D = R * T except in parts of Maryland...

[WB5HQH]

"For each ticket, Mr. Foreman digitally superimposed the two photos - taken 0.363 seconds apart from a stationary point, according to an Optotraffic time stamp - creating a single photo with two images of the vehicle.

Using the vehicle’s length as a frame of reference, Mr. Foreman then measured its distance traveled in the elapsed time, allowing him to calculate the vehicle’s speed. In every case, he said, the vehicle was not traveling fast enough to get a ticket."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...acy-/?page=all


As Werner Heisenberg said "Are you certain about that?"

[KB1VFZ]

That was a good read, thanks

[NC5P]

In some states the tickets are civil only, not administrative (motor vehicle code) so they are not really enforceable. That is true in this state, where the city of ABQ turns them over to a collection agency to harass people. The worst that can happen is your credit score drops. I've heard though that people with sensitive jobs (security clearances for example) may have to pay them or lose their jobs. They won't take them to civil court because they won't enforce them either.

By the way, my son got one in a school zone. The ticket was from an APD camera van set up there. The school zone speed is 15, the normal speed limit is 35. The sign on the street says school zone, 15 mph when children are present. The date on the citation is a wednesday, right in the middle of spring break! The schools were all closed that week. Seems the city cops had a bright idea to make a lot of money.

[AG3Y]

I can't say a thing without getting political, but the general consensus is that a lot of communities down near D.C. are making a LOT of money off of those things!

IB4TL

[KF5GWN]

A friend of mine works in the automated traffic enforcement unit in Montgomery County Maryland. He said it was funny how at the beginning the command staff was saying "It's not about the money. It is to slow people down." But as soon as the program was demonstrably working (fewer citations issued) they had to move the cameras because revenue was down.

[KF5REP]

There is a town south of Houston that had a van camera they set up on I-45 every weekend to enrich the city's money pile. Worked fine until everyone learned to drive with their headlights on during the day and it would blur the camera image making the license plate unreadable.

[W2BBQ]

There is a town south of Houston that had a van camera they set up on I-45 every weekend to enrich the city's money pile. Worked fine until everyone learned to drive with their headlights on during the day and it would blur the camera image making the license plate unreadable.

Hmmmm. me gets idea. 1st to rush to patent office. Beat out udder greedy hams. Delvelpoe some sort of lighting scheme that retrofits into existing tag light lighting which blurs the plate, at least to a camera.

[M3KXZ]

Of course, people could just drive within the speed limit and not get tickets in the first place, rather than driving too fast, getting tickets and then disputing them. Does anyone honestly believe that those speed cameras are so inaccurate? Think about it....modern electronics, well desiged systems......what's the problem? Sure, there are cameras that are in areas where maybe there really isn't too much danger from a bit of excess speed, but if you're within the limit anyway, what does it matter? And if you're over the limit.....well, just take it on the chin....and maybe think how you'd feel if you hit a child at 45mph instead of 30mph. Hmmmmm. I think there are bigger rip offs than speed camera aimed at motorists.

[N0WVA]

Of course, people could just drive within the speed limit and not get tickets in the first place, rather than driving too fast, getting tickets and then disputing them. Does anyone honestly believe that those speed cameras are so inaccurate? Think about it....modern electronics, well desiged systems......what's the problem? Sure, there are cameras that are in areas where maybe there really isn't too much danger from a bit of excess speed, but if you're within the limit anyway, what does it matter? And if you're over the limit.....well, just take it on the chin....and maybe think how you'd feel if you hit a child at 45mph instead of 30mph. Hmmmmm. I think there are bigger rip offs than speed camera aimed at motorists.

Yeah, they wouldnt fudge the calibration, now, would they?

http://blog.motorists.org/6-cities-t...es-for-profit/

[AG3Y]

I'd feel terrible about hitting a child at ANY speed. But that ain't the issue !