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 …
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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 ›