Owning & enjoying your ZR-1 - Speeding Cameras, speed traps, speed enforcement - ZR-1 Net Registry Forums

SteelBlueZR1 · 08-08-2012

Has anyone else found that they don't enjoy driving as much anymore, but especially in their ZR-1's, now that we live in a world of constant speed and safety enforcement. On any given day, driving 3 miles to work I pass red light cameras, speed cameras, police speed traps, and poorly timed lights. I have to go out of my way to find certain "special places" to exercise my Z's secondaries, and have lost the enjoyment of driving now that I face constant fines and harassment.

Every Maryland highway has orange barrels/construction and, thus, requisite speeding cameras mounted way up high. Now that tax revenues are down, the state and municipalities have turned to red light and speed cameras to pad their budgets... I for one am ready to go buy a hybrid and just set the cruise at a constant 30mph!

Do my fellow ZR-1 auto enthusiasts feel the pain, or is this just an East Coast thing?

Kevin · 08-08-2012

last time I got pulled over, cop got me at 80 in a 45, he let me go with a verbal warning. never seen a speed camera or a red light camera here.

WARP TEN · 08-08-2012

Hi Bert--
You should come to Chicago. The city already has lots of red light cameras and is planning a raft of speed cameras around school areas--about 200 of them. But our mayor says its not about the money.
An old comedian named Will Rogers once said, "Whenever someone tells you its the principle not the money.........it's the money." -- Bob

vilant · 08-08-2012

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Originally Posted by WARP TEN

Will Rogers once said, "Whenever someone tells you its the principle not the money.........it's the money." -- Bob

Absolutly agree.

SteelBlueZR1 · 08-08-2012

I once went to court on a red light $75 fine, and the judge (based on the statute) told me to pay the $75, since as the owner of the car - I am responsible for it's safe operation, even though my brother-in-law was driving. When I told the judge my bro lived in Israel, he said I have 45 days to make him pay or face loss of my auto registration! Who writes such silly laws?

mike100 · 08-08-2012

They changed the law in CA so they can't collect commissions on the red light cams- it has to be a fixed price contract per pole. Since people pretty much know where the cams are, the revenue goes way down after they catch a few people initially.

There was also case precedent set in L.A. that a rep from redflex has to appear in court to contest a camera ticket. Some cities are losing their *** on the camera intersections due to fixed price contracts and it is expected many cities will be pulling them shortly.

Daniel_Mc · 08-08-2012

No cameras here but the local cops have been known to leave a note in my mail box or just call me on my cell to “slow it down”. However most of the cities are going to them I saw an interesting item at SEMA last year it mounts on the right 2 bolts for the license plate and blocks the cameras view of the last number (or two). It is, or was, completely legal at the time. It blocks the last number since all cameras are mounted at 20 degrees from the spot that they are shooting. Not sure how true that was or how well it worked but it was a neat idea.

Daniel

efnfast · 08-08-2012

I'm still waiting for them to start handing out tickets based on fast you get from toll to toll based on e-z pass time stamps. First time I get a ticket that way will be the last time I use my e-z pass. -Steve

scottfab · 08-08-2012

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Originally Posted by efnfast

I'm still waiting for them to start handing out tickets based on fast you get from toll to toll based on e-z pass time stamps. First time I get a ticket that way will be the last time I use my e-z pass. -Steve

Wait, I thought when I was in NJ they did that. No?

DaveK · 08-08-2012

What's a red light camera?

They started introducing "smart cameras" in England just as I Was leaving. Pass a camera doing a legal speed, nothing. Camera records your licence plate anyway. !0/15/20/30 miles down the road, you pass another cam doing a legal speed. Cam catches your plate and matches to earlier one, maps out the possible routes you might have taken at legal speeds, if you get there before you could have done legally... You get ticketed.

Another take on "Big Brother is Watching".

You guys should all move up here. We even have socialized medicine and disability like you

Dave

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SteelBlueZR1 Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Evergreen, Co. Posts: 346	Owning & enjoying your ZR-1 - Speeding Cameras, speed traps, speed enforcement Has anyone else found that they don't enjoy driving as much anymore, but especially in their ZR-1's, now that we live in a world of constant speed and safety enforcement. On any given day, driving 3 miles to work I pass red light cameras, speed cameras, police speed traps, and poorly timed lights. I have to go out of my way to find certain "special places" to exercise my Z's secondaries, and have lost the enjoyment of driving now that I face constant fines and harassment. Every Maryland highway has orange barrels/construction and, thus, requisite speeding cameras mounted way up high. Now that tax revenues are down, the state and municipalities have turned to red light and speed cameras to pad their budgets... I for one am ready to go buy a hybrid and just set the cruise at a constant 30mph! Do my fellow ZR-1 auto enthusiasts feel the pain, or is this just an East Coast thing? __________________ Bert Rankin 1991 ZR1 Steel Blue / Steel Blue #1029 Haibeck chip, slotted rotors, camber brace, C-beam plates, OBX exhaust, Nitto NT555 tires [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

08-08-2012	#2
Kevin Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: pittsburgh Posts: 4,632	Re: Owning & enjoying your ZR-1 - Speeding Cameras, speed traps, speed enforcement last time I got pulled over, cop got me at 80 in a 45, he let me go with a verbal warning. never seen a speed camera or a red light camera here. __________________ It's not the car, it's the people - Doug Johnson 90 r/r "KEYS ON" nick named "T.L.B"

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WARP TEN Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Lake Bluff, IL Posts: 2,067	Re: Owning & enjoying your ZR-1 - Speeding Cameras, speed traps, speed enforcement Hi Bert-- You should come to Chicago. The city already has lots of red light cameras and is planning a raft of speed cameras around school areas--about 200 of them. But our mayor says its not about the money. An old comedian named Will Rogers once said, "Whenever someone tells you its the principle not the money.........it's the money." -- Bob __________________ 2016 Long Beach Red Z06 #10281 "POPS Z" 1995 Polo Green #409 "WARP TEN"--Haibeck 350/510 package, 4.10s, Hurst, Stock Exhaust with QTP Cutouts --Sold but still running strong 1993 Quasar Blue #161 "HIL KING" --Sold but still running strong, now with more than 120,000 miles 1967 Marlboro Maroon/Saddle Corvette Coupe 300 hp/4-spd --Sold a long time ago ZR-1 Net Registry Founding Member #95 NCM Lifetime Member Favorite Quote--Attributed to Mickey Thompson: "Too Much Horsepower is Almost Enough"

08-08-2012	#5
SteelBlueZR1 Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Evergreen, Co. Posts: 346	Re: Owning & enjoying your ZR-1 - Speeding Cameras, speed traps, speed enforcement I once went to court on a red light $75 fine, and the judge (based on the statute) told me to pay the $75, since as the owner of the car - I am responsible for it's safe operation, even though my brother-in-law was driving. When I told the judge my bro lived in Israel, he said I have 45 days to make him pay or face loss of my auto registration! Who writes such silly laws?

08-08-2012	#6
mike100 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: San Marcos CA Posts: 1,802	Re: Owning & enjoying your ZR-1 - Speeding Cameras, speed traps, speed enforcement They changed the law in CA so they can't collect commissions on the red light cams- it has to be a fixed price contract per pole. Since people pretty much know where the cams are, the revenue goes way down after they catch a few people initially. There was also case precedent set in L.A. that a rep from redflex has to appear in court to contest a camera ticket. Some cities are losing their *** on the camera intersections due to fixed price contracts and it is expected many cities will be pulling them shortly.

08-08-2012	#7
Daniel_Mc Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Pineville, LA Posts: 586	Re: Owning & enjoying your ZR-1 - Speeding Cameras, speed traps, speed enforcement No cameras here but the local cops have been known to leave a note in my mail box or just call me on my cell to “slow it down”. However most of the cities are going to them I saw an interesting item at SEMA last year it mounts on the right 2 bolts for the license plate and blocks the cameras view of the last number (or two). It is, or was, completely legal at the time. It blocks the last number since all cameras are mounted at 20 degrees from the spot that they are shooting. Not sure how true that was or how well it worked but it was a neat idea. Daniel

08-08-2012	#8
efnfast Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Dunbarton NH Posts: 7,392	Re: Owning & enjoying your ZR-1 - Speeding Cameras, speed traps, speed enforcement I'm still waiting for them to start handing out tickets based on fast you get from toll to toll based on e-z pass time stamps. First time I get a ticket that way will be the last time I use my e-z pass. -Steve

08-08-2012	#10
DaveK Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Sudbury, Ontario. Canada Posts: 1,538	Re: Owning & enjoying your ZR-1 - Speeding Cameras, speed traps, speed enforcement What's a red light camera? They started introducing "smart cameras" in England just as I Was leaving. Pass a camera doing a legal speed, nothing. Camera records your licence plate anyway. !0/15/20/30 miles down the road, you pass another cam doing a legal speed. Cam catches your plate and matches to earlier one, maps out the possible routes you might have taken at legal speeds, if you get there before you could have done legally... You get ticketed. Another take on "Big Brother is Watching". You guys should all move up here. We even have socialized medicine and disability like you Dave __________________ 1991 #1516 Black/Black davidmkelly.com "Speed is often confused with insight." - Johan Cruijff