New speed cams

**James Deuce** · 23rd February 2007, 09:42

Originally Posted by vifferman

And aren't the laws of the land supposed to reflect the will of the people?

No.

10fc

**avgas** · 23rd February 2007, 09:50

How about a speed camera that is like 20MP so that it takes such detail pics that they can see that a)WOF expired, b) REG expired and c) the rock or paintball comming towards it.

**Citroenjunkie** · 23rd February 2007, 12:34

I'm sure the topic of how deadly disease-holes are has been flogged to death but I want to know why the ACC levy component of my registration is so bloody high when I most probably will be the only injured party if I bin it, but if some Remuera Bovine sneezes in her Grunge Rover she most likely kills three or four pedestrians and a threatened species of slugs and her ACC levy is pitifully small.

Why?

Anyone interested in starting a petition to get 4X4's banned from sealed roads??? Go on you know you want to do it!!

**James Deuce** · 23rd February 2007, 12:39

As Ixion has pointed out before, if we paid the correct share of the ACC levy in regard to costs attributable to motorcycle accidents, we would be paying in the $400-$500 range for the levy alone.

**James Deuce** · 23rd February 2007, 12:40

Originally Posted by Citroenjunkie

roads??? Go on you know you want to do it!!

Subaru WRXs. STi Foresters and Mitsubishi Legnum's are too much fun. Not interested in that idea much.

**MWVT** · 27th February 2007, 14:49

Originally Posted by Jim2

As Ixion has pointed out before, if we paid the correct share of the ACC levy in regard to costs attributable to motorcycle accidents, we would be paying in the $400-$500 range for the levy alone.

I don't feel too bad, i tend to cover the 500 a year in other forms of 'tax', just doing my bit.

**slopster** · 3rd March 2007, 20:57

Originally Posted by davereid

OK, so you go and buy two welding helmets, the type with the LCD glass that turns black instantly you strike the arc.

Remove the glass, and put one sheet over the left hand side of your number plate, and one sheet over the right hand side.

At (say) 25 hz you switch first the left hand side to black, then alternate to the right hand side.

ie one side of your number plate is always covered.

The police wont notice - persistance of vision will show the entire number plate to a human observer.

But a camera with a flash has only a 1/10,000 sec of flash. So it will only ever record one side of the plate.

So bring on the speed cameras - its the last ticket I'll ever get !

The shutter will be open for at least a relatively long 1/500th of a second which is probably long enough to catch both sides

**Ixion** · 3rd March 2007, 21:10

No, becasue each side is covered for 1/25th of a second. So to get both sides it would have to be open for 2/25th of a secnd.

**shafty** · 3rd March 2007, 21:51

I still smile when I think of the Pole Mounted Speed Cam which was STOLEN from Pyes Pa Rd a few years ago. Haven't seen it pop up on Tard Me yet......lol

Any of you guys get given an extra large digital camera for Xmas a while ago?

**Wenier** · 4th March 2007, 10:33

Its funny how they still reckon that their speed campaign is what made the statistics drop. I reckon we could put it down to the advances in newer cars and so on that make them safer and handle better. Its the shitty old speeding cars that crash and i bet alot of it has to do with the driver.

I remember in wellington a pole camera also got cut down and taken, classic!

**terbang** · 4th March 2007, 10:52

Hah I've seen a few cheap and effective antispeedcamera devices on motorbikes. The Rego holder..!
The Kiwi equivalent of Captain Gatso would certainly burn up the revenue gathered by such devices.
As time has gone by I have become more accepting and do agree with a lot of the police strategies with regard to speeding. If you speed and a cop gets ya then fair enough and its still cheaper than getting killed or maimed for life. Thats policing. However speed cameras don't wash too well with me, not because I get stung by them, but because I see them as 'Cop out' (excuse the pun) policing. A driver could drive past a speed camera with bald tyres, no licence, no brain because they are pissed to the eyeballs and if doing a couple of kays over the limit they will only get caught for speeding and recieve no demerit..! A real copper, doing real road policing, would make the difference.