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CEF11E

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W0rp3D Grand Master

W0rp3D

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I drive for 10 hrs a day and always use the tom tom on my phone to see if the speedo is out, always has been reliable for me, just gotta keep it at a certain speed for a couple of k's and make sure you have good sattelite reception.

R31Nismoid Grand Master

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That's where there are proper speedo calibration services out there - They don't use a GPS :)

If it wont hold in court (im not aware of a precedent here in Vic), then i don't class it as reliable.

W0rp3D Grand Master

W0rp3D

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If it wont hold in court (im not aware of a precedent here in Vic), then i don't class it as reliable.

There was one on the news (pretty sure it was in vic) he went to court with the data from the gps and got off a speeding fine, cant find the story atm.

iamhe77 Grand Master

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Quick questions guys (sorry to briefly hijack).

Can you legally be done for speeding if the speed camera is on the opposite side of the road?

I have a ticket and I remember where, when and the blue Falcon who took the pic.

I was headed east (single lane each way) and the camera car was facing west on the right side of the road. I always thought that they had to be on the same side of the road, facing the direction of the nearest lane to take a valid picture (or the back of the speeding vehicle).

I have requested a picture, but was curious if anyone knows about this method.

As it stands, I don't think I was speeding since the camera was ~40m from a roundabout which I had just turned onto and was going away with the wife for the long weekend (so plenty of traffic around).

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RBPOWA-(TJ) Grand Master

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my mum fought a speeding ticket without even going to court, just chuck on the crazy lady act in the cop station.

he was parked on the nature strip, illegal for everyone else in certain councils.

bam! ticket was torn up by some high rank cop there that day

W0rp3D Grand Master

W0rp3D

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my mum fought a speeding ticket without even going to court, just chuck on the crazy lady act in the cop station.

he was parked on the nature strip, illegal for everyone else in certain councils.

bam! ticket was torn up by some high rank cop there that day

That must have been a while ago, they changed the law many years ago so its not illegal for camera cars to park pretty much any where they like.

Birds Grand Master

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Quick questions guys (sorry to briefly hijack).

Can you legally be done for speeding if the speed camera is on the opposite side of the road?

I have a ticket and I remember where, when and the blue Falcon who took the pic.

I was headed east (single lane each way) and the camera car was facing west on the right side of the road. I always thought that they had to be on the same side of the road, facing the direction of the nearest lane to take a valid picture (or the back of the speeding vehicle).

I have requested a picture, but was curious if anyone knows about this method.

As it stands, I don't think I was speeding since the camera was ~40m from a roundabout which I had just turned onto and was going away with the wife for the long weekend (so plenty of traffic around).

Whether you were speeding or not is a different matter, but cameras can certainly snap you from the other side of the road. The way these cameras work is by calculating negative speed...so instead of detecting you at 63 in a 50 zone they detect you at -63 in a -50 zone. About the only time they don't work like this is when the road has more than 4 lanes (combined directions) or there is a decent median strip dividing both sides of the road.

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