AggieArchitect04 said:
No idea, but check out this bull*****..
https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2025/01/14/new-system-can-catch-cite-speeding-drivers-without-officer-interaction/Yeah, I'm sure that's the goal asshat.Quote:
Vojvodich had his deputies set up the system alongside San Pedro Avenue near Bitters Road Monday morning. Within a one-hour period, it had detected 340 speeding drivers. The goal of using the system, Vojvodich said, is to educate the public.
txags92 said:
Just go to court, request a jury trial, and ask for your constitutional right to confront your accuser. Then if a cop shows up to play the role of accuser, ask if they were there on the day and time you are alleged to have been speeding.
Anything is possible in front of a jury that doesn't like speed traps. I am actually guessing these will probably suffer from the same flaw as red light cameras where it will be a civil citation that people can just ignore.AggieArchitect04 said:txags92 said:
Just go to court, request a jury trial, and ask for your constitutional right to confront your accuser. Then if a cop shows up to play the role of accuser, ask if they were there on the day and time you are alleged to have been speeding.
Could that really work?
toucan82 said:Gunny456 said:
They have traffic engineers and they usually set it by numbers of accidents, sight distances, entrance or exit ramps etc. My neighbor in SA used to do that for the state and counties.
So unelected bureaucrats. I'm glad we're done with that *****
Gunny456 said:
They have traffic engineers and they usually set it by numbers of accidents, sight distances, entrance or exit ramps etc. My neighbor in SA used to do that for the state and counties.
I remember back in the mid 90s the toll roads had been granted the ability to set their own speed limits above 55. They allegedly did a traffic study on the Hardy Toll Road to find the 85th percentile speed and found the median (50th percentile) speed was something like 83 mph. I never heard what the 85th percentile was, but based on my experiences driving it back then, it had to be close to 90.PDEMDHC said:Gunny456 said:
They have traffic engineers and they usually set it by numbers of accidents, sight distances, entrance or exit ramps etc. My neighbor in SA used to do that for the state and counties.
I'm impressed someone on the GB knew about this. Tack on 85th percentile speed and speed maps and you got a stew going.
PDEMDHC said:toucan82 said:Gunny456 said:
They have traffic engineers and they usually set it by numbers of accidents, sight distances, entrance or exit ramps etc. My neighbor in SA used to do that for the state and counties.
So unelected bureaucrats. I'm glad we're done with that *****
The word you are looking for is engineering consultant
IIIHorn said:
And, why are the speed limits not stated in furlongs per fortnight?
Then why isn't it 70?Burdizzo said:toucan82 said:
The speed limit should be 69
Lol
The speed limit is 68 because if you go 69 you eat it.
(ask me for more junior high jokes)
That is mandated by the EPA/TCEQ. When I was in college it was even a bigger difference. It was 55 and changed to 70.The Kraken said:
I think it's weird that Hwy 6 is has a 75mph limit in Grimes County, but turns to 65 in Waller County Weird since the area south of Navasota has way more curves and hills than the portion closer to Hempstead. Some of that traffic coming home to Houston after a night football game can be a little crazy along that stretch with vehicles going 75+.
Like I said above, same thing applies to the change from 65 to 75 crossing the Brazos from Waller into Austin county going west.JJxvi said:That is mandated by the EPA/TCEQ. When I was in college it was even a bigger difference. It was 55 and changed to 70.The Kraken said:
I think it's weird that Hwy 6 is has a 75mph limit in Grimes County, but turns to 65 in Waller County Weird since the area south of Navasota has way more curves and hills than the portion closer to Hempstead. Some of that traffic coming home to Houston after a night football game can be a little crazy along that stretch with vehicles going 75+.
Waller County is in an "eight-county Houston/Galveston/Brazoria clean air non attainment area" where the speed limit is lowered to fight higher levels of smog/ozone in those counties, while Grimes County is not.
