. A neighbor read them for me and then helped me pay them online. It was 60 euros each if paid within the first 30 days. I paid them about 30 days late and they were still 60 euros. I guess they were just happy that someone paid them.
__________________
2014 Cayman S (track rat w/GT4 suspension) 1979 930 (475 rwhp at 0.95 bar) |
||
|
02-01-2022, 01:42 PM
|
|
|
canna change law physics
|
Red-Light cameras are now illegal in Texas. Not sure about speed cameras.
__________________
James The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the engineer adjusts the sails.- William Arthur Ward (1921-1994) Red-beard for President, 2020 |
||
|
02-01-2022, 02:25 PM
|
|
Fun Fun Fun
Ducati
1987 Porsche 930 3.3T
BimForce the Third, Esquire
1983 Porsche 911sc Cabriolet 3.0
1979 Porsche 930 3.4
1970/1982 Porsche 914-6/911SC 2.7 RS
