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Motorcyclist caught flying off bike at 66 mph gets ticketed [Two Wheels Bad]
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Report: Scanners embedded in road to result in fines for those driving on worn tires?
Filed under: Etc., Government/Legal, Safety, UK
Here's a new one. According to AutoExpress, police in the UK are looking into scanners embedded into roadways that can detect the depth of a vehicle's tire tread. If your rubber doesn't meet a set of pre-determined parameters, you could eventually expect to see a fine show up in the mail. Currently, law enforcement says that the technology will only be used in checkpoint scenarios to alert drivers of a potentially dangerous situation, but given that the system costs somewhere around €50,000, or $67,500 at current conversion rates, critics are concerned that the depth-measuring device will be used as a cudgel to drum up revenue.
That concern is bolstered by the fact that Trevor Hall, a major proponent of speed cameras in the UK, is also behind the measure.
We're all for improving road safety in any way possible, but if this new technology results in fines for motorists, we have concerns. After all, measures like the one proposed here would almost certainly target low-income drivers and unfairly position revenue generation on their shoulders. After all, if you can afford new tires, chances are better that you'll buy them.
Scanners embedded in road to result in fines for those driving on worn tires? originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Report: NYC’s Bloomberg wants traffic cameras ‘on every corner’
Filed under: Etc., Government/Legal, Safety, Technology
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has made it clear that he wants to see more traffic light cameras in the Big Apple, saying that he'd have the devices on every street corner if possible. According to The New York Daily News, the city brought in $52 million in fines generated by red light cameras last year alone. The mayor has been pushing for an increase in the number of cameras in the city from 150 to 225. A bill to do just that has passed the state senate in June, but has lost momentum in the Senate.
Bloomberg doesn't just want a jump in the number of cameras, however. He also wants to publish the names of those who blow through the stop lights in local papers to help shame wrongdoers into changing their ways. What's more, the mayor wants to look into the possibility of adding speed cameras to the mix. Big brother is coming to NYC.
NYC's Bloomberg wants traffic cameras 'on every corner' originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sledgehammer-wielding anti-speed camera nutjob shuts down Maryland freeway [Car Crime]
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Video: VW’s Fun Theory creates a speed camera lottery
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Volkswagen's Fun Theory speed camera lottery - Click above to watch video after the jump
Volkwagen's Fun Theory experiments have been all about proving that people will do the right thing if you make the right thing fun to do. For instance, people threw recyclables into a bin just to hear the noise it made. The latest hijinks come courtesy of Kevin Richardson, an American whose idea was selected for the next Fun Theory experiment.
This time, the challenge was to make driving the speed limit rewarding, and Richardson's idea was a speed camera lottery. Although it doesn't sound the least bit compelling, his idea worked. We won't spoil the surprise here, so follow the jump to see it in action.
[Source: YouTube]
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Video: VW's Fun Theory creates a speed camera lottery originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 28 Nov 2010 13:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Arizona’s freeway speed cameras snap their last speeders
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In span of about two-and-a-half years, Arizona's highway speed camera program, run by Australian company Redflex, mailed 1,105,935 tickets, or close to 1,125 tickets every day. In 2009, a group called CameraFraud went to work to get the cameras taken down, and after a year of effort they've been successful: Redflex shut the 78 fixed and mobile cameras down at midnight, July 16.
The group convinced Arizona's new governer, Jan Brewer, that the cameras were all about money. Brewer's predecessor, Janet Napolitano, had cited the fact that the cameras would bring in $120 million every year for the state. But since tickets needed to be delivered by process servers to those caught speeding in order to be legally binding, 66% of the violations were never paid. Instead of reaping $120 million annually, only $78 million was collected over the entire 2.5 years.
There remain some Arizona municipalities with speed-detecting cameras still in use, and CameraFraud is now taking aim at them. Also, the shutdown doesn't affect the red light cameras, a program run by American Traffic Solutions, which are still in operation.
[Source: The Newspaper]
Arizona's freeway speed cameras snap their last speeders originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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