Speed Limit Enforcement

[Xtreme]

Enforcement from the air :confused:

Ridiculous Speed Sign - YouTube

[vnx205]

:D:D:D

I was going to post a comment about the lines on the road somewhere near Goulburn that are used in conjunction with Aerial Speed Limit Enforcement. I was going to suggest that I assumed that if an observer in an aircraft timed you covering the distance between two lines in too short a time that they would radio a ground unit that would then pull you over.

However, having watched all of your video, I think that approach is probably more effective. :D:D:D

[MR LR]

This is a brilliant idea, HOWEVER i think instead of speeding it should blow up all the right lane hogs (those not going past people), and all the people sitting below the speed limit unnecessarily and baulking other vehicles (Learners for instance), however if a person was at the cars limit it should be okay, bring on this technology hahaha

Cheers
Will

[It'sNotWorthComplaining!]

[quote=MR LR jnr.;1647247]This is a brilliant idea, HOWEVER i think instead of speeding it should blow up all the right lane hogs (those not going past people), and all the people sitting below the speed limit unnecessarily and baulking other vehicles (Learners for instance), however if a person was at the cars limit it should be okay, bring on this technology hahaha

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[vnx205]

This is a brilliant idea, HOWEVER i think instead of speeding it should blow up all the right lane hogs (those not going past people), and all the people sitting below the speed limit unnecessarily and baulking other vehicles (Learners for instance), however if a person was at the cars limit it should be okay, bring on this technology hahaha

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Except maybe this?


http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/7/16/2005444/Drive.gif

:D:D:D

[Davo]

I teach people to drive for a living, and have just received permission to mount a rocket launcher pointing straight back in order to vapourise all those drivers who think that what they're doing is so important that they need to intimidate a learner because after all when they were learners they never had any trouble on the roads, oh no no no. :p

[THE BOOGER]

I just like it:D

[It'sNotWorthComplaining!]

I teach people to drive for a living, and have just received permission to mount a rocket launcher pointing straight back in order to vapourise all those drivers who think that what they're doing is so important that they need to intimidate a learner because after all when they were learners they never had any trouble on the roads, oh no no no. :p
I'm teaching my son and I know what you meanabout other drivers, we keep to the left and stay on Speed limit. He was slow when 1st started and put on the road with all sorts of new things going on around him, cautious.

I reckon there should be a gattling gun fitted to every land rover. To take care of those toyo drivers and patrol drivers that think they are the king of the road and bust their poopers in anticipation in the must to get ahead of a land rover driver. See it on the road all the time, a landy doing the spped limit and a cruiser etc behind has to race ahead to be in front of the landy drivers

[superquag]

I call them 'minesweepers', 'cos they roar off way out in front.... and trip the hidden speed camera for you !

[p38arover]

We had it (without gunships) on the F4 (now M4) many years ago. It was reintroduced a year or so back.

[Davo]

You're dead right there on both points.

Unlike some of the odd things that state governments cough up, I found that I liked this initiative, which makes a great point: Office of Road Safety (http://www.enjoytheride.wa.gov.au/)

(No helicopter gunships, though!)

[superquag]

.... and have just received permission to mount a rocket launcher pointing straight back in order to vapourise all those drivers who think that what they're doing is so important that they need to intimidate a learner ....... :p

Lacking imagination....:p

Three tanks, containing crotyl mercaptan, isopentyl mercaptan, and methyl crotyl disulfide, plus a blending valve to roughly mix them equally together... and a jet sprayer to atomise the resulting oily brew... aimed so as to be drawn into the cabin of the Idiot behind.

The smell can be detected for over a kilometre, so at 5 or so metres it should be devastating. :twisted::twisted::twisted:

Their car will stink for days, if not weeks.

[Davo]

Their car??? Think LandCruiser, or roadtrain!

[superquag]

Does it matter?- they won't be in it.... doubled over by the roadside, heaving and choking.....:twisted::twisted::twisted::twisted:

BWAaaaHahahahahahaaha.....

[BMKal]

I call them 'minesweepers', 'cos they roar off way out in front.... and trip the hidden speed camera for you !

yeah - I love em too. Was following a heavily lifted & modded 100 series for a good part of the journey home to Kal yesterday afternoon and my radar detector was set off twice when oncoming cops turned it on him. He only got pulled over once out of the two pings - must have been lucky on the first one.

Actually I didn't think I'd see him again after first coming across him in he hills between Perth & Northam - he was struggling to get up a hill and sitting behind a bus in one of the overtaking lanes when I went past him. But he caught me once we got out of the hills and went screaming past like there was no tomorrow - so I followed at a respectable distance. :angel:

[VladTepes]

I teach people to drive for a living, and have just received permission to mount a rocket launcher pointing straight back in order to vapourise all those drivers ...

Not with WA gun laws you didn't !

[Davo]

yeah - I love em too. Was following a heavily lifted & modded 100 series for a good part of the journey home to Kal yesterday afternoon and my radar detector was set off twice when oncoming cops turned it on him. He only got pulled over once out of the two pings - must have been lucky on the first one.

Actually I didn't think I'd see him again after first coming across him in he hills between Perth & Northam - he was struggling to get up a hill and sitting behind a bus in one of the overtaking lanes when I went past him. But he caught me once we got out of the hills and went screaming past like there was no tomorrow - so I followed at a respectable distance. :angel:

Yes, it would be a lifted Cruiser being driven like that. That type of Outback Hero will be up here for tourist season at any moment. Always amusing.

[digger]

yeah - I love em too. Was following a heavily lifted & modded 100 series for a good part of the journey home to Kal yesterday afternoon and my radar detector was set off twice when oncoming cops turned it on him. He only got pulled over once out of the two pings - must have been lucky on the first one.

Actually I didn't think I'd see him again after first coming across him in he hills between Perth & Northam - he was struggling to get up a hill and sitting behind a bus in one of the overtaking lanes when I went past him. But he caught me once we got out of the hills and went screaming past like there was no tomorrow - so I followed at a respectable distance. :angel:

Id be careful, the current radar and laser speed detection sets have inbuilt feature which 'radar detection detector alerts' (even im confused!)

It comes up with at least an RFI indicator and that gives enough reasonable cause to stop you and turn your car inside out looking for it.. heafty fine and confiscation if detected.

We used to get a lot of them... Just a friendly warning, dont get caught!!!:eek:

[Davo]

Thanks. I couldn't remember if they were legal or not. I just keep to the speed limit . . . though it's not always easy to tell what it is in places like Broome.

[V8Ian]

I have an old Yanky detector on my bike, great for finding BP servos. :D

[BMKal]

Id be careful, the current radar and laser speed detection sets have inbuilt feature which 'radar detection detector alerts' (even im confused!)

It comes up with at least an RFI indicator and that gives enough reasonable cause to stop you and turn your car inside out looking for it.. heafty fine and confiscation if detected.

We used to get a lot of them... Just a friendly warning, dont get caught!!!:eek:

Thanks Digger. I'd been told that also by someone I know in the Police over here. But radar detectors are still legal over here, so no problem. :D

[BMKal]

Yes, it would be a lifted Cruiser being driven like that. That type of Outback Hero will be up here for tourist season at any moment. Always amusing.

Was supposed to be heading up north myself on Monday morning - well at least as far as Nullagine. Booked to fly into Newman and then drive a hire vehicle out to site.

Have just cancelled the flights - site is in lockdown at the moment with the cyclone heading straight at them, and the Fortescue River crossing just south of there won't be getting crossed by 4WD's or anything else for at least a few days.

I've got a crusher, two screens (all tracked gear) and a mobile conveyor on their way up by road at the moment - have just told them to head straight for Port Hedland as the top road in to site via Marble Bar is likely to be open before the road up from Newman.

Looks like you're far enough east and this one won't affect you too much. :D

[ATH]

About 20 years ago someone in WA (I believe he was a mathmetician) was unfortunate enough to get caught by the "spy in the sky" the cops were using.
They timed motorists by a hand held stop watch and this bloke was having none of that. He challenged it in court and showed the huge difference it could make should the stop watch operator be out by a fraction of a second or so.
The case against him was thrown out of court and they stopped using that method.
Todays methods may be more accurate but why don't the revenue raisers put some effort into all those other things motorists do on the roads which as far as I'm concerned are far more dangerous than a few kays over the limit, especially when overtaking?
I know a revenue raiser who was recently up before his boss for pulling his guns on a minor speeder...for crying out loud! It's just a bloody speeding offence, he hadn't killed anyone or threatened to!

Instead of these turkeys coming straight out of training into a traffic vehicle they should be made to do a couple of years on the beat, they might not then have such an arrogant attitude towards the general public.
As a cop I know from internal affairs says, "We call traffic jelly beans....pretty outside not much inside".
AlanH.

[Davo]

Looks like you're far enough east and this one won't affect you too much. Yes, cyclones don't usually head in this way, except for Laurence in '09, who hit the coast to the north and then came looking for us before getting thirsty and heading back to sea.