Linked Speed Camera warning voiced

one year... then i'm out of here... hold on jason!!

j

Posted: 16/04/2008 at 12:04

It just gets worse

and to make it even more annoying, the wreckless, uninsured and unregistered car drivers will continue to get away with it, because they will never be able to trace them

Posted: 16/04/2008 at 12:09

dont work if you stop for a fag break now and again though?!... seems pointless unless there's thousands of the things everywhere.

I'm with you forest, this country's immigration 'problem' will soon turn to an emigration problem if this crap continues...

in the words of Tupac.... shit gets worse..

Posted: 16/04/2008 at 12:31

Ummmm, a similar concept has been in use in France for years using toll tickets.

Just because a system is being tested doesn't mean it'll ever be adopted - believe it or not, public opinion/pressure still does amount to something.
It'll also cost millions and millions to implement and get right - we can't get a few luggage bags from T5 to their owners so what do you reckon the chances of this happening for real actually are?

Stop being so easily led by drama queen journalism folks.

Posted: 16/04/2008 at 12:45

"and then work out if they have broken the speed limit at any point during the trip"

So no overtaking either then! 

Posted: 16/04/2008 at 12:51

Do you really think any other counrty will be better?  In Australia for example they often put two vans out with a few hundred yards between then.  You see the first van then open it up and get nicked by the second one.  They were doing that when i lived there ten years ago!

Posted: 16/04/2008 at 13:08

I agree Nige, it probably wont happen ..not for a little while yet .. until the technology gets better and public opinion changes.. but really its symptomatic of the nanny state bollocks that we have to live with day in day out...

 Dont know whether it'd better in any other country... probably most in most of 'em it would..

Posted: 16/04/2008 at 13:16

For the sake of my sanity ( I know grammar and spelling etc is out of fashion on this forum..BUT)

It's RECKLESS no ferkin W

Everytime I ride without an accident I am riding wreckless..ie without wrecking anything....

Its also riding without due care and attention...if I gave something undue care I would be being more careful than necessary.

and breathe

Posted: 16/04/2008 at 15:37

gedge wrote (see)

For the sake of my sanity ( I know grammar and spelling etc is out of fashion on this forum..BUT)

It's RECKLESS no ferkin W

Everytime I ride without an accident I am riding wreckless..ie without wrecking anything....

Its also riding without due care and attention...if I gave something undue care I would be being more careful than necessary.

and breathe

Easy now Gedge, tis a yoof thing.  In 20 odd years the same guys will be fulminating just like you.

(but it is irritating)

Posted: 16/04/2008 at 15:58

'fulminating'......word of the day

congratulations Cousin Jack

Posted: 16/04/2008 at 16:11

It's simple. Just clone someones plate and then you are free to ignore all the rules of the road, including tax and insurance with no fear of proscecution as there will be even less coppers on the road.

It will be far too hard (and expensive) to try to catch you and it will be much easier to simply fine the generally law abiding drivers who pay their taxes etc. and excess insurance to cover those that don't bother and simply change their 03 plate into a 53 plate.

 FFS!!!!!

Posted: 16/04/2008 at 17:36

What the f*cks going on. If we were France we would be blocking all major roads and smoking fags by now! I agree with bmwonder. The more rules there are the more we will end up getting f*cked for breaking em! God bless the nanny state.

Posted: 17/04/2008 at 10:32

Even more reason to go Racing.

there trying to make it as unenjoyable to ride a bike as they can.. Wankers all of em!!

Posted: 17/04/2008 at 10:57

Mr Marv wrote (see)

Even more reason to go Racing.

there trying to make it as unenjoyable to ride a bike as they can.. Wankers all of em!!

Last time I looked bikes don't have forward facing numberplates...

Posted: 17/04/2008 at 11:02

...and how long do you think it will take them to sort that one out. Thay have already trialed rear looking ones and putting transponders on cars/bikes to get rid of plates altogether.

Posted: 17/04/2008 at 11:10

So according to the article:

"The linked system works out the average speed over large distances, then looks at possible routes to and from start and finish points and calculates if the vehicle has sped at any point."

The system decides if you have been speeding at any point based on possible routes!!!!!!  

Posted: 17/04/2008 at 12:37

...and now think about how workable that actually is

Posted: 17/04/2008 at 12:39

Not very.

Over short distances maybe.

Of course you could simplify it, use sensors only located in areas where the speed limit is constant between the two, like most urban areas. Or motorways and many trunk roads.

For anything more you need an accurate database or mapping of speed limits, does such exist? And LOTS of processing power, given the volumes of data and the almost infinite permutations.

However, an effective system only needs to know the minimum time for legal travel on the shortest route between the two sensors.

Posted: 17/04/2008 at 13:14

traffic lights might really fuck it up! It's a bollocks system but will raise squillions in revenue

Posted: 17/04/2008 at 14:18

" and in pilot schemes in Scotland and Nottingham."

Ive not seen anything in nottingham. Apart from the fuzz pulling over EVERY bike they see..

Posted: 17/04/2008 at 15:35

im going to bubble wrap my number plate, then claim, "i'm just trying to protect it, i bubble wrap the whole bike, but uncover it when going out"

Posted: 17/04/2008 at 22:23

This is bollox - can you imagine the evidence produced:

We did some maths on a computer and reckon he's been speeding, there's no photos or calibrated evidence, just a hunch really

Posted: 17/04/2008 at 22:25

i like the transponder idea - then it'll be like old days -> switch it on when you see a dayglo van up ahead, switch it off as soon as you're past the cops and bang... you're invisible

and no complaints about GIYANTLY-HYOOGINORMOUS-OMG-NUMBERPLATES-WTF

so... transponders (with kill switches) are the way forward!

j

Posted: 18/04/2008 at 23:59

Just go the long route and nail it all the way. Chances are you'll still be over the shortest distance minimum travel time.

Posted: 19/04/2008 at 14:39

I have to stop and fill my tank up for every two hours of riding I do, what will that do to my average speed over a set distance?

Posted: 12/05/2010 at 20:20

Glad I live in Austria... last time I was home I got stopped by a Policeman and he inquired if I knew any English I stood and looked at him and said yes... thought my accent might have given me away but no... Anyhew he then asked did I know how fast I was going and I was a bit about 10 over the limit in a clear area but he complained about the speed I left the traffic lights (2 kids driving a Mercedes drop top and a BMW drop top (each car around 50000 quid or so, had been hooning it around and I wanted to get away from them) as they where only about 20 not sure about who's insurance etc they where on... and it was Bradford... he then told me I was doing 50mph in a 30mph zone when the traffic sign right behind he stated 40mph!!! Now if a local traffic cop cannot tell you the correct speed limit in an area what chances are there that a computer system can as they say garbage in garbage out... by the way he let me go...

Posted: 15/09/2011 at 20:26