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Evil Speeding Monkey Defeats The Evil Speeding Tickets
11:50PM Jesus Diaz | Another idiot roams the world in his speeding car. The world being the squarish state of Arizona. This guy has avoided 37 tickets totalling $US6700 using a monkey mask. Still, not a match to Animal in Germany. [Thanks gitemstevedave]
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Don’t Speed Up Or You’ll Be Fired By A Goddamn Tank
1:20PM Jesus Diaz | This looks like a road in Sweden, Norway, or Germany. Wherever it is, they use their tanks to fire at speeding cars. Maybe. Whatever it is they do, I know I wouldn’t be messing with these traffic cops. [Thanks David] More »
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London Transport Authority To Test Tracking System That Stops Speeding FROM SPACE
8:45PM John Herrman | Transport for London is announcing a large-scale trial of the Intelligent Speed Adaption system, which uses preloaded road data and GPS to slow speeders. Basically, the future is everything you were afraid of. More »
Vehicles
How to Use Speed Cameras to Bury Your Enemies in Speeding Tickets
1:00AM Matt Buchanan | I think that speed cameras are the devil’s technology that impugn our basic human rights, but Maryland high school students show how they can be used for fun and profit revenge. More »
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The Ultimate Speed Bump: There is no Escape
8:20AM Sean Fallon | While the city of Philadelphia is content with using 3D images to deter speeders, the authorities in ShanXi province, China are taking a far more drastic approach. They built a 100 foot (30 metres) long, 2 foot (60cm) high, winding speed block smack dab in the middle of the Jing Zhuang highway. Sure, it scratches up cars, looks hideous and causes massive traffic jams, but hey–by screwing everyone it manages to screw the speeders. Suck on that leadfoot! More »
Gadgets
Laser Star Allegedly Turns Your Clunker Into Invisible Asphalt Phantom
7:00AM Jack Loftus | The Laser Star is new to the States, but it’s already made a name for itself in Europe as a cheap, effective way to jam police speed trap lasers. These demonstrations from Laser Jammer Tests show why. No fewer than four police-issue laser detectors were foiled by the Laser Star without so much as a hiccup. Regardless of your views on this kind of tech, it’s still amazingly cool how the Audi S4 in the videos is effectively invisible to the laser detectors. And when you aren’t fighting the man, Laser Star’s sensors help park the car too. Personally, I can’t wait to get one and recreate my favourite Vin Diesel scenes from The Fast and the Furious. More »
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GPS Vs. Radar Gun Battle Appealed: GPS Wins!
12:30PM Matt Hickey | We’ve been following the story of Shaun Malone, the California teen who was clocked by an officer doing 62MPH (100KPH) in a 45MPH (72KPH) zone, and was issued a ticket for US$190. He took the ticket to trial and lost, as the state brought in a GPS expert via affidavit who said that the units weren’t that accurate. The teen appealed, however, and the same expert revised his testimony on the stand, saying the device was accurate to within 1MPH (1.6KPH). The device in question had the capability of emailing the teen’s parents if he ever went above 70MPH (112KPH), and also logged all other speeds. These logs were used and the judge found enough reason to throw out the original conviction, and will rule in October on the matter that may have far-reaching effects. The real question now is why did the trooper’s radar gun think the speed was 33% faster than it actually was? [Ars] More »
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