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"MarkČ" mjmorgan(lowest even number wrote in message news:KvVNe.5785$Us5.3948@fed1read02... "Cockpit Colin" wrote in message ... I've checked the accuracy of quite a few speedos - most over-read between 5 and 10%. All the radars in our neck of the woods appear to be spot on. My other thought is that I'm wondering if the traffic display units keep any sort of statistical analysis - so that (for example) "X" % of vehicles are over the limit this fact gets reported, then next week we have the "real thing" there, instead of the placebo'. My understanding it that this is done as you describe in some cases. Often it is brought on my complaining residents who feel their children are at risk, etc. They'll do a "study" of sorts, and then start nailing people until it gains a reputation for police presence. It's fairly efective, so long as they continue to appear for enforcement from time to time. I think they are great in residential neighborhoods.....I am a cat lover, and I hate it when people speed down residential streets at 15 or 20 miles over the speed limit. I don't mind it if they do 80 or better on the freeway, but my cats are poor trusting soles that like to sun themselves on the warm pavement of the road.......... |
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wrote in message ... On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 18:50:21 +1200, "Cockpit Colin" wrote: I've checked the accuracy of quite a few speedos - most over-read between 5 and 10%. All the radars in our neck of the woods appear to be spot on. My other thought is that I'm wondering if the traffic display units keep any sort of statistical analysis - so that (for example) "X" % of vehicles are over the limit this fact gets reported, then next week we have the "real thing" there, instead of the placebo'. That could be a two-edged sword. Some places have a law that, despite a lower posted limit, the limit must be raised if some percentage (about 85%, IIRC) of cars are routinely exceeding the limit. Supposed to prevent setting up speed traps. The last time I checked with my cats, they had trouble understanding the 85% part....... |
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"William Graham" wrote in message ... "MarkČ" mjmorgan(lowest even number wrote in message news:KvVNe.5785$Us5.3948@fed1read02... "Cockpit Colin" wrote in message ... I've checked the accuracy of quite a few speedos - most over-read between 5 and 10%. All the radars in our neck of the woods appear to be spot on. My other thought is that I'm wondering if the traffic display units keep any sort of statistical analysis - so that (for example) "X" % of vehicles are over the limit this fact gets reported, then next week we have the "real thing" there, instead of the placebo'. My understanding it that this is done as you describe in some cases. Often it is brought on my complaining residents who feel their children are at risk, etc. They'll do a "study" of sorts, and then start nailing people until it gains a reputation for police presence. It's fairly efective, so long as they continue to appear for enforcement from time to time. I think they are great in residential neighborhoods.....I am a cat lover, and I hate it when people speed down residential streets at 15 or 20 miles over the speed limit. I don't mind it if they do 80 or better on the freeway, but my cats are poor trusting soles that like to sun themselves on the warm pavement of the road.......... Agree. Didn't mean to imply otherwise... |
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William Graham wrote:
"MarkČ" mjmorgan(lowest even number wrote in message news:KvVNe.5785$Us5.3948@fed1read02... "Cockpit Colin" wrote in message ... I've checked the accuracy of quite a few speedos - most over-read between 5 and 10%. All the radars in our neck of the woods appear to be spot on. My other thought is that I'm wondering if the traffic display units keep any sort of statistical analysis - so that (for example) "X" % of vehicles are over the limit this fact gets reported, then next week we have the "real thing" there, instead of the placebo'. My understanding it that this is done as you describe in some cases. Often it is brought on my complaining residents who feel their children are at risk, etc. They'll do a "study" of sorts, and then start nailing people until it gains a reputation for police presence. It's fairly efective, so long as they continue to appear for enforcement from time to time. I think they are great in residential neighborhoods.....I am a cat lover, and I hate it when people speed down residential streets at 15 or 20 miles over the speed limit. I don't mind it if they do 80 or better on the freeway, but my cats are poor trusting soles that like to sun themselves on the warm pavement of the road.......... Keep your cats inside, or run the risk of them becoming 'flat cats'. It's that simple. -- Ron Hunter |
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"Ron Hunter" wrote in message news William Graham wrote: "MarkČ" mjmorgan(lowest even number wrote in message news:KvVNe.5785$Us5.3948@fed1read02... "Cockpit Colin" wrote in message ... I've checked the accuracy of quite a few speedos - most over-read between 5 and 10%. All the radars in our neck of the woods appear to be spot on. My other thought is that I'm wondering if the traffic display units keep any sort of statistical analysis - so that (for example) "X" % of vehicles are over the limit this fact gets reported, then next week we have the "real thing" there, instead of the placebo'. My understanding it that this is done as you describe in some cases. Often it is brought on my complaining residents who feel their children are at risk, etc. They'll do a "study" of sorts, and then start nailing people until it gains a reputation for police presence. It's fairly efective, so long as they continue to appear for enforcement from time to time. I think they are great in residential neighborhoods.....I am a cat lover, and I hate it when people speed down residential streets at 15 or 20 miles over the speed limit. I don't mind it if they do 80 or better on the freeway, but my cats are poor trusting soles that like to sun themselves on the warm pavement of the road.......... Keep your cats inside, or run the risk of them becoming 'flat cats'. It's that simple. Let them out...and let them be...well...cats! |
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Does this a object make photographs??
Here is the a picture of the object: (sorry, it's small) http://www.oksolar.com/images/Traffic_radar_trailer.jpg I think this is an interesting extension of the "When does a photo become a graphic image" thread. Based on some comments in that other thread, even my camera doesn't take photographs. g Just as a photograph only shows one aspect of a scene, this device represents another aspect of a scene - specifically the a snapshot of the rate of change in spacial orientation of large wheeled objects. I don't think this device takes "photographs", but there must be a higher class from which photos inherit - "time slice image"?? - this device clearly does something similar to what cameras do. -- Mark Photos, Ideas & Opinions http://www.marklauter.com |
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"Ron Hunter" wrote in message news William Graham wrote: "MarkČ" mjmorgan(lowest even number wrote in message news:KvVNe.5785$Us5.3948@fed1read02... "Cockpit Colin" wrote in message ... I've checked the accuracy of quite a few speedos - most over-read between 5 and 10%. All the radars in our neck of the woods appear to be spot on. My other thought is that I'm wondering if the traffic display units keep any sort of statistical analysis - so that (for example) "X" % of vehicles are over the limit this fact gets reported, then next week we have the "real thing" there, instead of the placebo'. My understanding it that this is done as you describe in some cases. Often it is brought on my complaining residents who feel their children are at risk, etc. They'll do a "study" of sorts, and then start nailing people until it gains a reputation for police presence. It's fairly efective, so long as they continue to appear for enforcement from time to time. I think they are great in residential neighborhoods.....I am a cat lover, and I hate it when people speed down residential streets at 15 or 20 miles over the speed limit. I don't mind it if they do 80 or better on the freeway, but my cats are poor trusting soles that like to sun themselves on the warm pavement of the road.......... Keep your cats inside, or run the risk of them becoming 'flat cats'. It's that simple. No, there is another alternative. Stop and arrest anyone going more than ten miles over the speed limit in a residential neighborhood and fine them with so much money that they can't afford to buy gasoline for 6 months. That might slow them down a bit. It's not just cats they may run over. We also have small children in the neighborhood. the speed limit here is 25 MPH. There is a reason for that. The intersections are mostly blind, for one thing. So, stopping and looking, at the stop signs is largely a waste of time. You can't see anything, so how long should you remain stopped? A minute? An hour? Or one second? - It doesn't matter how long, because you can't see when it's clear to go, so why stop at all? - If you don't stop, and someone hits you going 10 miles over the speed limit, he will scream bloody murder that, "The old geezer didn't stop!" But whose fault is it? If you do stop, and then go and get hit, he will scream the same thing, and whose fault is it? I believe it's the fault of the speeder. If he were going 25 MPH, he would have been able to stop in time. That's why the limit is 25. |
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"MarkČ" mjmorgan(lowest even number wrote in message news:Q1hOe.8080$Us5.7353@fed1read02... "Ron Hunter" wrote in message news William Graham wrote: "MarkČ" mjmorgan(lowest even number wrote in message news:KvVNe.5785$Us5.3948@fed1read02... "Cockpit Colin" wrote in message ... I've checked the accuracy of quite a few speedos - most over-read between 5 and 10%. All the radars in our neck of the woods appear to be spot on. My other thought is that I'm wondering if the traffic display units keep any sort of statistical analysis - so that (for example) "X" % of vehicles are over the limit this fact gets reported, then next week we have the "real thing" there, instead of the placebo'. My understanding it that this is done as you describe in some cases. Often it is brought on my complaining residents who feel their children are at risk, etc. They'll do a "study" of sorts, and then start nailing people until it gains a reputation for police presence. It's fairly efective, so long as they continue to appear for enforcement from time to time. I think they are great in residential neighborhoods.....I am a cat lover, and I hate it when people speed down residential streets at 15 or 20 miles over the speed limit. I don't mind it if they do 80 or better on the freeway, but my cats are poor trusting soles that like to sun themselves on the warm pavement of the road.......... Keep your cats inside, or run the risk of them becoming 'flat cats'. It's that simple. Let them out...and let them be...well...cats! Yes....I have never had an, "inside cat". I have never really had a cat. Every cat I have ever "owned" has just wandered in from somewhere else, and liked the cut of my jib, and stayed. They have never belonged to me in the first place. A cat is a truly independent animal. He/she belongs to no one but themselves. But that doesn't mean that I don't become attached to them, and wouldn't care if they get run down. I care. And, when my wife leaves for a week or more to visit her grandkids down in California, the cats worry about her being gone, and look all over the house for her, so I know that they care, too. One of them, "B-K" (I found him in a Burger King parking lot) comes into the bedroom and hops up on my chest and checks up on me to see if I am still alive two or three times a night. He knows that if it wasn't for me, he would still be living on French fries and onion rings and anything else that people threw at him for the first year of his life.....Now, he eats exclusively kibbles, and a bowl of milk that I give him every evening, and he lives outside 95% of the time. |
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Cockpit Colin wrote:
I've checked the accuracy of quite a few speedos - most over-read between 5 and 10%. All the radars in our neck of the woods appear to be spot on. I had my speedometer tested and it was found to be accurate. Most of the roadside radar thingies seem to be accurate (modulo the angle-of-approach error) but there are always a few that seem to read high by 5-10 mph. One assumes that the units in police cars, required to be calibrated regularly, are more consistent. -- Jeremy | |
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