Amazing the resources they put into road traffic, but everything else seems to be a one day festival of the gards posing for the camera walking on a train or standing on a street
Gardaimus Prime
I remember seeing something similar on ‘Road wars’ years ago.
Hopefully will be successful.
Cameras would be a whole lot easier
They can use it to chase the young lads on e-scooters
I thought is was going to be fitted out with some sort of AI linked high tec cam that can record and report drivers all at once.
But, no.
>From their higher vantage point, gardaí will be able to see into cars to check for mobile phone use, a lack of seat belt or other signs of distracted driving.
Anyone who works with HGV’s will be able to spot the gardai in this from a mile away. Every company knows every other company and there are very few independents. Unless they get a Tirlan milk bottle for the back of it.
Oh good, so they can see people on their phones better while they do nothing about it.
They will have to travel with a swarm of motorbike guards deployable from a ramp aty the back of the trailer.
Michael Healy Rae on Newstalk.
He’s agin it.
Any cyclist commuting into work in town will see and pass 20+ drivers on their phones while driving in rush hour traffic. If they genuinely want to crackdown on phone use while driving why not just send a few plainclothes gardai cycling past drivers in heavy traffic with a camera on their helmet? Would presumably be a lot cheaper than buying a HGV cab.
Obviously this would not work for catching people using their phone on the motorway etc., but would certainly work to catch large amounts of drivers not watching where they are going and breaking red lights in traffic.
Just sit on a bus
There’s a mountain of low hanging fruit that doesn’t require a HGV
I feel like there should be more traffic police in our towns and cities… It makes more sense and actually protects vulnerable people walking about.
While they tackle the scourge of distracted driving, dublin dissolves further into a crime and drug ravaged hellscape.
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Amazing the resources they put into road traffic, but everything else seems to be a one day festival of the gards posing for the camera walking on a train or standing on a street
Gardaimus Prime
I remember seeing something similar on ‘Road wars’ years ago.
Hopefully will be successful.
Cameras would be a whole lot easier
They can use it to chase the young lads on e-scooters
I thought is was going to be fitted out with some sort of AI linked high tec cam that can record and report drivers all at once.
But, no.
>From their higher vantage point, gardaí will be able to see into cars to check for mobile phone use, a lack of seat belt or other signs of distracted driving.
The Brits were doing this *years* ago!
https://preview.redd.it/kylc6yllgq1d1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a7692179d314c48139072bbad3dcc510bcf0fa0d
If it’s just the higher vantage point they need they can save a load of the taxpayer’s money.
This way is much more green, fuel efficient and cost effective.
Obviously
Gardai already have a Volvo tractor unit that drives up and down the m50. It’s easily spotted as it has no fifth wheel.
Wouldn’t a few guards on bikes work better? Oh, or can’t the poor things ride a bicycle?
Easy to spot as they have no trailer…
[https://fleetworld.co.uk/hgv-supercabs-start-two-week-m25-patrol-to-catch-dangerous-drivers/](https://fleetworld.co.uk/hgv-supercabs-start-two-week-m25-patrol-to-catch-dangerous-drivers/)
This works very well in the uk.
Anyone who works with HGV’s will be able to spot the gardai in this from a mile away. Every company knows every other company and there are very few independents. Unless they get a Tirlan milk bottle for the back of it.
Oh good, so they can see people on their phones better while they do nothing about it.
They will have to travel with a swarm of motorbike guards deployable from a ramp aty the back of the trailer.
Michael Healy Rae on Newstalk.
He’s agin it.
Any cyclist commuting into work in town will see and pass 20+ drivers on their phones while driving in rush hour traffic. If they genuinely want to crackdown on phone use while driving why not just send a few plainclothes gardai cycling past drivers in heavy traffic with a camera on their helmet? Would presumably be a lot cheaper than buying a HGV cab.
Obviously this would not work for catching people using their phone on the motorway etc., but would certainly work to catch large amounts of drivers not watching where they are going and breaking red lights in traffic.
Just sit on a bus
There’s a mountain of low hanging fruit that doesn’t require a HGV
I feel like there should be more traffic police in our towns and cities… It makes more sense and actually protects vulnerable people walking about.
While they tackle the scourge of distracted driving, dublin dissolves further into a crime and drug ravaged hellscape.
Another low hanging fruit….