This is a site we’re all familiar with the policeman stood by the roadside, like that, pointing a gun at your on a radar or a laser or whatever it’s called I’m, not so sure, and Chris And his colleague Ali here I’ve got what is it.
This is just a laser. It says on there. Yep trollee is a speed detection device. So the old and L radars. You have a really wide beam yeah and you get you to fear some big wagons, small Morgan there. This is etc, and I rolled like this, we’ve, got this dual carriageway faked 40 limit.
Invariably, your vehicles, it’s, speeding them in the off side lane and the old radar would struggle to pick them all right. It was too close to have to jump out and try and stop, and by the time you pick them up the laser.
However, for instance, on this view here, we’ve got probably about 1,500 feet view. The beam will have spent no more than three. Was that accurate that accurate you’ve, got to pick up cyclists and pedestrians with this.
Yes, speeding, pedestrians! Oh yeah, well, speeding here, you can’t pick the bathrooms okay. So what will in what forty mile an hour limit here? Yep? So do you have a must be a guideline somewhere? That tells you.
The guidelines are yes book. Somebody could start prosecuting or issuing tickets at about 47 miles per hour right, okay, but because we are in real traffic department, we ‘ Ve got certain amount of discretion as to how fast of it will be before we would actually deal with it by way of process.
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So you look at a day like this. While it’s, nice and fine visibility is good. The road surface is dry. The traffic flow is not so heavy that’s. What, if you say? Well, okay, there’s, not too much danger at this moment in time.
It could perhaps raise the stakes a little bit and maybe not fifty miles an hour right. Something like that. Obviously, if we start getting the weather coming in, we get a rep wet road surface. We get rush hour traffic.
Then we’ll start looking at comes down. Is that’s, going yeah yeah yeah? It’s early? We’re down south. So what does that? Do I mean in a nutshell, can you tell me in a nutshell, how it works? What does it do send a beam and measure it just shoots out yeah a non-aggressive laser beam if you like? No, that would be P.
Oh, reduce with putting okay. That will be a bit dodgy. What bit of it sends you, how it bounces, the car comes back the device measures, the speed it comes back and it shows up if you’re law around here.
The Aster shows you the speed and it shows a plus or minus. So there’s, no arguments to say what was the bit that way. The other way are we on the way it would say: oh so get the plus the speed, and then this is the distance in feet on this side here right.
So if that said, if it was going about, that means you can do do people for speeding. If you like, going in either day, but just as accurate, really we’ve got it fires down there, get lock on a vehicle way to show you how far down how far away the vehicle is, an L fast.
It’s. Going exactly right, so what we’re trying to do is what happens? Is we see a vehicle traveling towards us? We form an opinion of how fast that vehicles going to actually stop in a vehicle. Our opinion about vehicle speed because we’re in real traffic.
We’re allowed to give evidence and expert opinion because we considered experts when it comes to speed traffic offenses. Of course. So we see the deer to say yeah. I think that there’s, a drill about 50 miles an hour.
We then check it with the speed gun, so this beagle is actually our robber asian for the offence right. So we lock on let it run for a couple seconds just to make sure the speed is either increasing, decreasing or steady.
Then we’ll, lock it on for the speed of course. Oh well, I mean what do you? Do you press a button on that and it sort of goes got you? Does it something like yeah, you press the trigger and it records whatever speed that vehicle’s doing so long as you’ve got the trigger depressed.
It keeps showing the speed whether it’s decreasing or increasing, and you’ll see the distance, and this is. It is a vehicle’s going to orders when he’s satisfied you ‘ Ve got these the screen, you want release the trigger and it on the heads-up display there.
How did you know which cow it is, though I mean that Ellis. Well, there’s, a sighting practical in the heads-up display there. There’s. A little red sighting Richard all right, you get that square on TV, but it’s not checked, because the beam is so small because it can’t be chicken.
Anything else does it. What does it take a picture of the vehicle or something I don’t have to go and chase it, not this one. You can link it in lays into a photographic. What I mean is if this van coming up the road now, if he’s, doing 60 mile an hour now, you’re, going to say right-click 60 mile an hour, but I love you for that.
How does he get his ticket? I mean: do you have to write? I’ll, be stopping there roughly going stopping yeah it’s, a beauty this shoe, because it goes so far down the road we can have the vehicle checked and locked on it.
Maybe 600 700 feet away, which gives us plenty of time to walk out and stop the vehicle safely to pull it in. So what you’re saying is, by the time you’ve, seen that laser gun, if you’ve, been speeding.
It’s, probably too late, yeah good, tear right close. Can I have a go at this? If you can convince Gary to get out of it yeah they come on board all over your RVs on yourself all right, I wonder what do a Chris Wright? If you look in the heads-up display just to you, it’s like a shooting game.
Yeah and a computer little wrecked it’ll. I could see it. Okay hable gone way down the road it’s, no good doing it close all right. So look beyond these vehicles commit to war. You can see the green building down there.
Yeah it’s, been a traffic signal to say that right, okay, let these vehicles clear out the way, yeah and then aim down there. It’s flashing. This is that right, that’s, how it’s locked on from the previous chain.
Okay, now let’s just coming towards you now so depress the trigger just a trigger. Let’s, keep it on, keep it locked down, keep it locked down and locked it and locked it. Keep your trigger on. I’ve got the trigger on all right.
Thank you aim. You got ta aim it a vehicle. Look. I’m on a vehicle that’s. Shutting down there all right and you’ll, see the speed changing you see the distance changing yeah. He’s, doing 24 mile an hour 25 mile an hour and we just pulled up speed.
It up. Watch him. He’s going for it. Then I study here you let go of the trigger. I got it locks on what’s on plus 34 285 feet. So did you get rid of that? Just blood sugar once yeah? That clears it off and you can start no got a nice clear field.
Now some piece of cake, this isn’t it yep. Just for this, you so IQ it right. Okay, see wait for the next batch of cars. Call me through all the lights come on, then you’re ready for it yeah there. The company looks if you get the reticle on that we get in on there depress the trigger.
I keep it depressed. I see it’s, recording at nearly 1400 feet. Yeah speeds 33 building up very, very slowly, going steady by the casinos all the way down here with each missus can the real over this long, the dildo we’ve, had them down here at 75 miles an hour believe it not.
In this. Exactly same place, 38:34 slowing down 32, he’s. Seen us this slide uh! Well, let him go that one hang on ears! Well, there’s, an orca win! Look right! I’m gonna get one of these outside lane.
Now he’s going fairly quickly. Look at this building speed up commits award. You get the offside lane. Yeah come on t3 fight. It’s, very good, gotten blood on it getting books. We’ll. Remember this next time you’re stopped a forty three to forty