Re: Speed cameras coming to CA? Yes, if this bill p*****!

On 3/8/2008 10:08 AM Scott in SoCal spake thus:

> On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:52:08 -0800, David Nebenzahl
> <nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>>On 3/5/2008 1:45 AM Graham Harrison spake thus:
>>
>>> "Ed" <editor@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
>>>
news:b5912483-1fb1-43bd-b41e-13799c3fa19f@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> California Senate Bill 1325 was introduced on Feb. 20 and if it
p*****
>>>> will allow SPEED camera tickets - also known as photo radar tickets -
>>>> to be mailed to you.   The bill could also allow stop sign camera
>>>> tickets.
>>>>
>>>> The first hearing on this bill will be this month (March), by
>>>> the Senate Trans****tation Committee in Sacramento.
>>> 
>>> Would you please explain why you are opposed to these cameras? 
>>
>>Yes; why do you *assume* that everyone's opposed to them? I'm not.
>>
>>You speed, you lose.
> 
> One very good reason to oppose them is because they may not always be
> accurate. Check out this radar speed sign in my neighborhood that was
> wigging out a while back:
> 
> http://blip.tv/file/611844
> 
> If a malfunctioning speed camera nails you, good luck proving your
> innocence. Even if you don't speed, you still lose.

So what's the difference between that and the possibility that a radar 
gun wielded by a human might be similarly inaccurate? I'm sure the 
courts are aware of the technological limitations here.