You can make the argument not to speed, but cops lower speed limits on major roads deliberately to make people speed based on their common sense rather than sense of law.
Police have no say in what speed limits are; that just enforce the laws. It is the local administration that sets those limits. I am not saying that there are a lot of speed traps in small towns everywhere but I doubt very much that these towns can afford a drone.
In Canada we have speed warning signs. Basically it is a sign with a speed limit and an arrow that means that the speed limit will change to the new value ahead. This give time to slow down. In BC (check page 2.10) when going from 100Kmh to 50Kmh requires a 70Kmh transition zone and at least 5 signs. Maybe the issue in the US isn't the police but the laws on signage.
The article compares the cost of a contractor to the wages paid to an employee. These are not the same thing. Here are some of the costs that employees incur that are not incurred by employing contractors;
Medical benefits. Pensions/401K. HR. Training. Insurance
Anyone in HR will tell you that the costs of an employee are much more than just their wages.
Sorry but you just don't get the idea of what happens when you speed. 1. Reaction times are decreased. That extra second or two may make the difference between being able to do something and it already being too late. 2. Vehicles take longer to stop and are less manoeuvrable when at high speeds. Try to avoid an object on the road when doing 55 and then try the same manoeuvre at 100. I doubt you will have the same success; you may even crash.
The point I was trying to make is that you have less chance of avoiding a critical situation if you are going 100mph than if you are going 55mph or even 70mph.
Even if most accidents are caused by inattention, and I am not agreeing with that, at least some are caused by excessive speed.
The accident with my sister was heavily investigated and it was determined that the driver was speeding at the time and that it was a major contributing factor. It was a quiet stretch of rural highway with houses on either side.
That goes to show how little you actually know about the "highway" system. A Freeway is a limited access highway. The US has a network of highways called Interstates. They also have US and State highway networks that do not have the access restrictions as an Interstate. Here is a good example of a 2 lane windy hilly highway in the US; Highway 1 in California. It is a rural highway with areas that are populated.
My sister was killed on a section of Highway 3, also called the Southern Trans-Canada Highway. So yes it was a highway and not a US Interstate.
I guess you also have no animals in your state. Run into a deer, elk,moose, bear, etc because you couldn't stop or avoid in time due to high speed is going to hurt a lot. There is a difference between slow, 55mph, and above your sight/reaction range and vehicle capability, 100mph. Most modern cars can cruise at that higher speed.
There is a way to trap drivers into speeding. Target locations where there is a high probability of drivers missing the change of speed sign ie two lane road and only one sign on one side of the road, driver passing another vehicle which obscures visibility of the sign or change of speed on a downhill stretch which requires active deceleration to comply.
True but you do not need a drone to do that? It happens all the time in small towns. It is almost a joke in some places.
What this is all about is of course, computers will do my job for me, I will still take the credit and get paid for doing nothing (if it really worked, of course they would fire them and just use computers). Automated speed cameras do not assist police officers they replace police officers.
Drones require pilots and observers to operate. All they are is moving the people out of the aircraft and reducing costs. Remember, I am talking about the drones not the cameras. Even cameras require people to do the paperwork, go to court, handle complaints, etc.
Not all rural highways are 4 lanes; many are 2 lanes. No sharp turns on rural highways? I used to live in the mountains where there were plenty of sharp turns. There are also hills which limit vision. I am talking highway not freeway.My sister was a pedestrian crossing the highway. She didn't see the car coming and the car didn't see her till it was too late. The vehicle was doing 80mph in a 55mph zone. Maybe if he had been doing the limit he could have avoided her or she may have been able to get out of the way. The speed limit was low because it was a populated rural area with lots of kids and animals.
Highway speeds and metro speeds are generally different. For example, outside Vancouver the speed on Highway 1 is 100kmh, Closer to Vancouver it drops to 80kmh when congestion becomes an issue. Same highway, different area, different speed limit.
Reckless is subjective; it is much easier to enter evidence of speed, an objective measurement, in court. Why are they being reckless? Because that want to speed. A drone can be used to place both charges. Even at that, speed reduces reaction time and vehicle control. I am not for 55mph limits on roads designed for 70mph; that is just stupid and annoying. What I am against is idiots who want to do 100MPH just because they can afford a hot car and have no regard for other people on the highway..
Don't be an idiot. Someone "speeding" on an empty rural highway isn't a danger to anyone. A busy metro-area highway is a different matter.
A rural highway is empty right up until there is something on the road. The person going too fast may not be able to see it in time to react and avoid it. To turn this a bit personal, my sister was killed on a rural highway by a speeder who didn't see her till it was too late.
Helicopters are used as chase vehicles.
How often do you need to chase someone in the middle of nowhere?
They do chase people on highways near cities though.
The OP talked about painted stripes on the road to calculate speed; that can't be used on busy metro highways because there's too much traffic; it's a method only useful in more rural areas.
Why can't marks on the road and shoulder be used to time vehicles in heavy traffic? It is easy to spot a vehicle driving above the limit from the air and time how long it takes to go between two marks on the road. Have you ever watched a chase from the air. The only difference here is the use of a drone instead of an aircraft. Here are the specs for Australia
How about the driver on the 4 lane highway in moderate traffic weaving in and out of so they can get that extra 10mph? Speed at inappropriate times kills.
One very effective policing technique is to catch small fish and entice them to roll on the bigger fish. Also, if more small fish get caught the big fish may stop out of self preservation.
Homeless does not necessarily mean on the street. It could also mean "of no fixed address". Someone who couch surfs among a group of friends every few days or weeks is considered "homeless" but still has a place to stay and an internet connection to use.
Either method is bad. There's no justification for using these kinds of resources for a victimless "crime" (speeding on rural highways), and these methods aren't viable for catching speeders in urban areas; for that, you need to actually put a cop in a car on the street, where he can also spot other activities that are much worse than speeding, such as tailgaiting, reckless driving, drunk driving, etc.
Interesting idea on what a "victimless crime" is. Tell that to the innocent driver who is hit by the speeder. Tell that to the insurance companies who have to pay for the accidents caused by speeding. Tell that to the family of someone killed by a speeder. Speeders have a higher accident rate no matter where they are.
Drones can also see all the activities you mentioned over a much wider area than a police vehicle. That can then vector a police car to stop the offender.
Drones would be very useful on highways and freeways to catch traffic offenders.
Helicopters are used as chase vehicles. When they are not chasing someone they may as well be catching traffic violators.
If you mean GPS satellites the vehicle has to have a GPS device that is transmitting it's ID, location and speed. Very few vehicles do that.
If you mean image satellites then you are way off. Satellites do not have the angle or resolution to read a license number so can not identify a single vehicle. They generally take still photographs so it is very difficult to spot vehicles going faster than the general flow of traffic. There are very few satellites available that can handle video. Those that can are generally to expensive to use for a $200 speeding ticket.
What they are using now are helicopters and light planes. Drones are much less expensive than either of those.
This is already being done except that the police use helicopters and light planes. Ever notice the big white stripes beside or across the road at regular intervals? They time how long it takes a vehicle to go between the marks and calculate the speed. I see no difference between using a drone and a helicopter. They both have pilots and watch for speeders. Just because a drone is higher tech does not make using it bad.
The issue is that some schools have these supplies on their list of equipment that parents are required to purchase. Facial tissue is a quite common requirement and I found a few places that require hand sanitizer.
As for using paper towel; you do that when you have a cold. I am pretty sure it will last about half an hour and you will never do it again.
I am not saying this is right but it is always easier to get a capitol expenditure through than it is to get an operating expenditure through. Say an operating expenditure would cost $100K/year. It is easy for a bean counter to say "that expenditure will cost us a million dollars over the next ten years. We wont pay a million dollars for that." But when a one time expense of $200K comes up it is easier to justify.
The $200K is not just for the iPads. Here are a few other costs incurred. 1. It costs to install apps and rugged covers. 2. extra insurance 3. Spares 4. Continuing IT support for iPads when people foul them up.
The $200K is not just for the iPads. Here are a few other costs incurred. 1. It costs to install apps and rugged covers. 2. extra insurance 3. Spares 4. Continuing IT support for iPads when people foul them up.
I guess they have never seen 5 year olds play with their toys. Considering that you need to keep the screen exposed so that it functions as a touch screen there is not case that can protect the screen from a blow. I would really like to see the stats on how long they last. I bet the average time will be less than a week.
Over the 49 year history of the Reno Air race there has been exactly one crash that involved spectators. Yes it was a horrific crash and caused many fatalities; a bit like a bus accident. Considering the traffic fatality figures I bet they were safer at the airport than driving to the airport. Everything we do has risk involved. Even taking a shower. We accept these risks and go on. A single freak accident shouldn't kill a sport. It is not your place to decide what risk someone else will take. If you don't think air races are safe enough then don't go; let others make their own decision.
There is a huge difference between an unlimited air race and a display airshow. Display airshows are flown ate relatively slow speeds nowhere near the 500mph of unlimited racers
"Second, air show performers â" both civilian and military â" are prohibited from performing maneuvers that direct the energy of their aircraft toward the area in which the spectators are sitting."
The race course is parallel to the runway so clause has been followed. The issue is that a 500mph unlimited racer with control issues can come down miles away from where the control problem happened and in any direction. They don't usually just fall out of the sky like display aircraft. Even if the planned direction was not toward the audience there is no way of knowing where an aircraft with control problems will come down.
"Third, the industry and regulatory authorities strictly enforce minimum set-back distances that were developed to ensure that, in the event of an accident, pieces of the aircraft will not end up in the spectator area."
That only works if the aircraft crashes under the planned flight path. If it veers off course due to a control problem this is moot.
Sorry but you missed the point. My comment was not about malicious sites it was about the perception that employees waste time surfing the web when they should be working. That is where the trust comes in. If the employee is not getting the work done then fire him. It doesn't matter if he is using his desktop or his smartphone to shirk work then that is the problem. Putting up gates in front of honest employees make them feel like criminals. Good employees do not stay at companies where that is the atmosphere very long.
BTW, even known sites have been compromised so the whitelist is not bullet proof.
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You can make the argument not to speed, but cops lower speed limits on major roads deliberately to make people speed based on their common sense rather than sense of law.
Police have no say in what speed limits are; that just enforce the laws. It is the local administration that sets those limits. I am not saying that there are a lot of speed traps in small towns everywhere but I doubt very much that these towns can afford a drone.
In Canada we have speed warning signs. Basically it is a sign with a speed limit and an arrow that means that the speed limit will change to the new value ahead. This give time to slow down. In BC (check page 2.10) when going from 100Kmh to 50Kmh requires a 70Kmh transition zone and at least 5 signs. Maybe the issue in the US isn't the police but the laws on signage.
The article compares the cost of a contractor to the wages paid to an employee. These are not the same thing. Here are some of the costs that employees incur that are not incurred by employing contractors;
Medical benefits.
Pensions/401K.
HR.
Training.
Insurance
Anyone in HR will tell you that the costs of an employee are much more than just their wages.
Sorry but you just don't get the idea of what happens when you speed.
1. Reaction times are decreased. That extra second or two may make the difference between being able to do something and it already being too late.
2. Vehicles take longer to stop and are less manoeuvrable when at high speeds. Try to avoid an object on the road when doing 55 and then try the same manoeuvre at 100. I doubt you will have the same success; you may even crash.
The point I was trying to make is that you have less chance of avoiding a critical situation if you are going 100mph than if you are going 55mph or even 70mph.
Even if most accidents are caused by inattention, and I am not agreeing with that, at least some are caused by excessive speed.
The accident with my sister was heavily investigated and it was determined that the driver was speeding at the time and that it was a major contributing factor. It was a quiet stretch of rural highway with houses on either side.
That goes to show how little you actually know about the "highway" system. A Freeway is a limited access highway. The US has a network of highways called Interstates. They also have US and State highway networks that do not have the access restrictions as an Interstate. Here is a good example of a 2 lane windy hilly highway in the US; Highway 1 in California. It is a rural highway with areas that are populated.
My sister was killed on a section of Highway 3, also called the Southern Trans-Canada Highway. So yes it was a highway and not a US Interstate.
I guess you also have no animals in your state. Run into a deer, elk,moose, bear, etc because you couldn't stop or avoid in time due to high speed is going to hurt a lot. There is a difference between slow, 55mph, and above your sight/reaction range and vehicle capability, 100mph. Most modern cars can cruise at that higher speed.
There is a way to trap drivers into speeding. Target locations where there is a high probability of drivers missing the change of speed sign ie two lane road and only one sign on one side of the road, driver passing another vehicle which obscures visibility of the sign or change of speed on a downhill stretch which requires active deceleration to comply.
True but you do not need a drone to do that? It happens all the time in small towns. It is almost a joke in some places.
What this is all about is of course, computers will do my job for me, I will still take the credit and get paid for doing nothing (if it really worked, of course they would fire them and just use computers). Automated speed cameras do not assist police officers they replace police officers.
Drones require pilots and observers to operate. All they are is moving the people out of the aircraft and reducing costs. Remember, I am talking about the drones not the cameras. Even cameras require people to do the paperwork, go to court, handle complaints, etc.
Not all rural highways are 4 lanes; many are 2 lanes. No sharp turns on rural highways? I used to live in the mountains where there were plenty of sharp turns. There are also hills which limit vision. I am talking highway not freeway.My sister was a pedestrian crossing the highway. She didn't see the car coming and the car didn't see her till it was too late. The vehicle was doing 80mph in a 55mph zone. Maybe if he had been doing the limit he could have avoided her or she may have been able to get out of the way. The speed limit was low because it was a populated rural area with lots of kids and animals.
Highway speeds and metro speeds are generally different. For example, outside Vancouver the speed on Highway 1 is 100kmh, Closer to Vancouver it drops to 80kmh when congestion becomes an issue. Same highway, different area, different speed limit.
Reckless is subjective; it is much easier to enter evidence of speed, an objective measurement, in court. Why are they being reckless? Because that want to speed. A drone can be used to place both charges.
Even at that, speed reduces reaction time and vehicle control. I am not for 55mph limits on roads designed for 70mph; that is just stupid and annoying. What I am against is idiots who want to do 100MPH just because they can afford a hot car and have no regard for other people on the highway..
If you can spot a drone following you around you are spending too much time looking at the sky and not enough time looking at the road.
Don't be an idiot. Someone "speeding" on an empty rural highway isn't a danger to anyone. A busy metro-area highway is a different matter.
A rural highway is empty right up until there is something on the road. The person going too fast may not be able to see it in time to react and avoid it. To turn this a bit personal, my sister was killed on a rural highway by a speeder who didn't see her till it was too late.
Helicopters are used as chase vehicles.
How often do you need to chase someone in the middle of nowhere?
They do chase people on highways near cities though.
The OP talked about painted stripes on the road to calculate speed; that can't be used on busy metro highways because there's too much traffic; it's a method only useful in more rural areas.
Why can't marks on the road and shoulder be used to time vehicles in heavy traffic? It is easy to spot a vehicle driving above the limit from the air and time how long it takes to go between two marks on the road. Have you ever watched a chase from the air. The only difference here is the use of a drone instead of an aircraft. Here are the specs for Australia
How about the driver on the 4 lane highway in moderate traffic weaving in and out of so they can get that extra 10mph? Speed at inappropriate times kills.
One very effective policing technique is to catch small fish and entice them to roll on the bigger fish. Also, if more small fish get caught the big fish may stop out of self preservation.
Homeless does not necessarily mean on the street. It could also mean "of no fixed address". Someone who couch surfs among a group of friends every few days or weeks is considered "homeless" but still has a place to stay and an internet connection to use.
Perhaps you should look up the word entrapment. A drone in no way coerces a driver to speed. Perhaps you are confusing "catch" with "entrap".
Either method is bad. There's no justification for using these kinds of resources for a victimless "crime" (speeding on rural highways), and these methods aren't viable for catching speeders in urban areas; for that, you need to actually put a cop in a car on the street, where he can also spot other activities that are much worse than speeding, such as tailgaiting, reckless driving, drunk driving, etc.
Interesting idea on what a "victimless crime" is. Tell that to the innocent driver who is hit by the speeder. Tell that to the insurance companies who have to pay for the accidents caused by speeding. Tell that to the family of someone killed by a speeder. Speeders have a higher accident rate no matter where they are.
Drones can also see all the activities you mentioned over a much wider area than a police vehicle. That can then vector a police car to stop the offender.
Drones would be very useful on highways and freeways to catch traffic offenders.
Helicopters are used as chase vehicles. When they are not chasing someone they may as well be catching traffic violators.
How does one entrap a speeder from a drone?
If you mean GPS satellites the vehicle has to have a GPS device that is transmitting it's ID, location and speed. Very few vehicles do that.
If you mean image satellites then you are way off. Satellites do not have the angle or resolution to read a license number so can not identify a single vehicle. They generally take still photographs so it is very difficult to spot vehicles going faster than the general flow of traffic. There are very few satellites available that can handle video. Those that can are generally to expensive to use for a $200 speeding ticket.
What they are using now are helicopters and light planes. Drones are much less expensive than either of those.
This is already being done except that the police use helicopters and light planes. Ever notice the big white stripes beside or across the road at regular intervals? They time how long it takes a vehicle to go between the marks and calculate the speed. I see no difference between using a drone and a helicopter. They both have pilots and watch for speeders. Just because a drone is higher tech does not make using it bad.
The issue is that some schools have these supplies on their list of equipment that parents are required to purchase. Facial tissue is a quite common requirement and I found a few places that require hand sanitizer.
As for using paper towel; you do that when you have a cold. I am pretty sure it will last about half an hour and you will never do it again.
I am not saying this is right but it is always easier to get a capitol expenditure through than it is to get an operating expenditure through. Say an operating expenditure would cost $100K/year. It is easy for a bean counter to say "that expenditure will cost us a million dollars over the next ten years. We wont pay a million dollars for that." But when a one time expense of $200K comes up it is easier to justify.
The $200K is not just for the iPads. Here are a few other costs incurred.
1. It costs to install apps and rugged covers.
2. extra insurance
3. Spares
4. Continuing IT support for iPads when people foul them up.
Add all that up and 200K is cheap
The $200K is not just for the iPads. Here are a few other costs incurred.
1. It costs to install apps and rugged covers.
2. extra insurance
3. Spares
4. Continuing IT support for iPads when people foul them up.
I guess they have never seen 5 year olds play with their toys. Considering that you need to keep the screen exposed so that it functions as a touch screen there is not case that can protect the screen from a blow. I would really like to see the stats on how long they last. I bet the average time will be less than a week.
Over the 49 year history of the Reno Air race there has been exactly one crash that involved spectators. Yes it was a horrific crash and caused many fatalities; a bit like a bus accident. Considering the traffic fatality figures I bet they were safer at the airport than driving to the airport. Everything we do has risk involved. Even taking a shower. We accept these risks and go on. A single freak accident shouldn't kill a sport. It is not your place to decide what risk someone else will take. If you don't think air races are safe enough then don't go; let others make their own decision.
There is a huge difference between an unlimited air race and a display airshow. Display airshows are flown ate relatively slow speeds nowhere near the 500mph of unlimited racers
"Second, air show performers â" both civilian and military â" are prohibited from performing maneuvers that direct the energy of their aircraft toward the area in which the spectators are sitting."
The race course is parallel to the runway so clause has been followed. The issue is that a 500mph unlimited racer with control issues can come down miles away from where the control problem happened and in any direction. They don't usually just fall out of the sky like display aircraft. Even if the planned direction was not toward the audience there is no way of knowing where an aircraft with control problems will come down.
"Third, the industry and regulatory authorities strictly enforce minimum set-back distances that were developed to ensure that, in the event of an accident, pieces of the aircraft will not end up in the spectator area."
That only works if the aircraft crashes under the planned flight path. If it veers off course due to a control problem this is moot.
Sorry but you missed the point. My comment was not about malicious sites it was about the perception that employees waste time surfing the web when they should be working. That is where the trust comes in. If the employee is not getting the work done then fire him. It doesn't matter if he is using his desktop or his smartphone to shirk work then that is the problem. Putting up gates in front of honest employees make them feel like criminals. Good employees do not stay at companies where that is the atmosphere very long.
BTW, even known sites have been compromised so the whitelist is not bullet proof.