Alternate To Loosing Your License

[Odium]

If I'm doing a static burnout, the accelerometer shouldn't recognise any g forces apart from some slight vibration...

If I'm rolling along at 60 on a rough road, it'll also not detect any g forces apart from slight vibrations...

Unless I'm missing something, Accelerometers can't detect speed, so how would it know if its doing a burnout?

[Teiresias]

If I'm doing a static burnout, the accelerometer shouldn't recognise any g forces apart from some slight vibration...

If I'm rolling along at 60 on a rough road, it'll also not detect any g forces apart from slight vibrations...

Unless I'm missing something, Accelerometers can't detect speed, so how would it know if its doing a burnout?

Sorry, thought we were talking about going off road. Yes, detecting a burnout is a current issue I'm having. To an extent, accelerometers can detect speed. Acceleration (Gs or m/s^2) over time (seconds) will give you speed (m/s off the top of my head). When I do testing I'll have to see what the reading differences are like between say a burnout, and simply revving the motor. But since the accelerometer can detect acceleration and deceleration you can see if the car is static.

So, knowing that, we can possibly recognize if someone is doing a burnout. We take into consideration whether the car is static (making sure that acceleration and deceleration are equivalent - hence the car is stationary.) and if the car is static and there's a large amount of vibrations, it is possible that you're doing a burnout. Again, need to compare revving the engine to a burnout and see how clear the difference is between them.

[XGTRX]

Only way to do this is to tap into the Speedo or wheel speed sensors. Everything else would be too inaccurate and unreliable.

[Odium]

yeah Accelerometers are accurate over very short periods of time, but not for car movement, even with a good quality high resolution 3-axis one. Too many variables... bumps, hills, etc...Even the most amazingly complex math in the world can't overcome that without additional assistance from a quality GPS signal or an ECU speed input...

[Teiresias]

ECU is just not feasible, end of story. I can't do anything about that, I'd love to use it, trust me, but I can't. GPS will be there.

Do you perhaps have ideas for other sensors?

Again, it would be awesome to tap into the ECU, but there's no way I can create comms systems for every bloody model out there.

[Cowboy1600]

Mandatory penalties are bullshit.

Murderers still get their day in court and judges are able to apply discretion, yet a victimless crime gets a set punishment regardless of degree.

People busted speeding should receive a penalty appropriate to the "crime"".

Edited August 24, 2013 by Cowboy1600

[Teiresias]

Mandatory penalties are bullshit.

Murderers still get their day in court and judges are able to apply discretion, yet a victimless crime gets a set punishment regardless of degree.

People busted speeding should receive a penalty appropriate to the "crime"".

If I could delete your post I would. This isn't a discussion concerning whether we believe in the types of punishments currently in place, so I'd ask you to refrain from trying to create such an argument.