New speed cams

[spookytooth]

Just had this sent to me.

NZ Police to upgrade radar-based speed cameras | Print |
Ken Lewis
Monday, 19 February 2007
The New Zealand Police is looking to replace its radar-based mobile speed cameras and is seeking proposals from suitably qualified organisations.

The devices are a key part of the police's ongoing road safety campaign, which has seen the lowest road fatality rate in 40 years.

Despite these results, speed remains the number one killer of vehicle users, so the enforcement of speed limits remain a key area of highway policing.
To this end, the law enforcement agency is after a device that can automatically detect vehicles travelling in excess of a preset speed trigger limit and that can also capture an image of that vehicle. Date, speed and other details should also be added to the image so that enforcement action can be taken.
The department also requires software to manage the technology, along with solutions to manage the transfer of the captured data to the central processing centre.

Full documentation can be obtained by emailing: tenders.national@police.govt.nz. This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it This RFP closes on April 6, 2007.




If they all become photo based, next thing is they will want number plates on the front of bikes!

[Lou Girardin]

What's the bet that they go to Ku band as in Europe.
My V1 detects Ku, go for it boys!

[Toaster]

How about a campaign to fight crime huh?

[Gremlin]

How about a campaign to fight crime huh?

don't you read the papers?!??!?!?! this IS THE MOST HENIOUS crime!!

[James Deuce]

Speed doesn't kill. The sudden stop does. Silly Police. They need Stop cameras.

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

Speed doesn't kill. The sudden stop does. Silly Police. They need Stop cameras.

Here I was under the illusion that its stupid people that kill next you will tell me that easter bunny isn't real...

[Lou Girardin]

Speed is the number one killer on the road today. It is responsible for 357% of all accidents.
Why, just this week a girl fell off the boot of a moving car and died. The Police are stumped why it happened because the driver wasn't speeding.
I say that there should be speed cameras every 100 metres on all roads. Then no-one would die. Ever.

[idleidolidyll]

How about a campaign to fight crime huh?

indeed
fight crime instead of collect revenue? that'd need a fundamental change in philosophy

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

Speed is the number one killer on the road today. It is responsible for 357% of all accidents.
Why, just this week a girl fell off the boot of a moving car and died. The Police are stumped why it happened because the driver wasn't speeding.
I say that there should be speed cameras every 100 metres on all roads. Then no-one would die. Ever.

and make it so walking pass the them sets them off... :-) that way speed won't kill pedistrans either... (cause when yuou bump into someone...

oh oh and the microchip thing... with GPS tracking on persons and vehicles and can be used for speed, and if your signal is the write one the chip disables the big and and and have a laser beam from the satilite that shoots and cage driver for doing studip things on the road...

and and then you use it to track crimes and fry there brains when they do crime, or just cause you don't like them, (saves money on our prison system) and will have less crime...

While we are at it lets have it make fracking coffee in the morning

need coffee...

[gixermike]

this is what happedn in the uk a few years back. fixed cameras are cheaper than the HP.

at least fixed cameras are easier to dodge...and the police get less interested in having mobile sites in the same area....

but in between the cameras

[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 !

[ManDownUnder]

Bugger speeding... Diesels are the problem!

Min of Health figures (can't find 'em at the mo - were on telly the other day)... fine air particulates from Diesel vehicles are responsible for 400 deaths a year.

Those are reliable deaths... noe of this hit and miss stuff with speeding (excuse the dreadful pun)

[more_fasterer]

the police's ongoing road safety campaign, which has seen the lowest road fatality rate in 40 years.

HAHAHAHA!

speed remains the number one killer of vehicle users

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Statistics: proving your lies are the truth since ages ago

[vifferman]

this is what happedn in the uk a few years back. fixed cameras are cheaper than the HP.

at least fixed cameras are easier to dodge...and the police get less interested in having mobile sites in the same area....

but in between the cameras

I was pleased to read that a town in the US got rid of speed cameras by attacking them with paintball guns until the authorities got the message and removed them. I also liked the campaign in the UK to destroy Gatsos (fixed speed cameras), usually by blowing them up or throwing burning tyres over them. At several hundred thousand squid a time, it soon becomes uneconomic to keep replacing them.

What I don't get is this: if there are several hundred thousand (365k, wasn't it??) speed camera tickets a year, and if most people are speeding, doesn't this clearly state that people think the speed limits are too low? And aren't the laws of the land supposed to reflect the will of the people?

The same with the public opposition to toll roads: the general populace have empahtically stated they are NOT in favour of these, yet the Gummint is persisting in trying to go this route.

In both cases, the Gummint is trying to overcome opposition to what they do by using brainwashing campaigns to change the way we think. It seems to be working in some ways - I was browsing that dreadful Snap't website yesterday, and there were some lemmings on there emphatically stating that Speed Kills, despite evidence posted by KB members that this was erroneous. State an untruth often enough and loudly enough, and it becomes fact? Like Globular Yawning?

[Squeak the Rat]

Bugger speeding... Diesels are the problem!

Min of Health figures (can't find 'em at the mo - were on telly the other day)... fine air particulates from Diesel vehicles are responsible for 400 deaths a year.

Those are reliable deaths... noe of this hit and miss stuff with speeding (excuse the dreadful pun)

Exactly. And at the same time the powers that be are stupid enough to expect us to believe their arguments that speed cameras and enforcement isn't about revenue earning.

If they truly wanted to save New Zealanders lives they'd be addressing this problem also...... but the cost of saving these lives is too high obviously.