And just cause I love this picture so much:

In Germany they need both the license plate and a picture of the driver to give an automated ticket. The computer automatically blurs out the passengers as a privacy matter. Some genius has a British Audi in Germany and thus the driver gets blurred out instead of the passenger. So the German police got a bunch of picture like the following:



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There are better ways to challenge speed cameras:

Shadow Blasko: 30 seconds and a gas powered angle grinder, but (and get this) these units allegedly have vibration detectors which start video and audio recording (transmitted wirelessly), and send out a distress call if the levels are breached.

The ones here have smoke detectors and heat detectors.  Some of the ones in the UK now stream a video feed of the other cameras back someplace else because they get broken so often.

If you don't like speed cameras, remind your local homeless population that there are often $6,000 cameras in them.

snuff3r: Here's a far easier way to avoid the ticket and time you've wasted of the court system: Don't farking speed, and if you do and get caught out, cop it on the chin and stfu.

Or let's get real about the speed limits. Go five mph below the limit so that when your car accidentally goes a little faster you are still under the limit.

People assume that if the limit is 40 you should drive 40. That's just not true. The absolute limit is 40, you should drive at 35 and if you go down a hill and it creeps up to 39 you're still safe.

L.D. Ablo: Shadow Blasko: L.D. Ablo: There are better ways to challenge speed cameras:

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Good luck getting to Elmwood's. They bought the best.

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Give me five minutes and a Sawzall.

30 seconds and a gas powered angle grinder, but (and get this) these units allegedly have vibration detectors which start video and audio recording (transmitted wirelessly), and send out a distress call if the levels are breached.

I dunno if I believe that, but I would not put it past them.

Shadow Blasko: L.D. Ablo: There are better ways to challenge speed cameras:

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Good luck getting to Elmwood's. They bought the best.

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Use a lasso?  Fill water balloons with paint & chuck 'em?  Train a monkey to disable 'em?  Chain saw?

I've got it!  Hook it up to your truck and just drive away with it.

snuff3r: Here's a far easier way to avoid the ticket and time you've wasted of the court system: Don't farking speed, and if you do and get caught out, cop it on the chin and stfu.

Yeah... no.

The City of Elmwood in Cincinnati has cameras that were issuing "Pay to argue this" citations for 27 in a 25.

In a commercial district. Not a residential area.

A bankrupt little cesspool netted 1.5 MILLION in $200 automated fines in 6 months.

Oh, and they may have had a little problem with database corruption as well.

http://www.wlwt.com/news/local-news/hamilton-county/Hundreds-of-spee di ng-tickets-thrown-out-in-Elmwood-Place/-/13550662/17758452/-/hiihfdz/- /index.html

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130109/NEWS01/301090172/Speed-c am era-take-1-5-million

No non-corrupt cop is going to pull you over for 27 in a 25 unless you're begging for it. The system was not designed for "yes you were speeding, no you were not" binary enforcement. Taking the humans out of the loop has made it crazy.

TFA: "The trial is weighted against you. If the police officer says it's calibrated properly, then that's enough preponderance of the evidence for the judge. He didn't show me any evidence it was calibrated correctly," says Williams."

No, the countless certification and testing procedures are weighted against you. Governments spend a LOT of money ensuring a super low error rate for speed cameras and they're tested regularly for compliance. The judge knows this. Unless you have evidence otherwise you're not going to win your case. If you were serious about thinking you had a chance to beat the ticket on these grounds then you would have done your research and put in a GIPA/FOI request for test/compliance data on the camera in question.

Here's a far easier way to avoid the ticket and time you've wasted of the court system: Don't farking speed, and if you do and get caught out, cop it on the chin and stfu.