Not all new technology proves to be an improvement for some drivers.
The increasing use of technology to enforce traffic laws now sees the development of machine vision technology that can record automatically multiple speeders at once even if they are running in traffic. A German company called Victronic is successfully selling PoliScanspeed, a new laser technology that can measure the speed of multiple vehicles in several lanes and document it with photographs, providing digital evidence to law enforcement agencies.
The PoliScanspeed system recently nailed two Mad-Max like speeders in Australia who were running side-by-side. They were caught on camera driving at 195 kpm (121 mph) and 207 kph (129 mph) in a 90 kph (56 mph) zone.
Victronic claims a case such as this would have been dismissed if conventional technology had been used, since conventional laser speed measurement cannot distinguish the measured values of two vehicles driving next to each other. However, the PoliScanspeed speed measuring system can clearly allocate measured data to vehicles that are driving closely behind each other or next to each other.
One of the two speeders pleaded guilty at the beginning of the trial. The second driver initially claimed that only the other one had been speeding and wanted to challenge the charges. In the end, an expert report ordered by the police, eventually, convinced the defense that further arguments were futile. The drivers were sentenced to fines of 750 and 1200 Australian dollars, and their licenses suspended for six and 15 months.
