Dr Cameron supports hidden speed cameras in NSW

lobyists what to have hidden cameras in nsw because fixed cameras are
booking less speeders.

the artice compares nsw and vic and states that because vic has hidden
cameras they book more people, but the artice provives no evidence that
hidden camers reduse the road toll.


SMH article here:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/speeding-cameras-hidden-agenda/2007/01/03/1167777155884.html

See Dr cameron and tell him what you think:
http://www.monash.edu.au/muarc/about/staff/cameron.html

Tell the pedestrian council what you think:
http://www.walk.com.au/pedestriancouncil/ContactUs.asp?PageID=120

 

So what was the goal of speed cameras again? Make people slow down, or
seperate them from their cash?
These guys have made it clear that they are only interested in the latter.

 

this is the original press release from the pedestrians with nice graphs.

http://www.walk.com.au/pedestriancouncil/Page.asp?PageID=1969

 

Harold isn't too good in the scientific method department is he.
One glaring observation from Harold's own data is that the mobile cameras
are similar in ratio to the fixed camera, thereby dismissing the
'site-learning' hypothesis. And that the human operated Lidar/Radar results
are skewed. One could conclude that perhaps the human factor is an
unreliable inclusion in reliable speed detection.

I'd also like to see the same results form Victoria to see how they compare.
But I'm guessing that they don't support Harold's argument so have been
purposely omitted.

 

Uncle Bully wrote:

Possibly not, but he still manages to push his own wee barrow quite
well, so he certainly can't be daft.

regards,
CrazyCam

 

Interesting that the statistical trend for the static road cameras and
the police mobile speed cameras are very similar, and that the Lidar
etc present as anomolous. More typically the police setting up hair
dryers where revenue earning is good (and speed restrictions are silly
and/or ambiguos) rather than road risk hot spots?

cheers,

Bill_h

 

A bit like the god botherers. Good at selling to people who don't know any
better.

 

The reason for that would be that the average excessive speed reading on
an in-car radar or hand-held lidar is used to issue anywhere between two
and twenty-five speeing fines spread over anywhere from a couple of
minutes to... how long's a highway patrol copper's shift go for, again?