Thread: WA DRIVERS BEWARE, REAR FACING MULTANOVAS

Hi there,

Saw a rear facing camera being set-up by the police where the Mitchell split into the James str off-ramp and the Kwinana at around 12 noon. Fortunatly the fender cannot speed on the freeway.

Cheers,

Jurgens

Originally Posted by Jamo

Whinge, whinge , whinge....Blah, blah, blah...

If you don't want the camera to get you... DON'T SPEED! (Personally I don't see how it affects Defender drivers anyway!)

And..On one hand some of you are saying you think we are becoming a police/nanny state and yet a reminder notice/invoice in the mail one month before the rego is due isn't good enough. You still want the govt to hold your little hands and give you a nice bright sticker, maybe with a cute little animal on it, to remind you AGAIN when your rego is due!

Awwwww.

Maybe when you get the Porche Cayenne you might change your mind..these are cop magnets I think Qld will go same way with rego stickers cause the last ones all peeled of in our deadly (climate change) sun!
We already have some fixed speed cameras which are useless cause all new GPS know where they are. Next comes speed cameras in red light cameras..useless again cause at least last years GPS have all red light cameras logged.
The only idiots these cameras are going to catch are drivers who can't afford a GPS. The way that majority of Qld mobile traps are sited at bottom of hills ,generally behind other vehicles or trees with warning sign AFTER the vehicle is purely revenue raising. The ones I regularly go thru are not black spots, but 80k multilane separated sections with low accident history. Thank God for the drivers in the opposite lanes who flash there lights and deprive these Govt revenue raisers.

Originally Posted by richard4u2

i got done about a year ago down at busselton, the camera faces one way but can clock a car traveling towards the camera as well as away , since then been looking at the guide lines for camera operators , they must be more then 100 meters from a speed change , the one that got me was 120 meters from a 90 to 70 speed change on caves road and there is not allowed a metal object in the photo, in mine was a house for sale sign but it was a plastic one, bummer , mine was 79 in a 70 zone

I had one at the 80 zone from Mitchell to the Kwinana Freeway interchange where you go under Charles st, just on the bend.
Didn't have to pay it as it wasnt on a straight section of road, and another with a handheld coming down a hill a few months later. I know I was doing the limit, but the linear difference between where he had it focussed on me at the top to the drop in angle he had where had it at the bottom where I pulled up, BIG difference. He was 20m back from the bottom on level ground!

I said to him, "so how fast did it register?' he says "75 but i will give you 72..."
"Really??" I said ..." did you have to drop the angle of the gun as I was coming down??" (this is a 20m drop over about 150m or so...).
Looked at him, said "write me up and I'll see you in court".
He looked at me, put his pen away, closed his book and got the "I'll let you off this time" routine....

ALL readings from a handheld MUST be on level ground!


As for keeping tabs on your rego renewal, wouldn't you just leave your last sticker on there as an annual reminder???? DERRRRRRR

Cheers

Andrew

radar detectors are legal you know

They are, but by the time they go off, your already in the beam. Handhelds now are laser pointed, and Multanovas have crossbeams. Not much you can do but hope!!

Cheers

Andrew

i think they work ok with the multinova's but your stuffed with the handheld lasers. Only chance you have there is that the cop glances the beam off/through the car in front and hits you for a split second while he targets the car in front.

Still if they save you from one or two tickets they paid for themselves.
Not that I advocate speeding, I rarely go more than 10 over and thats just a $50 fine.

Have a look at this page. Police Radar Laser & Speed cameras in Western Australia, detectors, jammers, fines

Had an email come to me some time ago and you used to be able to get it onscren but think now they make you pay for a lot of the info.
But non the less, the info they do provide is quite good.

Cheers

Andrew

right on mate - but don't forget the first thing an insurance company wants after an accident is your gps so they can see where you've been driving, for how long etc etc. they can go against you bigtime!!