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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: DFT wants to ban radar detectors |
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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 11:33
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| Must be this: From http://www.australianradar.com.au/news.htm (about half way down the page) A superheterodyne receiver coverts RF (radio frequency) signals (radar transmit frequency) to an intermediate frequency (IF) by mixing the RF signal with the LO signal; the intermediate frequency equals LO f... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: DFT wants to ban radar detectors |
| geojeh |
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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 05:34
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| So taking things literally, what we are being told is: 1. Cameras are installed at so called blackspots where there have been unusually high accident rates caused by speeding. 2. The cameras are painted bright yellow so everyone will see them and know to slow down and drive carefully because it's a ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Speeding epidemic in the Midlands . . . |
| geojeh |
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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 12:47
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| There's something wrong with their figures though: the M6Toll is 43kms long not 43 miles OK the survey is done between two points on the M6 either side of the Toll so it's 27 miles of Toll and 16 miles of ordinary M6. So yes, the average speed on the Toll itself would be higher than 75mph. The full... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Speeding epidemic in the Midlands . . . |
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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 05:26
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| ... but no mention of a crash epidemic :roll: extracted from the Guardian (of course) http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1255485,00.html But its operator, Midland Expressway, has angered hauliers by charging high prices for lorries. The road is notorious in the Midlands for its scant enf... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Recessions save lives? |
| geojeh |
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Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 07:56
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Perhaps in periods of economic growth traffic increases faster than new
roads and bypasses can be built to cope with it, leading to localised spots
of severe congestion - heavy traffic forced onto unsuitable roads,
frustration, delay ... accidents. |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Another myth exposed? |
| geojeh |
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Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 05:40
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| Not safety related but, if true, another blow for the motoring-always-bad ideology. Isn't Begg is a proponent of the twenty odd billion pound London-Edinburgh rail link? Link to the telegraph here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/06/21/ncar21.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/06/21... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Speed cameras 'save 100 lives a year' |
| geojeh |
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Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 04:12
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| Does this government really believe people are so stupid. Apparantly so. It certainly takes some nerve to present a one off step reduction of 100 fatalities after ten years of camera-based enforcement as an amazing success. We used to see more improvement than that year-on-year before cameras came ... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Telegraph: More people killed at many speed camera sites |
| geojeh |
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Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 02:26
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| More people killed at many speed camera sites By Paul Marston, Transport Correspondent (Filed: 16/06/2004) About a quarter of speed cameras have made no effective contribution to road safety, according to official figures released by the Department for Transport yesterday. The first detailed analys... |
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Forum: Safe Speed in the News and Media Topic: BBC News Website 15th June 2004 |
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Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 10:46
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speedo checks and grasshopper attention |
| geojeh |
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Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 02:34
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| Interesting points. On safe roads like motorways there is plenty of scope for checking the the speedo and it's easy to maintain a steady pace. Yet this is also the safest place to exceed the limit. On dangerous roads, such as a twisty village centre full of blind corners, it is essential to choose a... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Motion Blindness |
| geojeh |
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Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 07:50
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| Bizzare! Maybe to do with it being easier to spot movement than stationary detail. Sort of like when you lose track of your mouse cursor on the computer screen; wiggle the mouse and it jumps right out. Probably we evolved this way to hunt and avoid being hunted. If so, it could be a good thing for r... |
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Forum: Polls Topic: 2003 Fatalities |
| geojeh |
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Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 08:32
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Replies: 12
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| Thanks PeterE, I'll try not to be too cynical then. Looking at Paul's spreadsheet there seem to be roughly 1-2 fatalities per county per week. Each presumably requires a police investigation and results in some sort of computerised record, so I'd have thought provisional figures were readily availab... |
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Forum: Polls Topic: 2003 Fatalities |
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Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 04:18
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| Anyone know why it takes so long for these figures to come out? You would think they'd have a pretty good idea on Jan 1st, give or take a few hospitalised cases who might die later. The obvious answer is that the picture is bad, and requires all the statistical massage skills the authorities can mus... |
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Forum: Pages Topic: Yet Another Problem |
| geojeh |
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Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 02:27
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| On the question of learning to look further ahead, perhaps it is related to geometry and the rate at which our visual system can acquire a stable image. If one looks sideways out of a car or train window, close objects appear blurred because they whizz across ones field of view too quickly for the e... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: BBC: Tories to target uninsured drivers |
| geojeh |
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Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 03:41
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Replies: 1
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