Don't know about the States but the speed cameras here don't rely on radar or laser detection. Instead, a stretch of speed sensors on the road that you definitely cannot miss, I'm gonna test it out this weekend ... Find one on a deserted road and drive through it purposely to see how that thingy works backwards.

 

I do not like these one bit. Seem very much like big brother is watching- at least the red light cameras have warning signs at the intersections...

 

Cameras on freeways!!!! What's up with that. Damn, they get you everywhere now. Is this stuff legal??? How can they be so accurate going across 4 lanes of freeway traffic???

 

I just read in yesterday's paper that Honolulu is also going to install these cameras. Both, the red light infraction and the highway speeding cameras are to be set up after the 2 competing companies are finished bidding..
sounds like an international conspiracy.....

 

The freeway radar cameras here in Texas are used to monitor traffic flow and are not (at least right now) used for speed enforcement.

 

if they can pick out what brand of cigarettes you're smoking from high orbit, picking out a car and a license plate is piece of cake.

 

My father is engineering this product. He says that there is still legal problems with this new devices,

1. Getting a camara ticket is not reliable at night
2. Getting a ticket via camara MEANS you are Guilty AS CHARGED with no possiblities of going to court. Getting a ticket by an officer means that you are signing the ticket as a PROMISE to show up to court, not admit guilt. So the debate right now is getting a ticket on camara admitting guilt with no chance to plea?

There was a lawsuit already and the defendant won the case!

Don't hate my father.

back-cracker

 

Still illegal in SC

Somebody took them to court on it before they ever finished putting them in so some of them are not even hooked up. It will give you an ear cleaning radar alarm in the X band coming up I-77 into Charlotte, NC though.

Luckily the cops here all have K or Ka band so you can still tel the difference.

 

Now if some enterprising electronics guru would just hurry up and come up with a device to disable these nasties things would be rosy again.

In the meantime vandalism is probably the only defence the public has.

How many rules and how many cameras will there be in another 10-15 years?

 

NY Times had an article about surveilence cameras on buildings a few months back- there are many bocks in Manhattan where your every move is seen by overlapping videocorders. But at least they don't give out tickets- if you speed on a remote highway and there is no one to clock you... (analogous to a tree falling in the woods with no one to hear the sound?)