Traffic Cameras Rife With Bogus Violations, Audit Shows

[Chuckt]

Traffic Cameras Rife With Bogus Violations, Audit Shows

An evaluation in 2012 by consultant URS Corp. of the camera system run by Xerox State and Local Solutions found an error rate of more than 10 percent, a figure 40-times higher than initial claims, The Sun reported.

Some individual cameras were off by as much as 50 percent.

Traffic Cameras Rife With Bogus Violations, Audit Shows - ABC News

 

[Chuckt]

Its previous contractor, Xerox State and Local Solutions, left in late 2012, amid a Baltimore Sun investigation that documented erroneous speed readings from several cameras — including one that ticketed a driver for speeding while stopped at a red light.

City plans to pay Brekford $600,000 to end speed camera contract - baltimoresun.com

Here is the page for their speed camera investigations started when a camera gave a stopped motorist a speeding ticket:

Baltimore-area speed cameras | The Baltimore Sun investigates problems with speed cameras in Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Howard County and roads run by the Maryland state highway adminstration - baltimoresun.com

 

[R.D.]

becuase sometimes the picture doesn't tell the whole story

Words to live by

 

[Jughead]

Do they still sell Photoshield? It's a clear plastic license plate cover designed to make your license plate unreadable and distorted to traffic cameras when viewed at an angle.

 

[R.C. Christian]

Yes.

 

[Jarlaxle]

The solution to traffic cameras is a good target rifle and some steel-cored match ammo.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Traffic camera fines have been getting tossed out of court when challenged since they violate due process if a law enforcement officer doesn't first review the footage to confirm the crime.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Do they still sell Photoshield? It's a clear plastic license plate cover designed to make your license plate unreadable and distorted to traffic cameras when viewed at an angle.

Mythbusters tested many such techniques and gadgets - none worked.

 

[R.C. Christian]

The solution to traffic cameras is a good target rifle and some steel-cored match ammo.

Screw that, just use a shotgun.

 

[Asclepias]

Use an attorney. They make traffic tickets go away like lotion does dry skin.

 

[ShootSpeeders]

So why haven't i ever been caught by one of these "bogus" cameras.?

Speed cameras are very accurate and save lives. We need more of them.

 

[ShootSpeeders]

Traffic camera fines have been getting tossed out of court when challenged since they violate due process if a law enforcement officer doesn't first review the footage to confirm the crime.

That's very rare. Fact is most speeding crimes are not crimes. Neither a misdemeanor nor a felony. They are classed as infractions, like a parking ticket, and due process is not required.

You are a legal ignoramus.

 

[Chuckt]

Do they still sell Photoshield? It's a clear plastic license plate cover designed to make your license plate unreadable and distorted to traffic cameras when viewed at an angle.

Mythbusters tested many such techniques and gadgets - none worked.

They use real film and digital now.

 

[Jarlaxle]

The solution to traffic cameras is a good target rifle and some steel-cored match ammo.

Screw that, just use a shotgun.

Never seen a shotgun that would hit reliably past a quarter mile!

 

[Jarlaxle]

So why haven't i ever been caught by one of these "bogus" cameras.?

Speed cameras are very accurate and save lives. We need more of them.

You probably live in an area with no (or very few) cameras. You truly are a gross ignoranus.