I was driving the other day and noticed a flash on the other side of the road, the flash went off towards the drivers side door not the front or rear of the car would this have been a speed camera and would it have got me. I believe I wasn’t speeding.
How long does it take for a fine to turn up in the mail if caught.

Ok so I know there’s laws saying police can not generally use technology that’s not readily available to the public. For example police were using helicopters with heat detecting cameras to find grow operations very easily. The courts said this was illegal because the technology was to advanced and not available to the public. Well the public can’t buy speed cameras and I can’t understand using them for surveillance but to actually use them to enforce speeding tickets seems like it falls into the same category as the heat seeking Equipment… could someone please explain the justification for this?
I can understand using them for surveillance purposes but to use them as the sole purpose to enforce a traffic ticket it how is this available to the public?
No, the use of thermal imaging to find grow operations in general is not legal… the technology is not readily available to the public… I got the case brief where the courts decided this.
Tenth Circuit Says Thermal Imaging Is a Search, Contrary to Other Circuits,"

So they would need a warrant to conduct a search.
I guess the logic is that if your using technology thats not readily available to the public you need a warrant. The public doesn’t have speed cameras why wouldn’t they need a warrant to use a camera as a sole basis to formally charge someone.

The Casio Exilim Pro EX-F1 can take high speed pictures up to 60 Frames Per Second in a 6 megapixels photo. I want to see who else is competing in that market.

I pass a work zone every day and there is a speed camera by the highway. I always drive at the speed limit because I know about the speed camera and also because I am a highway worker myself. This morning, I was in the middle lane and I saw in my rear view mirror that two cars in the left lane were flying down and they triggered the camera. I saw two flashes in the rear view mirror.

Would I be in the photos too? Would I be mistaken as also speeding?

Thanks.

If you don’t break the speed limit then they’re not a problem so the only people who get angry about them are the ones who regularly break the law.

I mean those freeway signst that tell you how many miles left until the next exit. You could put a device that measures how long it takes for a car to get from one sign to the next and then calculate speed. If the car is speeding, the camera can take a picture of the rear license plate as it zooms by and the mail the ticket to the driver.

If there’s a speed camera in a 30mph zone, what is the absolute maximum speed a motorist can travel before they receive a speeding fine via the camera?

There’s two possible views on this:
Making the speed camera highly visible to alert the motorist, giving them many advanced warnings so they slowdown and not get caught or;

Hiding it, not giving the motorist any warnings so they get caught.

My views are they should hide it; there’s a speed limit and a law there anyway. A speed camera shouldn’t reinforce this. They should have been sticking to the speed limit anyway and not let the speed camera tell them.

Do speed cameras make the roads safer ~or~ the city more money?

I really want to hear from law enforcement.

Do they either
a) know how far apart they are from each other and time you to get between them
or
b) measure your speed at different points and find the mean??

When i drive around town , i am familiar with the roads so do not want the navigator voice. yet i still want to be warned of cameras. Anyway to achieve this ?

i was just wondering, how can you face your own accuser when your accuser is a speed camera or red light camera? isnt that unconstitutional if you can’t exersise your right to face your accuser?

I got hit with a speed camera late last night and I was hoping that there was some odd chance that they couldn’t make out my license plates, is this possible? If not what’s a good way to get out of this?

I live in Iowa. My city has recently added those lovely speed cameras. I fear that I may be getting a few in the mail. Is there a way to see if there’s a ticket on its way to me? Do the tickets go on my record, in that they affect my insurance rates? Are they mailed out for even minor violations, say under 5 mph over?

I have counted 12 cameras on that stretch of the road (about 60 miles). Does anybody know why is there so many cameras.