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Comment My town is loaded with them (Score 1) 335

Speed cameras are a joke. I drive past 5 of them on a daily basis along with 2 red light cameras. Speed cameras produce a safety bubble. People slow down way under the speed limit when they pass them and speed back up as soon as they are out of the line of sight. It is $75 if you get pinged going 12mph over.

My town had a big controversy over one camera where the road went from 40 to 25. It was making a lot of money on this major thru road from one county to the other. They moved it a block down so people could slow down, still gets a lot of people.

Best one was when they installed one right off I-95 and 90% of my co-workers got multiple tickets within the first week of it being active.

Mobile speed cameras are also fun. I got good at spotting the white SUVs randomly parked in the construction zones on the side of the road that could take a photo of any lane.

OH and my town also has FAKE speed cameras! Yes they randomly move a fake camera box around and place it in locations that real ones are not allowed to slow down traffic.

Comment They already exist so what is the deal? (Score 1) 496

The side view cameras are on cars already. Half the comments here act like this is science fiction.

My 2014 Honda Odyssey has a camera on the passenger side mirror and also has the back up camera. When I turn on my right hand turn signal, my large display in my center console shows the video feed. I also can turn on the camera anytime with a click of the button. The video feed has "perceived" distance lines on it so you have some idea how far an object is away.

The downfall to cameras is mother nature. Sun glare, water and mud on the lens, and snow build up. I wish they had a wiper on the rear camera, it always has water on it. The side mirror just has issues when the sun angle is just right, seems like that has less problem with water because of the angle. The fear of ice build up or snow could be fixed by heating the camera like most side mirrors do these days

Nice thing about the cameras is lack of blind spots. I can see things with the back up camera that I can not see with a rear view mirror since it is low to the ground.

Comment Reading the clipboard is even more evil (Score 1) 353

Yeah, adding stuff to the clipboard is nothing new. You could do it without a prompt in browsers in the past with a couple lines of JavaScript. TinyUrl does it with IE. I was always worried about a script that could read what is on the clipboard and send it to some host server. Target your competitor and see if you can get sensitive data!

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