The same applies to their Radar equipment.Can be challenged in court!Same provisos!
bjdw,
Dec 24, 10:11pm
If you can't afford petrol you stay home instead of crashing and dying.
romulan7,
Dec 25, 7:56pm
Fail!Before you nut off on how accurate your GPS is check the certification with the packaging also a minor bit of physics involving vertical and horizontal speed especially on hills comes into play. During the first Gulf War the global GPS system (ran by the americans) was offset by a few degrees. So arguing that your GPS said such and such can be challenged.
sr2,
Dec 25, 8:43pm
Could you please explain the calculations that led to that figure! As much as I too dislike our "speed police" I think your maths may be a little off!
hyphen,
Dec 25, 8:45pm
wow! sounds like a LOT of people on here don't know how to drive defensively, don't know what a drone is ( a male bee whose only purpose is to mate with the queen bee), and own nasty little cars which always want to go too fast, and whose drivers are totally blameless when caught breaking the speed limit!
kevymtnz,
Dec 25, 9:16pm
im guessing the ones that shouldnt be on the road cant afford to be traveling yay then again some 51% of all crashed is where drivers leave the road on thier own without involving any other car
bashfulbro,
Dec 26, 3:48am
And if anyone does choose to have it checked at their own expense, you could bet your bottom dollar that, the unit that does get checked is unlikely to be the actual unit that clocked you. It is such a huge revenue gathering gold mine, that all the options are covered, ethical or otherwise.
bashfulbro,
Dec 26, 3:57am
Correct, selective policing is out of hand in NZ, they don`t make laws, andare here to uphold and enforce the laws.not only when it suits.
scotty20001,
Dec 26, 8:25am
so true thats why i have a GPS tracker operating at all times that records video and log.
scotty20001,
Dec 26, 8:27am
its basic math, dead accurate.
scotty20001,
Dec 26, 8:32am
GPS is accurate to with in 3 meters and dead accurate on speed (movement)down to less then a tenth of a kmh, try that with a radar, and also i know for a fact they leave the previous reading on and if they don't like the look of you they will do you for speeding anyway, a speeding ticket has been challenged with GPS and the police lost, this article is going back sometime but it proves that they blatantly lie to get a conviction, http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm!c_id=1&objectid=3596433 it is also time we stop accepting this fabricated radar readings as evidence and ask for video proof from a camera, like what happens in Australia. or a date and time display on the radar at the very least, i my self don't trust the highway patrol as far as i can kick them, bunch of lying bully's most of them, do you know anything about GPS at all!
scotty20001,
Dec 26, 8:39am
and as for the road toll so far, looks like the bullshit 4kmh policy is doing wonders!NOT!
romulan7,
Dec 26, 8:55am
Nope I dont know much about GPS other than a incorrect GPS nearly got me and a few others killed in Kuwait!What kind of dumb question is that as for your next question no I dont own a cr-v but I do/have drive a few vehicles as well as sat in the passenger seat of a few of those evil patrol cars.The accuracy of the more modern "radar" has improved since then.
While you bitchin I have been a victim of these Revenue grabbing radar guns and it was part my fault!Part because I strayed over the 100kph limit by what I thought was no more than 5-7kph!It turned out to be 12kph!Yes I challenged and yes I went for a Dyno road check and the result came back within 1km of the GPS reading that stated my speedometer was out by 6kph!6kph that put me above the speedlimit,For 4 years I had been driving that car like that without incident and still do 2 years on. The cop was fair and I have spoken with him since!His surprise was they did not let me off!Of course you do have a few gestarpo candidates but very few and you feel your hard done by try picking up the pieces after a smash and then telling the family that someone they love is not coming home.
scotty20001,
Dec 26, 9:06am
because SPEED KILLS RIGHT! we all know that drift 4kph over the 100k limit and YOU WILL DIE! speed measurement is dead accurate with GPS.
flitt,
Dec 26, 9:17am
scotty, you are missing the point. You are too tied up with the number 4. The idea is to get people to slow down during the silly season. The idea is to reduce accidents. The speed does make a difference, not the number 4. If govt/police wanted extra revenue, they could quite happily make it happen without the 4km/h thing.
Don't believe everything you read on the internet! I'm happy to be proven wrong (we all make mistakes) but where's the inaccuracy my calculations!
scotty20001,
Dec 26, 10:28am
too tired to work it out at the moment if im honest!
next-to-normal,
Dec 26, 10:31am
death by doctor has never been higher and grossly under reported,at least 5 times the road toll.2 million cars kill 300 a year, yet 10,000 doctors kill at least a 1000-1500 +, so where is the adds on tv about that,
sr2,
Dec 26, 10:45am
Worse than that, the vast majority of people killed on NZ roads are breast fed as babies, the Police should do something about it!
doug207,
Dec 26, 10:58am
Your 4400m, figure is out, even by your calculations on your little thing in that link.
Can't be a huge deal to you with all that power your Commodore provides.
tonyrockyhorror,
Dec 26, 12:12pm
Close enough.
So going back to the very beginning. At 95km/h you should be 36m behind the vehicle in front, not 6m. We'll use your 4m vehicle length. In the interest of not giving Betty, the driver of the 95km/h vehicle, a fright, we'll only pull back into the same lane once we're 20m ahead of the other vehicle. So we've got to travel (36 + 4 + 4 + 20) = 64m more than the other vehicle in order to overtake safely. Assuming we never exceed 100km/h we're covering 1.3888.m/s more than the vehicle we're overtaking. So that's (64m / 1.3888.) = 46.08s to overtake. So at 100km/h we need 48.06s meaning 1280m or 1.28km to pass.
But do it at 120km/h and that's cut down to 9.2s and 307m. And at 130km/h and it becomes 6.6s and 246m. Of course, there's acceleration time too but that depends on your vehicle.
gedo1,
Dec 26, 7:24pm
When a vehicle is "clocked" for speeding the details (ID number etc of the device) must be recorded.So you are saying that the Police would go the lengths of providing a duplicated device even down to the serial number and ID number!Your paranoia is leaking through.Why would they bother!
doug207,
Dec 26, 8:20pm
Not an issue for me thankfully.
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