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I feel that In my opinion that it is balanced and fair the first check when I form the opinion of speed and to see the exact speed, second one if they realise that I am there and they can loose enough speed to get them below the prosecution limit set then I have done my job, If not then I am still doing my job by ticketing them. No doubt I will be wrong with this as well.
Stephen

Has anyone ever used a GPS device to successfully discredit a 20:20?

What's happened with it all?

why has it all gone so quiet?

Monday, September 18, 2006
Houston Thwarts Red Light Camera Challenge

An attempt by Houston, Texas resident Michael Kubosh to challenge the city's red light camera system was thwarted yesterday by local police. Kubosh can only take the city to court if he is mailed a red light camera citation, so he announced his intention to run the light at Milam and Elgin streets at a time when the streets were empty. A squad car, however, was waiting off to the side. Instead of a flash from the red light camera -- which some suggest may have been turned off -- he was stopped by a live Houston Police Department (HPD) officer. "It shows the length they will try to go to to protect this money-making scheme," Kubosh said moments before his attempt. "This is big money. It is the classic example of David and Goliath. " Kubosh stated a number of legal objections to the use of automated ticketing machines that are planned for fifty intersections. "Over half the time somebody gets a ticket, it's someone else driving the car," he said. "It's wrong. The Texas House of Representatives in the last four sessions has voted overwhelmingly against red light camera bills, and yet the city has gone ahead on its own and installed this red light camera system here." Now Michael Kubosh plans to run another light -- with family members guarding the intersection to make sure there is no possibility of a collision -- without letting HPD know. Kubosh will be represented in court by his brother Paul, an attorney. "The city has been hoodwinked by vendors into another money grab scheme," Michael Kubosh said.

How can it be done.

People are prosecuted every day where with a bit of effort they could use a 'slip effect defence' how come nobody has proved the reasonable doubt?

( Time for me to go in a dark corner to calm down)

I am seeing double now!

To answer a few points raised by yourselves,
1. I check by getting a police vehicle to run through the laser at 30mph
2. I make sure that there is only one vehicle coming towards me and none going away and register its speed, then continually make checks on its approach and you can either see its speed increase or decrease.
3. I then move my scope away from the number plate and try to lock on the vehicle in different places, which it doesn't, after a while it gives an error reading.
4. I make sure that I get the three error readings of E1,E2 and E3.
After all this including the laser alignment check I am happy that it is working and no slip error is in my mind.
Stephen

Stephen

4. I make sure that I get the three error readings of E1,E2 and E3.

dont you just hate it though when you get an E53 error