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stupid idea, i remember back in germany, we had the wet-film speed cameras ages back. nobody ever had trouble with them because you could just use a tire iron to bust a hole through the front and screw up the film. now i guess they will do the same, as they said they will need to "extract" the images from the speed camera which means its not a "live and online" fixed camera. from waht i can tell, there will be a major waste in buying these cameras and then having to repair them from people smashing them up so the cops dont get the pictures. :banana:

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Back to school for you guys I'll try and explain it to you guys It's based on momentum and impulse energy. Forgive me if it all starts getting too complicated. Momentum is mass times velocity. So

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oweban Grand Master

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there was something in one of those articles about people actually being in the cars while it's happening. so someone is being paid a wage to sit in a territory all day???

also there was a driveby shooting in the US of these kinds of things, killed one of the operators... hmm.

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there was something in one of those articles about people actually being in the cars while it's happening. so someone is being paid a wage to sit in a territory all day???

Yes. The ones down here are Mercedes vans (or something like that) and there are indeed operators in them. They stay for a while in one spot and then he jumps in the front and drives off to a new location.

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Honestly, everyone hear is having a huge cry about nothing.

Also, the story about the guy getting done with a missus and the caught case following, that was actually from a fixed speed camera which took photos of the front number plates and they forced the RTA to blur out peoples faces in the photos now.

The old mobile speed cameras were used for YEARS, and they only stopped using them around 2-3 years ago (I know, because a work mate of mine lost his licence from the same mobile camera being in the same spot all the time and he was too stupid to realise "Oh, big white car on the footpath where there are no houses or business I'll keep speeding")

So for those of you who have had your licences for 10+ years, did you ever get caught by mobile speed cameras for the first 7 of them? If No, then you have nothing to worry about now.

Oh, and I never used to be an angel on the road, until I got down to 1 point remaining, and by god, now I am because my licence means so much to me!

i was speaking to my tafe teacher about this and he has the original article at home . regarding the first mobile speed cameras in nsw.

....... it says mobile speed camera.dont jump down my throat buddy. usually anything that comes from you keyboard i'd totally agree with you. but not this time

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Are you also one of the people that drive around with an illegal radar detector? Because if you are, then you're just admitting to being an intentional speeder that just doesn't want to get caught.

Clearly not. Altho i love the idea of a radar its just not worth the risks.. hence the idea of LEGAL GPS that alreadi detect redlight cams. :).

Your kidding me if you've never crept abit above the limit. Spare me goody goody gumdrums.

MBS206 Grand Master

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Clearly not. Altho i love the idea of a radar its just not worth the risks.. hence the idea of LEGAL GPS that alreadi detect redlight cams. :/.

Your kidding me if you've never crept abit above the limit. Spare me goody goody gumdrums.

Never claimed I hadn't, in fact, check back, I admit I've been done twice (Once in double D's which cost me big time), but I stick to the limit as much as possible, there is leeway in these things to begin with, and if you haven't been done by a Cop hiding behind a bush with a radar, you've got even less chance of being booked by a huge white van parked in the middle of the footpath in clear view.

Seriously, these things stand out like dogs balls, you have to be retarded to get caught by one! The only other thing they could help you to avoid being done is put a huge flashing light on them screaming "RADAR HERE!!!"

wht510 Experienced

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Seriously, these things stand out like dogs balls, you have to be retarded to get caught by one! The only other thing they could help you to avoid being done is put a huge flashing light on them screaming "RADAR HERE!!!"

Except for the ones that aren't in big white station wagons, and are in shit boxes, or perhaps the garbage bin, or perhaps you might even be so busy looking at your speedo to make sure you aren't speeding that you don't see the damn thing.

I pick 'em. I'm far from retarded, except for when it's at night and i'm too busy looking for retards doing 60 in an 80 zone. Then I get done for 84.

Revenue raising.... that's all it is.

Hiroshima Screamer Grand Master

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more revenue for the government , you know i dont know why they bother they might as well give us their account details and be done with it!

what next cameras in bins like in Perth few years back , makes you think where else are they capable of hiding them...

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did anybody watch ACA or whatever its called just then... the presenter asked the guy who is behind the mobile cameras if he would get a fine for doing 64 in a 60 zone... and the dude did not give a straight answer... which basically means yes!

so there leeway with these cameras is going to be shit all... 1 or 2ks I'd say

hence everyone will be looking at their speedos everywhere they go and we are all going to die in horrible crashes

MBS206 Grand Master

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did anybody watch ACA or whatever its called just then... the presenter asked the guy who is behind the mobile cameras if he would get a fine for doing 64 in a 60 zone... and the dude did not give a straight answer... which basically means yes!

so there leeway with these cameras is going to be shit all... 1 or 2ks I'd say

hence everyone will be looking at their speedos everywhere they go and we are all going to die in horrible crashes

The reason he can't give an exact answer, is he doesn't know.

The RTA want to reduce it to only a 4KM/H leeway.

Senior HWP are against. They're battling it out now.

At the moment they actually have a policy on what the minimum leeway is. The RTA were forced to increase it a few years back.

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They've stated that they'll all be in Ford Territories... but what are the odds that they sneak into other cars too? Bah.

All in all though: For once I'm with HWY patrol on this; 4km/h is too small a leeway; as they've said, some needles are 3km/h wide, and think about the speedos that are a few km/h out... I think mine's fixed now, but it might be that little bit out...

Either way. Interesting to see what'll happen.

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over the years of working with backpacking mechanics my old mate from the uk told me about captain gatso, http://www.speedcam.co.uk/welcome.htm

http://captaingatso.blogspot.com/

these people are bloody legends and the rta are not ruling out the possibility of the camera's being installed in locations where the nsw driver cannot see. which will over see the law entrapment

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over the years of working with backpacking mechanics my old mate from the uk told me about captain gatso, http://www.speedcam.co.uk/welcome.htm

http://captaingatso.blogspot.com/

these people are bloody legends and the rta are not ruling out the possibility of the camera's being installed in locations where the nsw driver cannot see. which will over see the law entrapment

If the camera is taken out of the eye of the driver, the driver is out of the eye of the camera... :thumbsup:

These cameras are right on the side, and on some on the front of/rear of the vehicles, MEANING the car has to sit out in a spot where it can get line of site on the offending vehicle.

Hence, if it has line of site on you, you have line of site on it.

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If the camera is taken out of the eye of the driver, the driver is out of the eye of the camera... ;)

These cameras are right on the side, and on some on the front of/rear of the vehicles, MEANING the car has to sit out in a spot where it can get line of site on the offending vehicle.

Hence, if it has line of site on you, you have line of site on it.

Kind of... there's a spot northbound going past Dapto on the F6 where the highway pat can sit and tuck back and get you at an angle from the rear, and you can't really see them.... same applies for dropping to the 80 zone at Waterfall northbound, they sit back up the other road, by the time you know they're there, bam.

All open for interpretation on "hidden" :thumbsup:

MBS206 Grand Master

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Kind of... there's a spot northbound going past Dapto on the F6 where the highway pat can sit and tuck back and get you at an angle from the rear, and you can't really see them.... same applies for dropping to the 80 zone at Waterfall northbound, they sit back up the other road, by the time you know they're there, bam.

All open for interpretation on "hidden" :thumbsup:

And all that these would be doing anyway is taking over the job of that police officer.

Have you been pinged by a copper in the last few years?

No?

Been done by a mobile speed camera 3 to 10 years ago?

No?

Nothing to worry about.

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And all that these would be doing anyway is taking over the job of that police officer.

Have you been pinged by a copper in the last few years?

No?

Been done by a mobile speed camera 3 to 10 years ago?

No?

Nothing to worry about.

^_^ all goods. i admit nossink!

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