"Just JT" <JohnnyThor@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:4823e7c8$0$25088$9a6e19ea@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> If speed cameras are all about revenue, why are people who excessively
> speed GET SUSPENDED from driving?
That's not the issue.
People who exceed the speed limit to the point of having their licences
suspended are *not* the issue. The issue is the minor offenders, and by
minor I'm talking about people who are over the speed limit by under
10km/h.
Up until very recently it was *legal* for a car sold in Australia to have
a
+/- error margin on it's speedometer of 10%, and that means an actual
speed
of 66km/h could be indicated as 60km/h on a speedometer that is considered
to be functioning normally and in accordance of the ADR's at the time it
was
made. However, that would also be a speed that would see you booked in
Victoria as it's over the trigger margin of speed cameras down here.
In other words, *thousands* of Victorian motorists have received requests
to
make "voluntary contributions" to the states coffers for travelling at
63km/h in a 60km/h zone (In Victoria, 3km/h is automatically deducted from
the detected speed below 100km/h, and 3% above) under the Victorian state
road rules, while the cars they were driving were legally indicating their
speed within the federally allowed error margin.
It's been going on in Victoria since cameras were first introduced, and it
continues to this day.
The ADR's were changed a couple of years ago so that speedo's were to have
a
+10/-0% error margin, meaning that they could read fast but not slow as
previously was allowed.
No prizes for guessing why that change was made.
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Regards,
Noddy.
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