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straight back fro NY or a few days in LA?

the jetlag with NYC-> MEL is a real kicker!

Last week was Vegas > LA > MEL

slept like 12 hours on way back cos I was so wrecked so not too tired anymore. (Although slept through the f1 :()

got done by Mansfield HWP on sunday. business as usual for the senior constable. even had a stamp with his details so didnt have fill in information about the issuing officer. looked like the whole force was out on cars and bikes in surrounding metro areas though... what happens when the number of speeding fines being dished out drops and suddenly theyre not making back the OT theyre paying the force? will they just cut it or make more of an effort to raise money?

also, i tried googling but couldnt find it: the way they work out detected speed and alleged speed. is it % based or just a flat number? Because I saw they changed the rules so that speedos should never read less than the actual speed, but thought that 2km/h is hardly significant when on a 100km/h road.

Detected speed is what showed on the radar, i.e. the speed you were actually doing assuming accuracy of equipment. Alleged is detected speed minus 2km/h if a cop and 3km/h if a camera, giving benefit of doubt which covers equipment inaccuracy and the odd chance your speedo is reading low...this is the speed that you get charged based on.

Speedos from factory are usually generous because the opposite creates law suits.

Therefore if alleged speed is a couple km over the limit, fair to say your speedo was probably displaying ~7-8km/h over the limit, unless you have recalibrated your speedo or changed your tyre circumference to a bigger size, which will make you as fast as or faster than what the speedo is actually displaying.

From what I hear most cops don't bother with 5km/h detected over / flamin mongrel fines. You would have to be picked on for them to get you for a couple km/h over. Cameras are a different story of course...

Detected speed is what showed on the radar, i.e. the speed you were actually doing assuming accuracy of equipment. Alleged is detected speed minus 2km/h if a cop and 3km/h if a camera, giving benefit of doubt which covers equipment inaccuracy and the odd chance your speedo is reading low...this is the speed that you get charged based on.

Speedos from factory are usually generous because the opposite creates law suits.

Therefore if alleged speed is a couple km over the limit, fair to say your speedo was probably displaying ~7-8km/h over the limit, unless you have recalibrated your speedo or changed your tyre circumference to a bigger size, which will make you as fast as or faster than what the speedo is actually displaying.

From what I hear most cops don't bother with 5km/h detected over / flamin mongrel fines. You would have to be picked on for them to get you for a couple km/h over. Cameras are a different story of course...

There's been a push from the top that they start fining for a couple ks over

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/traffic-police-told-to-target-lowlevel-speeding-offenders/story-fni0fee2-1226807937959

I don't understand that bullshit excuse...if the margin for error is that tiny before you enter the "danger zone" (i.e. exactly 2km/h over the speed limit), to warrant low speed fines...then why not reduce speed limits another 5km/h? As they are clearly too high with such a small margin of error.

VicPol seems to think humans are robots, what with our impeccable ability to maintain exact speed whilst looking at the road and their superhuman ability to detect decibel readings with their ears and distort reality with their minds ala Matrix style.

Vicpol's behaving erratically lately.

Went past a hwp 10k over limit, they didn't do squat.

Other day on monash went past bike cop at 20k over, he didn't do squat as well.

Are officers defying Commissioner Hill's orders or it's 'too much paperwork' for them?

I'll see what comes in the letterbox later on...

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