Satellites Will Be Used to Catch You Speeding

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In Florida, if I am correct, they average your time between exits when using Sun Pass. You get from point A to point B faster then the speed limit would allow, you get ticketed. Obviously if you encounter traffic, your not going to get there faster.
 
[citation][nom]mlopinto2k1[/nom]In Florida, if I am correct, they average your time between exits when using Sun Pass. You get from point A to point B faster then the speed limit would allow, you get ticketed. Obviously if you encounter traffic, your not going to get there faster.[/citation]

But they do not know or can't prove what happened in between. What if somebody was abducted by a UFO and reappeared at the other end of the gate in less than usual time? What if a meteorological phenomenon occurred that bent space and time and made your car reappear on the other end in 2 seconds? Why should you get a ticket for that? And how accurate are their clocks in the first place? Like speed cameras they need to have good maintenance records, otherwise you can dispute that as well.
 
I always wanted to ask my calc prof this (cause they do it on some road in italy he said) mlopinto, but couldn't you just go hella fast all the way to the bend right before the check point and stop til your time averaged your speed out?
 
The company claims that the new technology can capture plates in all weather conditions, 24 hours a day
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how can they possibly spot a license plate from space, during night, while there is a snow storm/ rain storm? there cant possibly be enough light from any spectrum reflecting back into space to read the plates.
it sounds like a sham to me...
 
What if I am in Cornwall and hit a mini worm hole and instantly end up in London. Do I get a $306,463,257 ticket?

This must be addressed.
 
[citation][nom]rajaton[/nom]Check out the kids who sent the camera up into space for under $200 Maybe they'll do something like that![/citation]
That was on a balloon, and made it to 100,000 feet or so. It's MUCH cheaper to do that than it is to launch a satellite.

Satellites are many thousands of dollars a pound, minimum.
 
Do you even need the satalites for anything more than GPS? You could have two ground cameras (or more) at known positions, a computer will roughly match cars, and a human will verify that they are the same licence plates. Of course I'm assuming a lot here - the article is not exactly clear what the satalite is used for.

Why do you even need a satalite?

Canada already has photo radar (is it not in the U.S.?) You can be charged as the owner of a vehicle that was speeding. It's not considered a moving violation, so it doesn't matter who was driving.

 
Unless were going to have to put number plates on the roof of our car,
thier going to have a hard time seeing my number plate all the
time.
 
Smartglass + Licence plate = Can't photo dis!

Or you can just have a black car then dispute it was the other black car right next to you... since everyone owns a black car.
 
I wish they would put as much time and energy into catching real criminals (i.e rapists, burglars etc.) instead of blatant revenue generating....
 
love oh love i gotta tell ya how I feel about you cause I oh I can't go a minute without your love like a satellite i'm in orbit all the way around you and I would fall out into the night can't go a minute without your love.

Give us some love judge.
 
How was a camera in space capture a plate number? Do cars in England have plates mounted on the roof?

And if it would track by GPS, would a ID number be sent. Also, whats to stop people from speeding with older cars? Would a GPS be required? Maybe built into the license plate.
 
"Its main use would be for enforcing speeds on heavily congested roadways"

If is really heavily congested, can people still speed up?
Unless they are giving people ticket for driving "too slow"..😉

hehe
 
license plate hood?

Other note: I think I will not install a plate flipper or something to that degree. I am totally not sarcastic. lie. lie.
 
i wonder what are those duties they plan to put the street officers on? this is pure laziness on the police department...maybe they can all have meetings at the doughnut store...wtf?
 
[citation][nom]darkguset[/nom]But they do not know or can't prove what happened in between. What if somebody was abducted by a UFO and reappeared at the other end of the gate in less than usual time? What if a meteorological phenomenon occurred that bent space and time and made your car reappear on the other end in 2 seconds? Why should you get a ticket for that? And how accurate are their clocks in the first place? Like speed cameras they need to have good maintenance records, otherwise you can dispute that as well.[/citation]
Remember, time is relative. 😀
 
[citation][nom]Bert R[/nom]So long to the "airplane enforced" highways. Always with the outsourcing![/citation]
Absolute classic lol!
 
good thing I live in the USA. unlike most every other country, I'm not living in a large jail and big brother isn't watching every little step. sure no country is 100% free but it is the closest to it. i sure am glad I never had to live in the UK, just one other reason why to add to the list.
 
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