Say Cheese, The Photo Radar Might Be Taking Your Picture!
The way cops hand out speeding tickets has its limits
. A police officer can pull over only one car at a time. As far as the governments view this is too expensive and slow.
With the rapid development of technology, clever ways have been developed to make the process speedier.
So the government in its great 'wisdom' decided it wasn't collecting enough money with the old system.
There were just too many elements that was involved with an actual police officer pulling you over to hand out a citation. The first thing was having to hire the officer himself to pull you over. Next he had to pull you over with his police vehicle which is expensive in itself. And then what he let you off with just a warning?
Lastly, during the time it takes to administer a traffic stop about a dozen other cars go by speeding... more money down the drain! But that was then, this is now!
So the photo radar was introduced to take handing out tickets to a whole new level. They can do the job of many officers.
Talk about customer service, there's no longer a need to have an officer pull you over. A photo radar, or traffic camera, simply takes a picture and mails it to you!
Since it was deployed photo radar has increased revenue for municipalities that employ it, maximized enforcement resources for other duties, and increased conviction rates in traffic court. Also drivers insurance rates went up.
The age of photo radar is still in its infancy. To date, there are only 20 or so states that employ this method of speed detection - California, Colorado, Arizona, Ohio and Washington to name a few.
The photo radar is such a money maker that its popularity is growing fast.
Cities are starting to latch on to the photo radar band wagon because of the revenue generating potential. Its relatively simple for a city to have one installed and the photo radar pays for itself quickly.
In areas that are financially strapped, photo radar gives them an immediate answer to their money misery.
Think about it: Within minutes, photo radar can clock dozens of speeding vehicles -- something that would have taken about 10 real cops to accomplish with traditional speed enforcement!
How does it work? Photo radar, as the name suggests, is a combination of a camera coupled with a radar gun. The two work together. The radar gun is preprogrammed to function at a particular speed.
Say the speeding limit is 55 mph on a stretch of road but it detects a car cruising at 60 mph it will take a picture.
So when the photo radar unit detects a car passing it at a speed over the predetermined speed it will take a picture of your plate. This picture is stored and the process keeps going on 24/7. Courtesy of big brother, bundreds of drivers can be ticketed this way.
When the database of the photo radar is accessed at a later time, they photos will be examined inaccurancies.
The first thing they will look for is the license plate. If it is blurry or simply unclear, the picture will be disposed of and the next one will be examined.
Once a legible license plate is found, the examiner will then look up the license plate number with the bureau of motor vehicles. The BMV will send back the name and address of the person the car is registered to. If the name comes back as a male, the examiner will then look to see if a male is sitting behind the wheel of the car. If there is, BINGO! The examiner will then send the registered owner of the car a speeding ticket in the mail.
This process is repeated until all the pictures from the photo radar have been gone through, until the next batch arrives. Photo radar enforcement is on the rise, hopefully this article will give you a heads up about it.
by: Steven Swihart
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