'Modules' on Top of Street Lights

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#3219119 16-Apr-2024 15:18

What amazes me is that despite all those "features", nobody seems to know when the lights are on or off at the wrong time.

Why do the residents still have to ring up to complain ??

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#3219122 16-Apr-2024 15:21

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What amazes me is that despite all those "features", nobody seems to know when the lights are on or off at the wrong time.

Why do the residents still have to ring up to complain ??

At least on the north shore, they are all still on the old pilot wire system that frequently breaks because of storms.

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#3219123 16-Apr-2024 15:21

Probably the guy who set it all up left 6 years ago and no-one else knows how it works, haha.

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#3219143 16-Apr-2024 16:01

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Well ... that's no fun.

My thoughts EXACTLY, haha.

I had brief visions of being able to remotely control said devices via an app on my phone... :D

“A driver has been caught driving at 208 km/h and using a mobile phone in a 100 km/h zone near Paderborn. The sports car driver from Blomberg was stopped on Monday during a major police check, as reported by the police. The driver must now pay a fine of 700 euros (NZD 1.218,70) band surrender his driving licence for three months.

According to the police, they registered a total of 218 speeding offences on Monday. Two drivers were also found to be driving under the influence of drugs and three without a driving licence. Twelve people were caught using smartphones at the wheel.“ 😈

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#3219160 16-Apr-2024 16:04

“A driver has been caught driving at 208 km/h and using a mobile phone in a 100 km/h zone near Paderborn. The sports car driver from Blomberg was stopped on Monday during a major police check, as reported by the police. The driver must now pay a fine of 700 euros (NZD 1.218,70) band surrender his driving licence for three months.

According to the police, they registered a total of 218 speeding offences on Monday. Two drivers were also found to be driving under the influence of drugs and three without a driving licence. Twelve people were caught using smartphones at the wheel.“ 😈

Errr... whut?

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#3219165 16-Apr-2024 16:08

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“A driver has been caught driving at 208 km/h and using a mobile phone in a 100 km/h zone near Paderborn. The sports car driver from Blomberg was stopped on Monday during a major police check, as reported by the police. The driver must now pay a fine of 700 euros (NZD 1.218,70) band surrender his driving licence for three months.

According to the police, they registered a total of 218 speeding offences on Monday. Two drivers were also found to be driving under the influence of drugs and three without a driving licence. Twelve people were caught using smartphones at the wheel.“ 😈

Errr... whut?

What do you think they used (here in Germany) to catch a vehicle travelling at 208 km/h while the driver was using the APP on his smartphone? 😉

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#3219166 16-Apr-2024 16:10

What do you think they used (here in Germany) to catch a vehicle travelling at 208 km/h while the driver was using the APP on his smartphone? 😉

A camera, I would imagine.

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#3219167 16-Apr-2024 16:11

Tinkerisk:

“A driver has been caught driving at 208 km/h and using a mobile phone in a 100 km/h zone near Paderborn. The sports car driver from Blomberg was stopped on Monday during a major police check, as reported by the police. The driver must now pay a fine of 700 euros (NZD 1.218,70) band surrender his driving licence for three months.

That seems absolutely ridiculous. That should be a prison sentence. It's a near certain death sentence for anyone he hits.

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#3219169 16-Apr-2024 16:19

SamF:

What do you think they used (here in Germany) to catch a vehicle travelling at 208 km/h while the driver was using the APP on his smartphone? 😉

A camera, I would imagine.

They rolled out cameras with simple AI detection of cellphones being used/seatbelts not being used all over Australia last year (positive results are checked by an actual person before the fine is issued).

I know there's a couple of hundred of them set up in Victoria alone, and you receive a $577 fine and four demerit points if you are on your phone and a $385 fine and three demerit points if you aren't wearing your seatbelt. Given the revenue potential, I'm expecting them to arrive in NZ relatively soon :)

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#3219173 16-Apr-2024 16:27

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They rolled out cameras with simple AI detection of cellphones being used/seatbelts not being used all over Australia last year (positive results are checked by an actual person before the fine is issued).

I know there's a couple of hundred of them set up in Victoria alone, and you receive a $577 fine and four demerit points if you are on your phone and a $385 fine and three demerit points if you aren't wearing your seatbelt. Given the revenue potential, I'm expecting them to arrive in NZ relatively soon :)

Would be good but considering our governments don't seem to like the idea of setting decent fines and enforcing them it seems unlikely.

Why don't we have red light cameras and phone cameras all over the place and why have our fines not increased in over 20 years? Plus some fines make no sense, the fine for parking in a bus lane is $60, the fine for driving in one is $150!

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#3219174 16-Apr-2024 16:30

tieke:

They rolled out cameras with simple AI detection of cellphones being used/seatbelts not being used all over Australia last year (positive results are checked by an actual person before the fine is issued).

I know there's a couple of hundred of them set up in Victoria alone, and you receive a $577 fine and four demerit points if you are on your phone and a $385 fine and three demerit points if you aren't wearing your seatbelt. Given the revenue potential, I'm expecting them to arrive in NZ relatively soon :)

And as expected it is causing loads of false positives that people are having to fight to get overturned.

I saw on one facebook group someone who had a crapload of them because their car only has lap belts and they had no way to check for that, and another where someone was holding what they claimed was tissues in their hand and the picture was inconclusive about what it was they were holding.

They are holding up grainy black and white edge enhanced lousy images as evidence of something when it is not clear what is going on.

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#3219192 16-Apr-2024 17:15

blackjack17:

Why don't we have red light cameras and phone cameras all over the place and why have our fines not increased in over 20 years? Plus some fines make no sense, the fine for parking in a bus lane is $60, the fine for driving in one is $150!

My mother received a fine for driving through a red light 30 years ago when the Auckland City Council had their own red-light cameras.

The government took over all that and we can now see what a useless bunch of tossers they are.

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#3219319 16-Apr-2024 21:32

They rolled out cameras with simple AI detection of cellphones being used/seatbelts not being used all over Australia last year (positive results are checked by an actual person before the fine is issued).

I know there's a couple of hundred of them set up in Victoria alone, and you receive a $577 fine and four demerit points if you are on your phone and a $385 fine and three demerit points if you aren't wearing your seatbelt. Given the revenue potential, I'm expecting them to arrive in NZ relatively soon :)

Yep, water bottles, wallets, ice creams, hairbrushes, toast etc - they've all been falsely identified by Aussie authorities as mobile phones and the grainy images used as evidence prove nothing, but it always seems it's up to the defendant to prove it's NOT a mobile phone apparently...

I am a fan of A Current Affair on YouTube so I've watched many a video of drivers pleading their case - seemingly these people go through hell, sometimes losing multiple court cases/appeals until it's on TV and then all of a sudden the prosecutions are dropped.

Here's one to whet your appetite - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEFgUKLi314

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#3219328 16-Apr-2024 21:55

Imagine if council would do a Tesla-like lightshow... Makes paying rates a little more acceptable 😅

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#3219615 17-Apr-2024 17:21

We have these ‚birds’ sitting on poles everywhere in the city (GER), at least at every traffic junction. Some of them are AI thermal imaging cameras as well and can track cyclists and pedestrians (anonymously only, of course 🤣). They are connected to the 5G mobile network.

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