The Wasteland - ACT Style

[nerm]

It's a camera that will register when you are at the Hospital and then again at the Monaro Hwy..... if you were not doing 80kms the whole way between the points, it will know, cos you got there too fast Then you get booked.

Its just going to make everyone super paranoid and drive at 70.. thus making the traffic problems worse in peak hour. It will also cause alot more road rage as there is nothing more frustrating than someone driving UNDER the posted speed limit infront of you

[TiTAN]

Its just going to make everyone super paranoid and drive at 70.. thus making the traffic problems worse in peak hour. It will also cause alot more road rage as there is nothing more frustrating than someone driving UNDER the posted speed limit infront of you

will also most likely increase accidents as everyone is paying attention to how fast they are going not the traffic around them.

[Trozzle]

Yeah it's vehicle recognition. It sees your car, remembers what it looks like, then picks it again at the next camera. It works out your average speed between the 2 points based on how far they are apart and how long it took you to get there, and books you if you exceeded the limit.

That being said, if it takes you 20 minutes to travel between them at the speed limit, you could stop for 10 minutes after passing the first one, then double the speed limit (160km/h in this case) the whole way there, and not get booked by this system.

[J'son]

True enough Troy lol. But they'll prob still have regular cops driving around

Yeh sounds in someways like a good idea, but in others, like something to create more issues.

Does the sydney toll roads work like this - the ones where you use etags etc... cos if it doesn't, surprised they've not implemented it already. They know when you enter, when you exit and how long it took between each point.

This sounds like a less than fun idea. Prob also is, say you average 3-5km's over, normally wouldn't get booked for that, but over the length of a long road, that saved a noticeable bit of time - they are gonna book you for that...

[nerm]

If it checks you at the Hospital then again at the Monaro Hwy you can just speed all the way then turn off before the next camera and take back roads... point to point average speed cameras only really work if there is no where to turn off between the cameras

[J'son]

Thus my point re the toll roads in sydney, they already register when you enter and exit.

But yeah does only work if there are no turn offs. But they could do it between two sets of intersections. EG parkway they could do one between lady denman drive and cotter road had they wanted to.

[Sir Lord Van Von Vader'ham]

i hate paying trolls

[Shell]

Its just going to make everyone super paranoid and drive at 70.. thus making the traffic problems worse in peak hour. It will also cause alot more road rage as there is nothing more frustrating than someone driving UNDER the posted speed limit infront of you

yup, or even sitting on 80km on that stretch where there's 3 lanes going from the hospital up the hill will be a PITA. If you don't use it much then you just just deal with it, but not every single fcking day... staring at your speedo all the way to work.

I'll probably go via the Monaro instead.

[J'son]

And then all the traffic gets offset (like during all the roadwork) and it becomes worse on other roads *sighs*

[rig136]

They are also doing this without fixed cameras in sydney or atleast talking about it. they mark a measured distance in the road and time you with someone in a plane overhead, so not only do you need to look out for cameras, you also need to be looking in the sky for the pricks with their stopwatches. although it is a big white line across the road so if you cross one slow down untill you cross another. i think it is being trialed on the F3 at the mo

[zebra]

Victoria Tried it a couple of years back, It failed miserably so they turned it off, I dont think they have switched it back on yet either.

[J'son]

They are also doing this without fixed cameras in sydney or atleast talking about it. they mark a measured distance in the road and time you with someone in a plane overhead, so not only do you need to look out for cameras, you also need to be looking in the sky for the pricks with their stopwatches. although it is a big white line across the road so if you cross one slow down untill you cross another. i think it is being trialed on the F3 at the mo

I saw the signs for that last time was up sydney way.

[rig136]

and its just another distraction from what you are supposed to be concentrating on.

[Sir Lord Van Von Vader'ham]

... which is doing speed while ur speeding with speed stripes on ya car!

dont mind me, i get stupid when im bored. wait - no ones allowed to 'fix' that statement, or i'll get my mum on ya.

wait, what am i saying now!!!

damn it, dont push add reply....dam

[MIVEC]

They are also doing this without fixed cameras in sydney or atleast talking about it. they mark a measured distance in the road and time you with someone in a plane overhead, so not only do you need to look out for cameras, you also need to be looking in the sky for the pricks with their stopwatches. although it is a big white line across the road so if you cross one slow down untill you cross another. i think it is being trialed on the F3 at the mo

Australia doesn't really have the population for this to work full time.

In the states they do it in remote areas like bumf**kville on the highways to catch the country drivers who go out there to.....enthusiastically drive their vehicles.

Anyway my point is SPEED KILLS!! OH WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE WHALES!

[nerm]

... which is doing speed while ur speeding with speed stripes on ya car!

dont mind me, i get stupid when im bored. wait - no ones allowed to 'fix' that statement, or i'll get my mum on ya.

wait, what am i saying now!!!

damn it, dont push add reply....dam

If I can't fix it can I repair it?

[TiTAN]

Australia doesn't really have the population for this to work full time.

In the states they do it in remote areas like bumf**kville on the highways to catch the country drivers who go out there to.....enthusiastically drive their vehicles.

Anyway my point is SPEED KILLS!! OH WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE WHALES!

speed has never killed anyone. its the sudden stop that does it.

[Sinista32]

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Edited November 26, 2010 by Sinista32

[Randon_I_Am]

This is purely without a doubt just a revenue raiser. Even one of the top traffic camera office guys thinks it's shit.

Also what they have done is taken all of the money out of maintaining the existing red light speed camera program to get this point to point thing going... Cough cough, red light speed cameras at the moment are lacking maintenance...

at least i usually only travel past the point to point one in my van, which is lucky to do 70 up the hill.

[Bullet32]

Funny as hell... I lol'd