"NO ESCAPE FOR SPEEDERS"
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www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13106832,00.html
skynews said:
NO ESCAPE FOR SPEEDERS
New speed cameras able to snap drivers from one mile away are to be issued to police forces.
The ProLaser III is designed to weed out motorists who slow down just before conventional speed cameras and before accelerating when out of range.
The £8,000 hand-held devices take pictures so clear that they can even capture who is behind the wheel at the time.
Road users groups said the latest weapon in the war on motorists may be a step too far.
Edmund King, executive director of the RAC Foundation, said: "Why do we need high-tech cameras that can spot a car a mile away?
"Why not put the money into traffic cops who, unlike a speed camera, can stop a wide range of offences and not just speeding?"
He added that while Government statistics listed speeding as the seventh highest cause of accidents, inattention - where drivers may be looking for traffic cameras - was one of the highest.
Others said the distance from which the cameras can be used breaks promises to ensure measures to combat speeding are conspicuous to drivers.
The government has, at last, reacted to drivers complaints that speed cameras/guns are usually hidden from view – by producing one that works a full mile away. This way, the gun and operator are no longer hidden, but drivers still stand no change of seeing the smeggers.
I don’t see how the Prolaser 3 can take pictures though.
They are tlking about the same thing here
[url]www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=101762[/url]
By the looks of the unit on TV it was wired upto a black box under the tripod, nice touch on the report was the fact the scamera van was parked up round the corner and unit was on the path, just in case they could have seen the van, don't want to lose any money.
Malc
[url]www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=101762[/url]
By the looks of the unit on TV it was wired upto a black box under the tripod, nice touch on the report was the fact the scamera van was parked up round the corner and unit was on the path, just in case they could have seen the van, don't want to lose any money.
Malc
But there is no offence until the Police Officer has "formed an opinion of excess speed" and this is obviously impossible from anything more than a hundred metres or so.
Is the law going to change so that the speed-measuring equipment will become the primary evidnce rather than the corroboration ?
Is the law going to change so that the speed-measuring equipment will become the primary evidnce rather than the corroboration ?
Sorry guys, didn't know this was done before. 
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