What’s the point of a limit of 120km/u if you only get fined going above 129? | Verkeerscamera’s flitsen op alle Vlaamse snelwegen vanaf 129 kilometer per uur.
What’s the point of a limit of 120km/u if you only get fined going above 129? | Verkeerscamera’s flitsen op alle Vlaamse snelwegen vanaf 129 kilometer per uur.
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Wow, seriously is this actual journalism?
It’s called tolerances, it applies to your car’s speedometer to the speed camera itself… when your car says it’s going 128km/h it is in reality going about 120km/h as per industry standards, to get a fine another tolerance is applied between your actual speed and the adapted value from the agency (around 10%)
What is the point of this article anyway, that we just need to have quantum based speed measurements on both vehicle and speed cameras or something? Jesus I want to yell at this “journalist” to start spending time on something meaningful instead of brain farts like these…
did you read it? it’s a pretty big improvement on the previous situation. there’s a margin of error and a margin of practicality to consider, this is fine.
Misschien om te vermijden dat sommigen gaan panikeren als ze een flitspaal zien en ipv op het verkeer te letten, enkel naar hun snelheidsmeter kijken? Of nog erger dat ze op hun rem gaan staan als ze toevallig 121 rijden?
It has to do with the technical tolerances of the speed cams. They want to make sure to not have false positives.
The measurements can be off by a few % of the actual speed (due to calibration, external influences, etc).
Nekeer 95 gaat mijn verbruik drastisch omhoog en lost mijne voet interesse.
I agree, what’s the point of a fixed arbitrary number as speed limit on the highway
Instead of replying to all that will come here is a clear explanation of what every article fails to do:
Every measuring device has a margin of error. To account for this margin of error the camera’s will only go off when they measure 129. This is ok.
What the problem is, is that some police departments have too much work and thus they decided that they will only write out the fine once it is above a certain speed (the article mentions 147). This is what is being changed.
Speed cameras are expensive. Using cheaper cameras that don’t detect as accurately means they can afford a lot more cameras.
And idk i’d say it would be rediculous to pay a fine for driving 71 in a 70 anyway. Especially now that more and more ‘verbindingswegen’ turn to 50.
I thought this was basic knowledge