Would you work on a 'traffic surveillance' project?

[MarillionFan]

I'd do it. No question. Interesting project.

I'd also make sure that I coded in a rule for my own car that excluded it from the resulting speeding report while also adding a rule that added 20 mph to the actual speed of anyone with a personalised number plate or fluffy dice.

[SimonMac]

I'd do it. No question. Interesting project.

I'd also make sure that I coded in a rule for my own car that excluded it from the resulting speeding report while also adding a rule that added 20 mph to the actual speed of anyone with a personalised number plate or fluffy dice.

Whats worse, someone who pays £2-3k for a proper personalised plate, or the cheap skate with a bog standard number plate that they use black tape to make look like something else?

[d000hg]

EO I don't think the cameras will force you do drive at 30 and plough into children. It's a good line for the judge if you fancied taking out some chavs but I doubt they will go for it.

[Paddy]

I think the primary objective is to catch the people breaking the law?

So what if they are being used to raise money? People are shouting out that the police are underfunded as it is so why not penalise people who are breaking the law.

The thing I have most umbridge about is your last comment

This is where my earlier comment comes into play, if you object to the law fight it, not the speed cameras.

You are so naïve. The speed cameras are run by a so called “safety camera partnerships”. These are run by private companies and they get about 30% of the revenue. The fines are then administered by the police who also outsource it to a private company. Unsurprisingly the “safety camera partnership” in Hampshire is owned by a County Councillor and ex chief constable.

You remind me of the collaborators in the Channel Islands during WWII who reported escaped prisoners because "it was the law".

[conned tractor]

You are so naïve. The speed cameras are run by a so called “safety camera partnerships”. These are run by private companies and they get about 30% of the revenue. The fines are then administered by the police who also outsource it to a private company. Unsurprisingly the “safety camera partnership” in Hampshire is owned by a County Councillor and ex chief constable.

You remind me of the collaborators in the Channel Islands during WWII who reported escaped prisoners because "it was the law".

Well said Paddy.

[thunderlizard]

Presumably testing a system like that involves tear-arsing around town at breakneck speed in a souped-up Cosworth and making sure you get logged in all the right places. Sounds like a top lark. Go for it.

[wobbegong]

If you have a moral objection to it, don't do it. Be true to yourself, something else will come along. I turned down work at the Molins plant in the late 80's. I didn't want to be part of the tobacco industry. I'd do it again today.

[SimonMac]

You are so naïve. The speed cameras are run by a so called “safety camera partnerships”. These are run by private companies and they get about 30% of the revenue. The fines are then administered by the police who also outsource it to a private company. Unsurprisingly the “safety camera partnership” in Hampshire is owned by a County Councillor and ex chief constable.

You sure about that? Do you have a link, I would imagine not as its total tuplip, SCP are not privately run, in the example you gave Hampshire the fines are admisitered inhouse Hampshire Constabulary: Central Ticket Office all be it with Civilian Employees rather than Police Officers, which you must agree is a better idea than have a £30k a year bobby stuck behind a desk

You remind me of the collaborators in the Channel Islands during WWII who reported escaped prisoners because "it was the law".

Did you just quote Godwins Law?

[Mich the Tester]

surely the whole point is that the cameras take the judgement out of the situation.
It becomes black and white, right or wrong.
I can cite a thousand ocasions when the law said '70 is ok' and my common sense said 'do 50'
and a thousand times when the law said 'no more than 70' and my common sense said 'do 90'


have you ever driven down a road where the law says 30, and you can see toddlers running around chasing a foot ball?

if you stuck to 30 and killed one, would the camera fans be happy ?

of course not. so we have to use our common sense at one end of the scale, but not at the money making end of the scale

mmmmmmm

Spot on.

[Durbs]

For the record, PLEASE don't put speed camers on the Cat and Fiddle.....

Have you been up the Cat 'n Fiddle recently???

I used to ride up there every weekend but its now all those average speed cameras that track you over the route so you cant just slow down for the cameras themselves. rode it last weekend, is rubbish now.