Posted on 06/23/2011 8:44:33 AM PDT by kidd
Gov. Nikki Haley has signed into law a bill designed to stop a South Carolina town from using a traffic camera to send speeders a ticket in the mail.
The law bars towns from mailing traffic tickets. It requires officers to hand-deliver them along the roadside.
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I wonder if we could get this idea to fly in Tennessee.
this will certainly push her many rungs up the ladder in the national political spotlight
WOOOOO HOOOOO!
Maryland too. I got snagged by one in a “school zone.”
Good.
ping! and Congratulations! Wish we had this in Maryland....
Wow, the way to go. There will never be a driver that either by accident or willfully speed. Is it the intention of Government to make all it’s citizens a violator? You bet it is!
I don’t know...SC Republican voters have leaned away from statism for quite some time, but until recently there was a huge infestation of elected statist RINOS. The purge had been brewing for some time, but came to fruition in ‘10.
In TN, I don’t know what the voters think about it, but it seems that statist RINOS are the norm for elected Republicans. There was recently a purge against Dems, but not yet to clear out quislings from the ranks of the Republicans. IMHO, that will need to happen first, before any legislation actually limiting the power of the government is passed.
That’s an outsider’s opinion, but an informed outsider, since I’ve split my time between NY and SC for several years now and will finally make it official and abandon NY for SC next month.
"roughly 10,000 tickets were mailed in nine months."
Hmmm. Are 'Rats involved in spreading the wealth around ?
Yep.
"Democratic Elected Officials
Auditor Hazel Holmes P.O. Box 807 Ridgeland, SC 29936 WORK: 843-726-7732 EMAIL: holmesh@hargray.com
Clerk of Court Margaret Bostick PO Box 248 Ridgeland, SC 29936 WORK: 843-726-7781
Coroner Martin Sauls PO Box 83 Ridgeland, SC 29936 WORK: 843-726-5535
County Council
Leroy Blackshear-Hardeeville Township PO Box 401 Hardeeville, SC 29927 WORK: 843-509-7496
Henry Etheridge-Pocataligo Township< PO Box 1677 Ridgeland, SC 29936 HOME: 843-726-4903
Samuel Gregory-At Large Member 103 Tutens Landing Rd. Ridgeland, SC 29936 CELL: 843-592-1106
Linious Sauls-Coosawhatchie Township PO Box 1417 Ridgeland, SC 29936 HOME: 843-726-8861
Theodus Drayton-Robertville Township 4324 Tillman Rd. Ridgeland, SC 29936 HOME: 843-726-3339"
Want a real scare. GPS. Every GPS is usually registered with the company. New GPS has a feature that will show speed limits of various streets. If you speed the indicator turns red. Here is the rub. Suppose the government requires the GPS companies to hand them the owner registration of the GPS. And suppose new software will record your speed if red. How about that. Possible to issue tickets? I would probably get at least 10 tickets a day.
The only setback I see to that is the first ticket I get using that GPS product, I toss it out the window and never get another one. They would be cutting their own throat.
Nice. Red light cameras are popping up everywhere in Virginia. If I let someone borrow my truck and they go through a light, I get a ticket in the mail and the negative points on my record.
So -— Don’t loan your truck to people who may get at ticket.
Problem solved.
>>New GPS has a feature that will show speed limits of various streets. If you speed the indicator turns red. Here is the rub. Suppose the government requires the GPS companies to hand them the owner registration of the GPS. And suppose new software will record your speed if red. How about that. Possible to issue tickets?
IIRC, a few years ago, several rental car companies were doing that and tacking on extra charges when the GPS logged you as speeding.
For the sake of argument, let us say their motive is pure, they are only doing this for safety.
They will get addicted to this “new money” and if the threat of tickets and fines actually causes people to obey the speed limit, and the number of tickets declines, I can, with 100% certainty guarantee that the next step will be to lower the speed limit (so they can continue writing tickets).
It is not about safety. It is about money.
Governments, all governments, have grown too large. Their need to find new sources of revenue has also grown. They need to cut back to the basic services.
Get out of the social engineering business and the local taxes will pay for the required government.
GPS is inaccurate when measuring speed. It fluctuates with trees, buildings, and environmental conditions. It relies on data that is only accurate within about 500 meters in some places.
Don’t believe me? Install a running track app and go for a jog. You can be at a steady 10:00 mile pace and one second, the app says 15:00 pace and the next might say you are running a 3:00 pace, which isn’t even possible. In the end, it all averages out to be pretty close, depending on the accuracy of the data points, but a single plot is not reliable. Not even the most liberal courts would allow GPS based sppeding tickets as evidence.
Well the result of that solution is that the nanny state has successfully taken away another liberty I can take with my own property. I’d rather just ban the redlight camera so if a neighbor wants to borrow the truck and pick up some mulch, I can have the peace of mind to give him the keys.
Forget GPS. OBDIII BROADCASTS your speed a short distance. There was an experiment in some state (I think it was Illinois or Indiana) where they figured a sensor next to the highway could track 8 lanes of traffic going by. For every car with ODBIII or later, it would receive a signal telling them, among other things, your speed, vin number, whether your seatbelts are fastened and whether your check engine light is on. There was talk of sending people tickets for all of those things, when in violation of the law (the latter being an “environmental pollution” ticket).
Hate those things. Now that I’m older, I try not to speed much anymore, especially in areas I know to be heavily copulated with stealth cars or copcyles. However, no matter how careful I try to be, there are always times that I am watching the road more carefully than the speedometer (which is how it should be). On straight open highwaays with light traffic, I will always drift up to 85 or 90 depending on how smooth the rental car is if I do not watch the speedometer. It is evil once I catch myself and slow down to 70/75 because it then feels like I’m creeping along at 20.
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