Consider yourselves lucky.

Here we have cameras that take your photo if you speed, run a red light,
drive in a bus lane, or (for heavy vehicles) drive for too long without a
break...

There's one particular stretch of road, and within 2 km it has 3 fixed speed
cameras. It's a 3 lane each way divided road with a speed limit of 40km/hr
(25mph). Each of the speed cameras is covered by a surveillance camera in
case someone tries to take it out. Some of the other fixed speed cameras
have surveillance cameras covering the surveillance cameras covering the
speed camera!

We're not the worst affected though, another state here has a 3km/hr
(1.8mph) tolerance in their cameras, we have 10% + 4 km/hr. Travelling at
110km/hr on the freeway, our cameras kick in at 125km/hr, the ones in the
other state start tagging people doing 113kmhr...

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Sent: Tuesday, 15 June 2004 1:43 PM
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Subject: Re: [OT]: detecting emergency vehicles


For many years automated traffic lights have been controlled by inductive
loops buried in the street.  Here in Utah I've noticed that most
intersections now have cameras. I thought they were mainly for catching
speeders. My neighor owns an electrical contracting company that installs
most of the stop and go lights in the state. He said that the cameras now
monitor and control the traffic signals. It's all software controlled. He
also said that some community police departments have access to the recorded
video to use if there is an accident at an intersection. He said that due to
state laws here it cannot be used as a photo cop system. The state outlawed
that years ago.

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