Little Things You Hate

Minlak said:
No! If you have a correctly worn seat belt it is in the outside of the clothing - you could however drape a blanket or shawl over yourself and get pinged - oh and the kicker here the only way to get the ticket removed is by providing new information that proves you had your seatbelt on - the picture they send you is already deemed to be proof you didn’t so you can’t use it to argue your case until you go to court and hope the judge agrees with you
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What did the photo look like?
Apparently the vast majority of fines are for incorrect waring of a seatbelt, rather than no seatbelt.
I was listening to an interview the other day and this woman had been fined because here passenger had apparently not been wearing her seatbelt correctly. They reconstructed the day and found that her passenger had this really big collar thing on her jacket and it obscured most of the seatbelt. She obtained the actual photo, and it was very hard to make out the passenger at all, let alone if she had a seat belt on.
www.abc.net.au

Are seatbelt detection cameras up to the task? - ABC listen

More states are now using mobile phone cameras to detect cameras to monitor seatbelts. It's not just drivers not wearing a seatbelt who can cop a penalty, you can also be on the hook if your front seat passengers aren't wearing one, or not wearing it correctly. No one can argue against the...
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As you said, the onus is on you to prove otherwise, so it's kind of a "guilty until proven innocent" situation.
 
Oddjob said:
*sheeple!

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Exactly! Do your own research. Same woth drinking and driving, I'll know when I have had too much!


And another thing, if you have indulged in the amazing flavour combination of smoking a big fat cigar with petro-fumes while pumping petrol into your car you don't know what you're missing.








LTIH - I've killed my streak after 19 days on snow and all by my own foolishness! I meant to buy a 3 day ticket but I purchased a 2 day ticket. So when I rocked over for a half day this morning before moving towns tonight I discovered my error. The worst bit is that this ski field only offers half day tickets for the afternoon and the window price for a 1 day is a bit much for a morning of snow play. I did consider hitting the 1 way gondola site seeing ticket and coming down a very epic back country line, but that would be through some avalanche prone terrain and my common sense outweighed the ego.
 
Tubbsy said:
Waze is really good for mobile speed cameras etc.
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I'm relatively new to it as I updated my car head unit to a 10" android unit several months back.

Rather than using car play, Google Play and all the apps are loaded on the unit so once the route is driven or loaded up, they work offline for regular routes on mounted cameras.

SA has 5 permanent Seatbelt & Mobile phone cameras... Which will also ping you for inattentiveness. I pass under 2 of them and through 8 Speed & Red light cameras on my regular commute.

The warning just makes you get the car cockpit ready for the photoshoot ;)
 
Tubbsy said:
What does that involve?
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No hands on the steering wheel, reading a book, eating a bowl of cereal, leaning down into the passenger footwell to grab something... Getting some head action from those in the passenger seat :)

Seen a few funnies captured on the SA cameras and I would suppose they identify if the car is moving or stationary.
 
Mattyp said:
We have some mobile ones that pop-up in random spots, it's a huge fkng galvanized steel gantry that you can spot from about 17km down the road...they always get the middle finger salute as I drive through.
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No mobile units in SA so far but I read that 4 more permanent installs are planned for early this year. No doubt ear marked for 5 lane traffic that is at a standstill from 6am till 6pm every day as that seems the most lucrative.
 
The new AI camera in Pomme land lasted less than 24hrs before they cut it down.
This checked everything from speed, rego, insurance, seatbelts... To flagging arrest warrants, dental appointments and supposedly was facial recognition.
Bloke drives past and takes photo with phone :p

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Yeah we have the mobile ones @Mattyp mebtioned here too.

Frankly if you get done by one you aren’t paying enough attention and deserve it. Mobile speed vans are all big VW transporters and easy to spot too.

Gets a little sneakier in NSW with bland small SUVs so Waze is brilliant for that. Not infallible, but up to date crowdsourcing means people driving the opposite way report hidden HWP which is very nice of them…
 
ozzybmx said:
No mobile units in SA so far but I read that 4 more permanent installs are planned for early this year. No doubt ear marked for 5 lane traffic that is at a standstill from 6am till 6pm every day as that seems the most lucrative.
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We have these moblile things getting around all over the place in Tassie. There are permanent speed cameras, but I don't know of any permanent seatbelt ones.
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Those are very similar to the mobile phone ones we have. I think they’ve been upgraded to do seatbelts and unregistered cars now too, so it’s probably just software.
 
LTIH: People having a whinge about bell ringing on shared pathways.

Some with complain that you don't ring your bell and some with complain that when you do, it's a "get out of the way" like gesture.
You can't bloody win.

For reference I don't have a bell and just slow down and pass if there's plenty of space and if there isn't much space or they are totally blocking the path I slow down and say "G'day, mind if I slip past". Never had an issue.
 
Stredda said:
For reference I don't have a bell and just slow down and pass if there's plenty of space and if there isn't much space or they are totally blocking the path I slow down and say "G'day, mind if I slip past". Never had an issue.
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same. tried the bell for while, got sick of people turning around and into my path... and then getting shitty with me because I had to swerve around them at the last second.
 
Stredda said:
LTIH: People having a whinge about bell ringing on shared pathways.

Some with complain that you don't ring your bell and some with complain that when you do, it's a "get out of the way" like gesture.
You can't bloody win.

For reference I don't have a bell and just slow down and pass if there's plenty of space and if there isn't much space or they are totally blocking the path I slow down and scream out: "STRAVA RUN!!!!". Never had an issue.
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:)
 
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