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Originally Posted by Jules76
The only digital speed cameras I know of are the one's coming to QLD as reported not long ago in the Courier Mail. Apparently they are going to be more accurate therefore they are looking to lower the speed tolerance level which will result in catching more drivers. Apparently it's only 3km over the limit in Vic?
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/s...90-952,00.html
As a side note, take notice of the small article just below it about Speedos. Funny thing is, this article came out just days after I was pulled over by a Policeman who claimed I was doing 80km/h in a 60km/h zone which was totally false. I'm always careful to watch my speedo and as I told the cop, it was definately reading 60 (which was backed up by my workmate who was in the car at the time), and it just happened I looked at it moments before I even saw him in my rear vision mirror.
Of course he had no proof, flimsy evidence at best. His assumption I was speeding was based on him coming from a stop start off a side road and having to speed up from at least 200m away (according to my workmate). Well of course he had to go 80+ to catch me 200m away going 60. 
Anyway to cut a long story short, he blamed my speedo being out. Yeah sure, a 4 year old car's speedo is out by 20km/h.  |
No vehicle manufacturer will guarantee their speedo accuracy better than 10%. + different tire diameters will also throw the accuracy out.
So really, dropping the "tollerance" to 3 or less klm/hr will only clog up the courts with people contesting their fines.
I drive a 2007 Honda Legend. I know for a fact that the speedo reads 10klm/hr faster than I am actually moving when travelling at 100klm/hr.
So I should NEVER be booked for speeding.
My partner is a sales rep on the road all day every day (in the Honda). She NEVER speeds as losing her licence would be losing her job.
The other day she got a ticket for doing 90 in a 70 zone. That means that the speedo would have to be reading 100klm/hr. There is no way she would have been doing 100 in a 70 zone.
She may possibly have had a lapse of cencentration, but I doubt it.
Buggered if I know how the coppers can get away it.........