Got Booked Speeding

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testing your intercooler?

[Slymeat]

Australian Standard AS4691.2-2003 explains that

The NSW Police Academy, Radar Engineering Unit, Pro Laser II Training Program Manual explains that as an optional test, an officer may have another officer drive a patrol vehicle at a known speed and verify the Pro Laser II's speed against the patrol vehicle's reading. This is interesting as the patrol vehicle's speedometer may only be accurate to ±10% as required by "Australian Design Rule 18' (the vehicle's speedometer must indicate the actual vehicle speed, for all speeds above 40 km/h, to an accuracy of ±10%.) even though the Kustom Pro Laser II claims accuracy of +2/-3 km/h. The document further highlights that weather conditions affect the Lidar unit including:

Zap the highway patrol have a second calibrated speed indicator which forms part of the radar system it displays a digital speed. This displays an extremely accurated speed that could be checked and not the oem speedometer, the rest was tooo much for me to read.

[Slymeat]

dude, I feel your pain, only diffrence is I lost my licence for 6months, it was about 3am drivin home from my missus house, jus cruzn doin 85 in a 80, the diry SOB hidin behind the base of a bridge, clocked me at 85(mind you I seen him do a u-turn so I breaked) then followed me into a 60 n got me for 25 over, even though I was doin 60 in a 60. he just got a hard on when he seen then word TURBO next to a green p even though im perfectly legal to drive it. I work security in a hospital n the same officer bought in a high risk patient, he wanted to leave cuz it was his knock of time, he recognised me and he stayd there for another 8hours, hahaha. dirty.. that's my useless story

Meanwhile the hospital have to explain why they have breached the memorandum of understanding, good luck with that I am sure the hospital heirachcy will be very happy when they have to deal with the resultant complaint.

[Slymeat]

What about trying to outrun the cops - that's a good reason...

Only if you can drive at more than 300,000 kilometers per second the speed of electromagnetic radiation ie- radio waves and light. Veh1 " In pursuit!" Veh2 " I'll lay down the road spikes."

[Iconic Bionic]

If 20 cars were doing 80 in a 60 zone then the local authorities should consider changing it to a 70 zone.

Is it a known blackspot?

Were there houses nearby?

I must say the police strategy in this instance seems to be to fine speeders rather than reduce their speed. If they truly wanted people to reduce their speed in this area they should have made themselves more visible.

Oh well, sux to live in Sydaney

Rarely if ever, do the so called authorities increase the speed limit in the interest of speeding motorists?????? Your first sentence is just mind boggling.

A blackspot, well what a broad term, however the intersection with the pedestian crossing at the bottom of a hill with a small curveture in the road, has had a recent fatality and near misses regularly complained about by local residents. So it just cant be ignored now can it? Someone doing warp speed out the fornt of your house would eventually get to you as well, though this issue directly relates to pedestrian safety.

How much more visible could they be? The cars are all fully marked in the photos provided. Maybe they should have hired a santa to wave a sign a few 100 metres before the point of no return, but even santa doesnt want to stand there all year round.

Education can only go so far before enforcement must commence.

I.B.

[Iconic Bionic]

Only if you can drive at more than 300,000 kilometers per second the speed of electromagnetic radiation ie- radio waves and light. Veh1 " In pursuit!" Veh2 " I'll lay down the road spikes."

Or just for 6 months until the statute of limitations kick in.

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Maybe they should have hired a santa to wave a sign a few 100 metres before the point of no return, but even santa doesnt want to stand there all year round.

....or a bikini girl :ladysman:

[ZAP]

Zap the highway patrol have a second calibrated speed indicator which forms part of the radar system it displays a digital speed. This displays an extremely accurated speed that could be checked and not the oem speedometer, the rest was tooo much for me to read.

Sly,

LIDAR are used only while stationary, so there is no ground pulse from a radar unit, like you have with the Eagle Radars. I bet they never do daily calibrations on the LIDARs

I have a LIDAR speed/range finder. I can get a speed measurement from stationary items without any problem.

I have also tried and suceeded in getting a panning error while having the unit mounted on a tripod.

Wished I could book some of the yahoos going at 80 in the 40 school zone I live on.

You should see them brake when I am doing speed checks. :ladysman:

I would always contest any handheld LIDAR fine, no matter what, and I bet I would win every time as it is a proven error.

The problem the police have is they cannot seem to fit a monopod on their HWP bikes.

[Slymeat]

You probably got me wrong zap I was talking about the bit were you said testing against a car doing a known speed and how most cars are only within 10% a quote which is quite correct. I worked in the same building as the HWP and watched them callibrate at the start of each shift so most units would have a cursery check twice a day. It is quite an interesting process but simple and quick if it's correct, else they change the unit over.

[Iconic Bionic]

Sly,

LIDAR are used only while stationary, so there is no ground pulse from a radar unit, like you have with the Eagle Radars. I bet they never do daily calibrations on the LIDARs

I have a LIDAR speed/range finder. I can get a speed measurement from stationary items without any problem.

I have also tried and suceeded in getting a panning error while having the unit mounted on a tripod.

Wished I could book some of the yahoos going at 80 in the 40 school zone I live on.

You should see them brake when I am doing speed checks. :ladysman:

I would always contest any handheld LIDAR fine, no matter what, and I bet I would win every time as it is a proven error.

The problem the police have is they cannot seem to fit a monopod on their HWP bikes.

Somone posted about using another police car to accuralty check the Lidar, then also wrote how the speedometer could be out by 10% which is correct, though that's not the one slymeat is reffering too. Then the confusion appears to have snowballed from there.

oh he beat me too it.

Edited 30/01/08 04:16 AM by Iconic Bionic