Unmarked police bikes in Perth

[Big Dog]

You voyeur lol...

I thought I'd seen a fair few dodgy things from the truck till I saw the infamous Pajero woman at about 2 am one morning. The most disturbing thing was a patrol car with its lights off pulled away from her before she entered the motorway at Ramarama....

I was going to *555 her as DUI, all over the lanes and neatly hit the barrier, must have just been when she was undressing while driving and tooling up....

Anyway I pulled alongside and Jesus Christ what a show she put on, gave up on the phone, no way I cold subject a poor innocent rookie Auckland cop to seeing that. It was bad enough that I had to see it.... Warned a truck ahead on the CB, oh yeah bro sweet as, already seen that show before lol

Just an active observer.



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[Berries]

The last woman answers that.

I never got that far. The 'I am the Lord and you will pull over' attitude of the cop in question turned me off quite quickly. I guess filming them, following them and pulling them over with the disco lights when safe to do so would not have made such good TV/PR.

[Big Dog]

I never got that far. The 'I am the Lord and you will pull over' attitude of the cop in question turned me off quite quickly. I guess filming them, following them and pulling them over with the disco lights when safe to do so would not have made such good TV/PR.

Yeah bit this is a publicity stunt. It is about the shock and awe of seeing what they did not observe etc. Wouldn't have the same long term effect.


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[R650R]

I was being a smart arse. If I was serious I would ask how many crashes are prevented by giving people tickets for using their mobile phone while the car is stationary? I get the seat belts, you never know when someone else is going to fuck up and hit you, but using a phone while stationary and failing to stop at a stop sign when you can see perfectly well that there are no vehicles approaching are two of things that make me think the easy option is being taken. Tickets, contacts, revenue yes. Reducing crashes? Mmm, not so sure. If the traffic wasn't stationary I might think differently.

Getting back to riding over the median, being an unmarked bike nobody will think it was a policeman so it will be just more fodder for the anti brigade. Then again, if you weren't meant to ride over them they shouldn't build them with mountable kerb should they?

Its just like speeding where they ticket people speeding on nice straight stretches of roads... those people are the rule breakers and likely speeding though corners and bad bits of roads as well.
Same for those using phone while stopped in traffic, its a breach of the law so likely they do it on the move too.
Even though some cops like to do u turns in dangerous places.... common sense dictates that to be effective they need to interact with a wide number of road users/offenders, this means doing the job where it is easy and safe...

[Big Dog]

I did note the u turn was done in a spot specifically for u turns. At least that's what it looks like.


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[AllanB]

Hmmm interesting KB post and most interesting are the overwhelming positive responses.

So lets take it a step further - given phone use is illegal as is speeding how about mufti motorcycles trolling the Corro loop or Akaroa highway in the weekend?

Nah - that's just not sporting the buggers would spend all day writing tickets!

[rastuscat]

Hmmm interesting KB post and most interesting are the overwhelming positive responses.

So lets take it a step further - given phone use is illegal as is speeding how about mufti motorcycles trolling the Corro loop or Akaroa highway in the weekend?

Nah - that's just not sporting the buggers would spend all day writing tickets!

How do you know we're not doing it already?

[MD]

My dream job! Riding a bike and dishing the dirt to idiots using phones while driving - my pet road rage trigger No. 0026.

I'm all in favour of what these Perth cops are doing. Even better that they admit their research shows inattention is the major cause of serious accidents. Wow, who would have thought that. Our Govt have their heads so far up their arses believing their own myths that speed is the source of all evils.

Just hope he didn't lane split their for a second.

[R650R]

Even better that they admit their research shows inattention is the major cause of serious accidents. Wow, who would have thought that...

I did and I've said it a few times.... You know what would be a good way to ping people for failing to pay attention....???
How about we put a gauge with a rotating dial on the dashboard and you have to drive your car so the needle doesn't go past a preselected point. No this would be hard to do so we could have a bit of leeway and also make the attention factor a bigger element by making the car driver adjust the dial before a policeman or camera van presses a special button instead.... We could have sign posts so people would have to drive the dial at different settings.
We could have coloured lights at intersections too and if people failed to notice the proper colour and do the right thing they could get a ticket too.
And to test that they are paying attention to maintaining their car we could put a sticker with a date on the windscreen that would need to be changed every 12 months....

[Grubber]

I did and I've said it a few times.... You know what would be a good way to ping people for failing to pay attention....???
How about we put a gauge with a rotating dial on the dashboard and you have to drive your car so the needle doesn't go past a preselected point. No this would be hard to do so we could have a bit of leeway and also make the attention factor a bigger element by making the car driver adjust the dial before a policeman or camera van presses a special button instead.... We could have sign posts so people would have to drive the dial at different settings.
We could have coloured lights at intersections too and if people failed to notice the proper colour and do the right thing they could get a ticket too.
And to test that they are paying attention to maintaining their car we could put a sticker with a date on the windscreen that would need to be changed every 12 months....

Hmmmm....worth a crack I reckon. How do we get this phenomenon under way?

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[oneofsix]

I did and I've said it a few times.... You know what would be a good way to ping people for failing to pay attention....???
How about we put a gauge with a rotating dial on the dashboard and you have to drive your car so the needle doesn't go past a preselected point. No this would be hard to do so we could have a bit of leeway and also make the attention factor a bigger element by making the car driver adjust the dial before a policeman or camera van presses a special button instead.... We could have sign posts so people would have to drive the dial at different settings.
We could have coloured lights at intersections too and if people failed to notice the proper colour and do the right thing they could get a ticket too.
And to test that they are paying attention to maintaining their car we could put a sticker with a date on the windscreen that would need to be changed every 12 months....

doesn't get them paying attention to driving it just gets them looking at the dial. Now if you have no speed policing and the driver has to pay attention to the conditions and what others are doing or they could die, that would get them paying attention to their driving. Just to make sure it works remove the steering wheel airbag but leave the explosive in place with a hard metal cover.

[R650R]

doesn't get them paying attention to driving it just gets them looking at the dial. Now if you have no speed policing and the driver has to pay attention to the conditions and what others are doing or they could die, that would get them paying attention to their driving. Just to make sure it works remove the steering wheel airbag but leave the explosive in place with a hard metal cover.

I've always thought speed enforcement does contribute a little to people looking ahead to see what is about or lurking at roadside.
You'll never get people paying full attention all of the time, sadly its just a natural short coming of human nature. There prob are a select few who can and then some who don't drive/ride much but think they are 'expert drivers' who are prob tuned in well too...
The technology exists to moniter eye movement and other factors and possible administer a small taser style shock to the driver, but by the time we get that mainstreamed we'll be headed to driverless vehicles anyway....

[wharekura]

I use to ride daily to commute to work and some of my trip involves open road areas with blind bends. Often I could see drivers with their eyes gazed down. I sold the bike because of ppl that just had to read or send a txt message that couldnt wait when they got home.

I support the Perth idea.

[haydes55]

I've always thought speed enforcement does contribute a little to people looking ahead to see what is about or lurking at roadside.


You'll never get people paying full attention all of the time, sadly its just a natural short coming of human nature. There prob are a select few who can and then some who don't drive/ride much but think they are 'expert drivers' who are prob tuned in well too...


The technology exists to moniter eye movement and other factors and possible administer a small taser style shock to the driver, but by the time we get that mainstreamed we'll be headed to driverless vehicles anyway....

I think it was BMW or Mercedes that developed a function for their new cars that can detect fatigue and an idiot light in the shape of a cup of coffee shows on the dash.

Edit; it's more widespread than I thought http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver_...ness_detection

[Big Dog]

I heard about a driver attention detection that when a driver is fading attention wise not just drowsy switches dash lights from the usual orange lighting that is to calm the driver against road rage to whitish blue lighting that heightens your level of alertness.
Not sure how effective because the clip I saw was a development concept.

Based on the idea that people recently exposed to blue light don't sleep. Hence kindles offering paperwhite screens.


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