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It's interesting that no one on a tech board mentioned that a drone can now do this 24 hours a day, for basically free, and it would take a very short time to w

It's interesting that no one on a tech board mentioned that a drone can now do this 24 hours a day, for basically free, and it would take a very short time to write an AI that watches an object crossing two markers on the road and puts time stamps on them. I am actually glad this isn't there, even though I don't speed, but it's ironic to see people talking about cost. Example articles below. There are at least 10s of systems that can do this from different cheap airborne carriers and watch a huge swath of land (36 square miles from one host), track movement, and record it all at high resolution 24/7: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARGUS-IS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARGUS-IS

bradknowles 4y ago
Many years ago, there was a court case here in the US over a fine for excessive average speed over a distance. In the end, the case was decided on behalf of the driver, because the police couldn't prove that the car had not been picked up by a helicopter and moved at high speed through the air, and then put back down on the ground near the other end. I think some laws are going to have to be passed here in the US to make it feasible to use average speed systems. Which I think is actually a good thing. IMO, the police, or whatever system is issuing tickets, should have a minimum necessary amount of information they can prove in court, before they can issue those kinds of tickets.