snarfattack
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Just Bob wrote:So, you've gone 80 MPH while using your cell phone to take pictures. Certainly not the sharpest knife in the drawer, are you. Just an accident waiting to happen.
And how is using a one button function on a phone at 80mph any different than operating a radio, XM receiver, or GPS/Navigation? At least I still had my eyes on the road and not on some other screen.
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Bumpyroad
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I also bought some reflective spray paint for my license plate/cover. supposedly some/most/all of those speed cameras operate a flash and the reflection bounces back and sort of blots out your plate. it is fully readable normally however.
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slow drivers, keep right. damn right i speed!
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krazy_dave
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Bumpyroad wrote:I also bought some reflective spray paint for my license plate/cover. supposedly some/most/all of those speed cameras operate a flash and the reflection bounces back and sort of blots out your plate. it is fully readable normally however.
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I'd suggest you take a look at the mythbusters thing also. They tested that stuff as well.
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tabraha
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Ah yes, the world of speeders (I don't mean the w/in 5mph crowd either). Let's haul butt down the road without even knowing the brand of tires we are rolling on, much less the condition, pressure or speed rating. Of course a couple will reply that they always keep tabs on their equipment but honestly have you looked at the "droolers" that are the average person flying by you going down the road? The only equipment they are aware of is the firmware on their iPhone.
I don't fly around here and there, and I'm not one of the 80mph fifth wheel crowd flying down the road. On the same token I've also gone faster than most people ever will and enjoy continuing to do so; just on closed circuits with other people of similarly increased skill levels and solid equipment. I always tell people I'm safer on a track routinely at 160mph than sharing the highway abound with people doing 80+ in unstable vehicles, decreased awareness and improperly maintained equipment.
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kaydeejay
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Only this afternoon I was driving on a Michigan freeway AT THE 70 MPH SPEED LIMIT. Car in front of me (also driving at the speed limit) sees a cruiser in the distance and slams on the brakes to 40mph. Nearly caused a pile-up!
THIS is what you will see when the cameras get distributed out there.
And yep, they proved in the UK it's about the money because they erect them on the wide open roads where they can catch the most people speeding, not at accident black-spots where they SHOULD be!
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Glad to see my post generate such great responses.
As for myself, I've invested in a GPS equipped Radar Detector that allows me to see ahead & slow down when I get a signal. The durn thing even looks behind too.
It also allows me to "mark" an intersection where they have strips in the road which activate cameras. That give me a warning waay ahead of the intersection.
So far, I've already saved the cost of the unit.
Now before someone gets twisted about the legality of radar detectors - they are legal in all states except Virginia, to my understanding.
Be careful out there.....
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As others have said, the UK and rest of Europe is full of them and they catch a lot of people and generate a lot of money. The SPECS ones are the nastiest - they take a digital photo of your tag when you enter a 'speed restricted zone' and another when you leave and calculate the time it took. The secret 'apparently' is to change lanes in the zone and 'apparently' you can't be prosecuted - so you swap speeders for lane changers - great!
Also remember that most speed limits were set when we were driving 1950's trucks (well I wasn't but most of you were LOL) whereas today with improved vehicle design and safety features, the current speed limit may no longer be appropriate in some areas. Also states vary - for example you can drive along a straight desert road in Oregon at 65mph and the same type of road in Texas or Arizona at 75mph - what's the difference?
It's another piece of out of date legislation that needs to be redone - it never will be of course.
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stevelv wrote:As others have said, the UK and rest of Europe is full of them and they catch a lot of people and generate a lot of money. The SPECS ones are the nastiest - they take a digital photo of your tag when you enter a 'speed restricted zone' and another when you leave and calculate the time it took. The secret 'apparently' is to change lanes in the zone and 'apparently' you can't be prosecuted - so you swap speeders for lane changers - great!
And it's a matter of time before they try and make more money off tolls roads here in the USA by charging/fining you for how fast you drive when using the electronic toll collectors.
Makes living in the middle of nowhere look more attractive every day.
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snarfattack wrote:stevelv wrote:As others have said, the UK and rest of Europe is full of them and they catch a lot of people and generate a lot of money. The SPECS ones are the nastiest - they take a digital photo of your tag when you enter a 'speed restricted zone' and another when you leave and calculate the time it took. The secret 'apparently' is to change lanes in the zone and 'apparently' you can't be prosecuted - so you swap speeders for lane changers - great!
And it's a matter of time before they try and make more money off tolls roads here in the USA by charging/fining you for how fast you drive when using the electronic toll collectors.
Makes living in the middle of nowhere look more attractive every day.
Stupidest thing they could possible do. After spending countless millions to set up the EZ-Pass system, then turn around and use it to hand out speeding tickets?
Would you keep an electronic device in your windshield that will get you speeding tickets? People would have a cerimonial burning of all their EZ-Pass transponders within the first week. This would render all the millions spent on EZ-Pass worthless, they would have to hire a ton more toll collectors, and we would be back to massive traffic jams at the tool booths.
Then again, knowing the stupidity behind most government decisions, they would probably actually do just that. 
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