Thread: Speed Camera Trailers

Road deaths are not in the top twenty causes of death in Australia but do we see governments of any political leaning, manically pursuing reductions in any of the other causes?

Originally Posted by Homestar

I can just see the Police being willing to help the Council on this - they won't even investigate a car theft now more than give you a report so your insurance company will pay. Even with all the new CCTV cameras all over town here, one of my co workers had his car stolen from right near one of the cameras and the Police didn't/wouldn't investigate this, as they are too understaffed.

Just scare tactics - Police have much better things to do with their time.

Oh, and don't you love the BS reasons they claim it is illegal.

Around here (fairfield sydney) the council has over 40 cameras but there are more restrictions on what the police can use them for than what they can. They are not allowed to keep video for more than a week so if your slow requesting something then bad luck most is never looked at and police can not use them to build a int file on any body the best one is you can clearly see dealer working the street but if the drugs are not siezed and tested the it is not a deal and the video is destroyed after 7 days

Originally Posted by Fatso

The AU design rules relating to vehicle speedometers , and the Tolerance to be applied for any activation built into the state speed cameras should be enough to protect a competent driver who sometimes strays 3% over a conservative limit i would have thought . There is also the vehicle over-speed alarm and or GPS to assist drivers in this regard .

But of course a copper out and about on our roads is more effective than anything else for road rule enforcement , but alas that is another story .

Victoria is 3km/h over, irrespective of speed limit. My cars are from a time when 10% was an acceptable accuracy on vehicle speedometers. I could be traveling at 121km/h, with my speedo indicating 110km/h according to the design rules. I use the satnav as a check nowdays.

SA, I believe, is 1km/h over, irrespective of speed limit.

Extract from Third Edition ADR 18/00

18.5.1.1.2. indicate the actual vehicle speed, for all speeds above 40 km/h, to an
accuracy of ? 10 percent

So, at 25km/h the speedo could be wildly inaccurate. No wonder the SA coppers are angry sods.


Oh!

18.5.2.1.1. indicate distance travelled in one kilometre units (or less) from 1 to
999,999 kilometres; and
18.5.2.1.2. indicate the actual distance travelled by the vehicle to an accuracy of ?4
per cent.

My odometers only read from 1 to 99,999 kilometres (or miles).
Except for the Camry, Commodore and Perentie.

In Western QLD speed policing is a very funny carry on.
Traffic Police Patrol during the Dry Season & even they are a bit arbitrary.

I set my speed off the GPS, I may be sitting 8kph over the speed limit & have been overtaken by Police cars, get a polite wave & they carry on regardless.

On other occasions I have been doing the same sort of speed seen people pulled over but I have not been?
Sometimes the Croydon Police are out with a Radar Gun where it goes from 110 to 80 but I have never seen anyone pulled up.
I've had traffic go past me & do nothing? Yet they have been further up the road with someone pulled?

Even in Doomadgee, the local Police don't do much regarding traffic but when the Traffic Police come up 2-3 times a year they pull over virtually everybody?
Funny, when Traffic are in town there is hardly a car on the road & suddenly we have to drive around & pick up our staff who usually drive to work.

The law is the law but it is a bit like bring up kids - be consistent!

Jonesfam