Posted: 8/27/2006 2:40:42 PM EDT
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The thread about red-light-runner cameras ticketing city employees made me wonder about this. This may vary from state to state, and certainly from city to city, but WTF are there cameras (NOT red-light-running cameras) at every damned intersection? Above each direction of travel, both ways, all four sides. And usually one underneath the traffic light post that is a rotational camera. WTF are all the cameras for?????????? ETA: I call BS for 'traffic accidents'. Plenty of people have cell phones. I don't buy that reason. |
That is what the Gubmint wants you to think...........runs out ot buy more tinfoil.
No, he is talking about cameras. |
No he's probably talking about the opticon system,which look kind of like cameras, there really aren't all that many cameras in most areas. I'm for the cameras to eliminate more of the idiots on the road. I just came home and some bozo ran a red light right in front of me. The police car sitting next to me, took it from there. |
So does this mean you want to eliminate all patrol units. After all they might see what you do and you don't get to know where they are all the time. That's even more unfair??? |
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The tiny little cameras are low-rez traffic control cameras. Instead of induction sensors under the pavement, they use cameras to detect the presence of cars, so the traffic lights know when to change. You may notice that sometimes that a light won't turn yellow until the last car in a stack gets through the intersection, and that it will extend the yellow for a while. That's the traffic control software using the camera input to adjust the lights. This is different from the Opticom system, which uses strobes on emergency vehicles to force the system to switch to green, allowing the emergency vehicles a clear path. -Troy |
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I have a problem with them. For at least 10 years now, software has been available to police depts and god knows who else that will log/process over 3,000 license plates per hour. That's a little too Orwellian for me. That, and you don't need cameras facing right at the windshield of every side of an intersection to control traffic. Nor, do you need a "traffic" camera that points right at the POL (petrolium, oil, and lubricants, aka gas, diesel and jet fuel) tank farm just outside Detroit Metro Airport along I94. If they aren't being abused yet, they will. |