Speed Cameras

alanaslan · 28th September 2021, 17:50

I saw today that the Police have admitted that the most profitable speed camera has for many years now being wrongly recording tall and flat vehicles speeds by as much as 150%. This has prompted calls for refunds, payment for time spent on driver awareness courses and in some cases calls for loss of earnings due to points banning drivers from driving.

I have to say that they put an ANPR Speed Camera on the M8 West bound about twenty years ago the speed limit on the motorway is 50mph where it was the unit was set at 60MPH in the first week it had recorded over 200,000 offences and over 1 million in the first month. The camera was removed the following month as it became apparent that it was physically impossible to process and send out the volume of letters required with the computers available at the time.
It was worked out that it would take five weeks nonstop processing and dispatching to send out the first weeks offences meaning that in eight weeks there would have been a year’s backlog.
I guess the man that was doing 146mph the fastest recorded by the unit, was very lucky.

I Remember being stopped in Paisley at 08-30 for supposedly doing 48 in a 30, at the time I was driving a GRP car and there were two cars passing me in the second lane. I also was surprised that seeing as the speed detector was in the weigh bridge area 40 yards from where I had turned right on to the road their claim was impossible as my car could not pull 6G, the silly men took me to court where I put my PHD to good use giving the court a Physics lesson. I also took great delight in explaining the system they had been using had only ever been tested on steel cars and had not been calibrated since they had bought it 22 months before it had allegedly recorded my speed. They gave me costs and loss of revenue as a consultant for one day at £750. The Sheriff was very upset with the young lad from the office for wasting the courts time as I had written to them explaining how the officers claim was an impossibility and that they had misread and misused the equipment. I later heard from my wife’s cousin who worked for the court that as a result of my case the local court had thrown out over 200 cases and revoked over 300 judgments. That evidence from the radar unit in question had been involved in.
You can give a man tools, but unless he knows how to use them they are useless.

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alanaslan Gets stuck in 75 Tourer Automatic conn, 75 Saloon Automatic Conn, The Monograme Spice Tourer Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Johnstone Posts: 670 Thanks: 57 Thanked 231 Times in 151 Posts	Speed Cameras I saw today that the Police have admitted that the most profitable speed camera has for many years now being wrongly recording tall and flat vehicles speeds by as much as 150%. This has prompted calls for refunds, payment for time spent on driver awareness courses and in some cases calls for loss of earnings due to points banning drivers from driving. I have to say that they put an ANPR Speed Camera on the M8 West bound about twenty years ago the speed limit on the motorway is 50mph where it was the unit was set at 60MPH in the first week it had recorded over 200,000 offences and over 1 million in the first month. The camera was removed the following month as it became apparent that it was physically impossible to process and send out the volume of letters required with the computers available at the time. It was worked out that it would take five weeks nonstop processing and dispatching to send out the first weeks offences meaning that in eight weeks there would have been a year’s backlog. I guess the man that was doing 146mph the fastest recorded by the unit, was very lucky. I Remember being stopped in Paisley at 08-30 for supposedly doing 48 in a 30, at the time I was driving a GRP car and there were two cars passing me in the second lane. I also was surprised that seeing as the speed detector was in the weigh bridge area 40 yards from where I had turned right on to the road their claim was impossible as my car could not pull 6G, the silly men took me to court where I put my PHD to good use giving the court a Physics lesson. I also took great delight in explaining the system they had been using had only ever been tested on steel cars and had not been calibrated since they had bought it 22 months before it had allegedly recorded my speed. They gave me costs and loss of revenue as a consultant for one day at £750. The Sheriff was very upset with the young lad from the office for wasting the courts time as I had written to them explaining how the officers claim was an impossibility and that they had misread and misused the equipment. I later heard from my wife’s cousin who worked for the court that as a result of my case the local court had thrown out over 200 cases and revoked over 300 judgments. That evidence from the radar unit in question had been involved in. You can give a man tools, but unless he knows how to use them they are useless. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk