traffic cameras issue speeding tickets
 

the beginning of Big Brother

"A new "intelligent" speed trap is set to catch thousands of drivers in London.

Groups of cameras will track cars over a wide area - such as a housing estate - instead of "flashing" them at just one spot.

Designers say it will be impossible for drivers to outwit them by slamming on their brakes as the cameras record each car's number plate and "talk" to each other via radio-wave technology.


Computers then calculate how fast the vehicle was travelling between each point. If a driver is found to have been speeding they will be fined "

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London has cameras everywhere. They even monitor license numbers coming in and out of town. You can barely walk 10 yards without seeing a camera aimed at you there...

JoeA

1. In a street near you soon..... technology, plus do-gooders, plus profit margins, plus government control, plus bribes to bad cops, equals speed cameras in your town too.

2. And as in Britain and Holland the excuse will be lives saved. And it will be a lie. Speed cameras have not reduced road deaths in the UK. See point 1.

3. The latest UK government guy responsible for traffic is recomending devices fitted to car computers to make them obey speed limits.

So in London you are likely to get fines because some smart arse has used your registration number on his car. Thats why they stopped independants producing number plates - only authorised sources could sell plates and you have to provide proof of ownership to get the plates.

What a farce. Pay a tenner to a back street guy and he will get you any plate you want.

maybe this will be included on the patriot act extension? read the fine print.

Steve,

What we over here in "the colonies" do not understand (other than cricket) is why people pay so much (at times thousands of dollers) for a personalized license plate? What are we missing here?

Thx,

JoeA

According to another thread on here, it appears that Pelicans say "don't speed and you can't get caught"

B.S.

true

also, try taking a speed camera picture case to court and ask to see the charging "officer" (as you have a right to face your accuser) can't be done. grounds for dismissal

Many of you SoCal Pelicans are familiar with the FasTrak lanes around SoCal.

I asked for (and got) a detailed list of charges recently. I was stupid enuf to have an extra transponder in my briefcase in a car equipped with a transponder when I went thru the lanes on the way from my mailbox in Nevada to my other car (in Kahliforneeah).

Of course, both transponders responded to the interrogation, and I was billed twice for the one pass. I thought this would be no prob to fix. It was no prob. The guy on the phone called up the photo for that moment, and I was the only car in sight at 3am.

Then it got interesting. He said I was lucky I didn't get a speeding ticket. I stammered, how would you know how fast I was going?????

The first transponder interrogator is at the entrance to the lanes (ostensibly to alert the sphincterpolizei that there is a non paying customer coming thru the lanes). The second transponder interrogator is midway thru the lanes, almost 3 miles away. You have already figured this out. The operator had the ability to see the fixed distance timed averaged speed. Mine at 3am was somewhat above the 65MPH limit.

I can't wait for them to start issuing those.

I have a funny story about recieving 4 transponders (for all of my motorcycles) in the mail one day on the way to work. I fly for a living. I put them in my briefcase, and went to work. A week later, I got home and put them on the bikes.

The first bill was insane. Like $205 for the four transponders. The GW Bridge, Holland Tunnel, the tollway north of Philadelphia, 2 parking garages in Miami, two crossings of the Golden Gate Bridge, and a pass thru the 91 Express lanes in SoCal.

All 4 bikes simultaneously across 5 consecutive days across the country. They did rebate the tolls, but I had to argue with the ebonics-trained female operator that it just wasn't possible to do, even for an airline pilot. She finally started laughing, and said, yes, not even her husband could screw up that bad.

Re: traffic cameras issue speeding tickets
 

I fail to see the problem. I thought that London traffic is so congested that it is physically impossible to speed?

LeRoux