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Monday, December 31, 2012

Speed Camera Vendor: Timestamps Not Accepted Method to Calculate Speed

Howard County's speed camera vendor said timestamps on photos are not an accurate method for calculating speed.

  Over the past few months, the Baltimore Sun has been cataloguing what may be errors in speed cameras in Baltimore city. Reporters have used time over distance calculations with timestamps on citiation photographs rounded to the thousandth of a second to determine drivers' speed. In Howard County, it's not possible to use timestamp information to determine speed because the timestamps are rounded to the nearest second, which is not precise enough to make a calcualtion, according to the Sun. However, even if it was down to the thousandth of a second, citizens would still not be able to calculate their own speed at the time of the infraction, according to a spokesperson for Xerox State & Local Solutions Inc., Howard County's speed camera …

David Maier

8:51 am on Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Errors, shamerrors. It is not about speed. It is not about safety. It is only about the revenue. To the government, it is FREE MONEY. You cannot cut an addict off their preferred source - the system will protect itself. It will lie, cheat, steal, obfuscate and use any method it can to get what it wants. Only an intervention might help the addict free themselves from their Hy. When it comes to …   more ›

Monday, December 10, 2012

Report: Speed Camera Ticket Accuracy Comes Under Scrutiny

A state delegate wants speeding tickets dismissed in cases where it's unclear the motorist was in violation.

A recent report published by the Baltimore Sun points out an issue with speed cameras in Howard County—citizens who receive a ticket can't check the accuracy of the camera based on the photographs provided. Because Howard County speed cameras round the times each photograph is taken to the nearest second, motorists who receive a ticket are not able to calculate the accuracy of the camera's radar gun based on the distance their vehicle travels between photographs, according to the Sun. In Baltimore County, a state delegate is calling for a state audit and possible reboot of the speed camera program in Maryland. Del. Jon Cardin told Patch Monday he would like judges to throw out tickets when it's not clear that the driver was speeding. He …

Paul Hoffman

1:49 pm on Friday, December 14, 2012

There are 48 million reasons why the city has no interest in reviewing tickets prior to sending them out. After all, if 60% just write a $40. check and send it in, isn't that what the jurisdictions want....just pay it and forget it!   more ›

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