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Citizen uses OpenCV to track speeders near his home

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Re: Citizen uses OpenCV to track speeders near his home

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Post by SixSigma »

pc86 wrote: post #6

> At 4:27 p.m. last Wednesday, the system caught a Route 11 city bus doing 34 mph. Which isn't even fast enough to get a ticket from local police. In my state (which is not Virginia, and it will vary everywhere), local police are prohibited from using radar and need to use an actual stopwatch to track your speed. Obviously very error prone, and they're supposed to basically give you 10 mph leeway - meaning on that ro…

10 MPH ?

That's ridiculous, elsewhere it is 10% because that is the legal requirement of the speedometer

Re: Citizen uses OpenCV to track speeders near his home

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Post by pc86 »

SixSigma wrote: post #11
pc86 wrote: post #6

> At 4:27 p.m. last Wednesday, the system caught a Route 11 city bus doing 34 mph. Which isn't even fast enough to get a ticket from local police. In my state (which is not Virginia, and it will vary everywhere), local police are prohibited from using radar and need to use an actual stopwatch to track your speed. Obviously very error prone, and they're supposed to basically give you 10 mph leeway - meaning on that ro…

10 MPH ? That's ridiculous, elsewhere it is 10% because that is the legal requirement of the speedometer

You're also relying on the reflexes of someone who is sitting in their car literally watching traffic for hours at a time.

The state police can use radar so the floor goes down to 6 over the limit if they are enforcing.

Re: Citizen uses OpenCV to track speeders near his home

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Post by mikepurvis »

Spooky23 wrote: post #4

Welcome to the age of nitpicking busybodies. Next month, he'll have a facial recognition system for dog walkers who fail to curb their dog.

Speeding—especially on residential streets—causes real injury and death. I think it's great for citizens to use inexpensive technology like this to put pressure on their local authorities for better street design and proper enforcement.

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Post by acdha »

Spooky23 wrote: post #4

Welcome to the age of nitpicking busybodies. Next month, he'll have a facial recognition system for dog walkers who fail to curb their dog.

The term busybody normally refers to someone who's trying to force an opinion into a situation, not actual actual violations of the law and definitely not when the problem came to you without having to seek it out first. Beyond the different seriousness of the two things you're conflating – did you notice the bit about him doing this after a kid was hit? – both of those are actually illegal and endanger other people.

Re: Citizen uses OpenCV to track speeders near his home

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Post by dc_new »

pc86 wrote: post #6

> At 4:27 p.m. last Wednesday, the system caught a Route 11 city bus doing 34 mph. Which isn't even fast enough to get a ticket from local police. In my state (which is not Virginia, and it will vary everywhere), local police are prohibited from using radar and need to use an actual stopwatch to track your speed. Obviously very error prone, and they're supposed to basically give you 10 mph leeway - meaning on that ro…

I live in Va, just not that part, and the rule of thumb is anything less then 10mph over and you generally won't get a ticket. The only exception to this is places like school zones.
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