Theres two sides to that technology coin !

[SteamWake]

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/lo...-50074717.html

Area drivers looking to outwit police speed traps and traffic cameras are using an iPhone application and other global positioning system devices that pinpoint the location of the cameras.

Photo radar tickets generated nearly $1 billion in revenues for D.C. during fiscal years 2005 to 2008.
In the current fiscal year, Montgomery County expects to make $29 million from its red light and speed cameras. Lanier said efforts to outlaw the software would be too difficult.
She said, "with the Internet and all the new technology, it's almost impossible to stop the flow of information."

[geetrue]

They didn't have camera's back in 1966 when I lived up in Portland, Maine, but they had toll boths on the Maine turnpike in those days that had a toll booth at each end of the network ...

In other words there were no side roads, no exit without another toll booth and they would take your ticket and punch it like in a time clock thingy.

I was driving a brand new Shelby GT 350 hitting 6,500 rpm on a big tach right in the middle of the dash which would equal with my rear end gear close to 120 mph.

The State of Maine sent me a speeding ticket in the mail saying there was no way I could have made that trip that fast in the time alloted to me.

[SUBMAN1]

Most states have a requirement that an officer is required to issue a ticket to the person at fault. Most of these speed cameras are managed by a private company with no arrest or citation powers. This means, you could probably never have to pay for and speeding camera ticket. Simply drop the ticket on some lawyers desk and for the nominal fee that keeps your insurance rates from going up, you can blow off any speed cam ticket there is.

Think of speed cams as nothing more than a request for you to please send them money. Please send me money! Please? I promise to be nice if you bay the sudo fine on this non-official, but official looking piece of paper!

Speed cams should be banned anyway. They have been proven to cause more accidents from people slamming on their brakes to avoid the ticket, and at the same time, are nothing more than another way to Tax the population. If they plan to keep using them, the proceeds should be re-routed from the state and into some sort of charity org.

-S

[Buddahaid]

I don't get speeding tickets.


Budahaid

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Buddahaid

I don't get speeding tickets.


Budahaid

I had a couple of those when I was young. Hat the 1700cc engine with full lift cams electronic ignition two by two barrell carborators.

I could pull the engine strip it down, rebuild it, and re-instal it in one day. .

The engine removal process still amuses me to this day. you would put jack stands under the motor or support it on blocks. Undo four bolts which held the bell housing to the gearbox, the get a couple of friends (you could do it with two in a pinch) pick up the body of the car over the engine and roll the car body away leaving the engine sitting on the ground :rotfl:. The engine weighed almost as much as the car body.

Yea the engine would only last about 30,000 miles (that is if the clutch dident burn up first) but they were fast as just about any sports car off the line and could get up to well over 85mph. Probably could have reached 100 but i was afraid the wheels would go flying off :rotfl: