Front Plates Report

Please pardon me if this was already posted.... but well worth
a read if you haven't read it yet.

Front Plates report for your reading pleasure:
http://members.iinet.net.au/~bjbm/gvulysses/frontplates.pdf

In summary:
* Front bracket sticker
* Gonna cost 13.4 million + 1 mill per year after that
* People are puzzled as to why everyone else in the world can enforce
law without
front plates
* Motorcycle manufacturers aren't going to cater for the Vic
government alone

 

Errkk

Looks like they intend to go ahead with it?

Cheers

-------------
Kevin Gleeson
Technical Director
Blue Rocket Productions
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
www.blue-rocket.com.au

 

But how???
They recognise the difficulty in implementing the system yet in the report
recommend a trial.
The return on the investment of the $14 million plus to implement the scheme
is minimal in the extreme.

Typical bullshitif if you ask me...

cheers

col

 

Dated April, 2002. Buggered if I can be arsed reading through 107 pages of
the shit, but this looks like the report they would've compiled as
the_ouverture_to the cirle-jerk "research" process the Vics' $50 rego
surcharge is paying for...

....I still reckon all this is just a bonsai version of the scams perpetrated
on Reagan's administration in the 80's; back then, supposed academics and
engineers approached a government with a hard-on for sci-fi weaponry and
said, "give us $30 billion dollars and we'll devise for you an orbital
particle-beam cannon for you to shoot Russians with.". Now, they're nuzzling
up to a government fixated on making supposed public safety measures a
profitable venture and cooing, "For only $30 million, we can close off the
last loophole in your grand vision of camera-enforced compliance."

Forget for a second that the project has no chance of success, whichever way
it turns out, the charlatan techies win.

Somebody with a different set of priorities comes to power and cuts the
purse-strings, the research team, even if they were stupid enough not to
squirrel away massive proportions of their funding, they still get to ride
the escalator up to the top of their industry courtesy of the "administered
$30 million/year gov't project" on their resume. If asked about why they're
not administering it any longer, it's a shrug and a "Oh, our funding got
cut", to be met by a knowing sigh from the guy on the other side of the
desk.

Alternately, they can just go back to whoever they convinced to commission
their work, shrug, and say, "Nah, sorry. It can't be done with the present
technology/levels of funding".

I still challenge anyone to point to spot on my bike's nose that will
accomodate a number plate.

 

Well they are talking about stickers, not plates.

I still think it is all bollocks too ... they've obviously spent quite
a bit on the research already though.

I didn't read it all, read some bits in full and scanned through
others.

What the hell has happened to Victoria in the last few years? Talk
about the police state, and I though NSW used to be that. Did this
ramp up with Bracks or was it already moving before that?

Cheers



-------------
Kevin Gleeson
Technical Director
Blue Rocket Productions
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
www.blue-rocket.com.au

 

Ditto a sticker.

Enough to warrant the hapless government to have to slug all riders an extra
$50 to pay for it.

Get back to work, Gleeson!

I think it might've actually had its roots with a bloke by the name of
Nebuchadnezzar... "Oh, looky here, a new technological doobie-whatsit.
Wonder how_this_can be implemented to exert greater control over the
rabble". In the days of the extravagantly-bearded Sumerian dude, said doobie
would've been the whip. These days, it's CCD cameras plugged into a computer
network...

 

Actually that money isn't paying for anything. They started collecting it in
Oct 2002 but AFAIK none of those funds have been spent. This report predates
the announcement of the $50 levy.

Nev..
'03 ZX12R
'02 CBR1100XX

 

:-Þ

I am - I can't help it if computers take 3-4 minutes to render a
frame: push render, read newsgroups and industry forums, check render
result, make change, push render, read newsgroups and industry forums,
check render result .... etc etc

Cheers


-------------
Kevin Gleeson
Technical Director
Blue Rocket Productions
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
www.blue-rocket.com.au

 

That works because your name ends in "-son", so you can sneer it in a full
Mr Burns-voice...

Fak me dead, what are you rendering?!? My home machine with its
internal-combustion processor (it's a two-stroke; piston at BDC is binary
zero, TDC is binary one) takes 3-4 minutes to render a frame with a moderate
amount of antialiasing and effects dialled in...

(as I expounded at length to young Dane over the course of the GP weekend,
part of me's still spewing I was unable to find work as a 3D animator after
uni...)

 

Well fak, you can do mine. I've been trying to do a 3D animation of 2 gears
at 1:2, a chain and a single OHC. I've spent a week on it and it looks like
complete shite. (The fact that I have NO idea what I'm doing and can't
remember my HSC maths doesn't help).

Manning

 

Well, shit, dude. You've got my email address. Pass on the specs.

 

Actually it's a Dual 2Gig Xeon with 2 Gig RAM And some frames are
taking up to 12-13 minutes. Average seems to be about 5 minutes
though.

It's 3DS Max 5.1 but the killer in the scenes are the it is using a
renderer called Illustrate! that gives us a 2D cartoon look from 3D
models. It's a bloody good little package but it blows out render
times by miles. Calculating all the line edges and shades across
surfaces after it has done the 3D part, I'm not surprised though. I've
got 13 machines all PIV 2 Gig or better and it can take 2 days to get
through some scenes ....

Cheers



-------------
Kevin Gleeson
Technical Director
Blue Rocket Productions
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
www.blue-rocket.com.au

 

As feasibility studies go, this one says, stick on number plates are the best
option to cover all motorcycles if you want to do that. It also says, the
motorcycle industry, and the motorcycling public at large will be
uncooperative and against you the whole way and you will be pushing shit
uphill to implement it effectively because you'll have to do it all on your
own.

Economically, according to the figures quoted, it's a giant black whole which
will cost the government upwards of $940,000 per annum to maintain, in
addition to the $13.8 million initially required to implement it, with
anticipated increased speeding fine revenue of less than $500,000 per annum.

The authors of the report even go so far as to state that the publicity
generated by police and government regarding the lack of frontal
identification of motorbikes has increased awareness amongst motorcyclists
that they are unidentifiable to front facing speed cameras... hinting that the
government itself is partly responsible for the increased road toll.

Nev..
'03 ZX12R
'02 CBR1100XX

 

:

**black hole**

Nev..
'03 ZX12R
'02 CBR1100XX

 

[sits in open-mouth awe]
IK actually referenced Nebuchadnezzar and Sumeria in a discussion about numberplates!

 

And the photo will be on the front of the Age/Herald and all public support will immediately evaporate!

-- Clem
[cynicism is all tool rampart]

 

Where?

 

It's 3DS Max 5.1 but the killer in the scenes are the it is using a

for the non TV people.......it's broadcast quality stuff.

Hey Kev, you should see the new OB trailer in the garage!!!!! far canal!

 

You sound surprised! Oh ye of little faith.

 

it's a giant black whole which will cost the government upwards of $940,000 per annum to maintain,

they will make that a 1/4 with speeding fines etc etc etc....