oh fael boat...

no worries.. moving on

The various new cameras have been gazetted for use for a long time now. Any "new" system is LIVE when it's on the roadside as far as I am concerned.

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Any truth to the rumours that you can tell a Trapped intersection by a big white square in the middle of it?

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If anyone sees any Poliscans out and about this weekend can you please let me know?

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More testing of Poliscans at the top of Plain St near the police station this morning. V1 still didn't pick up anything but I doubt it was operating as their were about 7 or 8 blokes with bright vests standing around it :P After i did a 3rd pass past it they started giving me some odd looks...

Operating Poliscan at the top of Plain St East Perth! My V1 picked it up with good range when approaching from the front. Almost no detection at all when coming from the other direction... Go test all your detectors now!

Did you happen to notice whether there were vehicle in the opposite lanes as you went past? I'm thinking that without a surface to reflect the opportunity for scatter is very little. Amazing that if the detectors can't get the reflected scatter - how does the Poliscan?

If you assessment is correct , there in lies my biggest concern. No detection in a reverse direction effectively means that 50% of the time we will be driving "blind".

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I drove past it today and got very little warning with the V1 - approximately 100m from the front and 20m from the rear. They were messing around with it again though, one of the units had its cover off and they were tinkering with the optics.

I decided not to bother going past more than once from each side as they were messing around with the unit and the location isn't very good for testing purposes being on the crest of a hill. I would've liked to see better performance from the V1 but it looks like most tests will be inconclusive until the police start using the Poliscans properly.

Thanks for the heads up Cosmo

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Well just had my opportunity at the Plain Street site. Would agree that the reverse detection is minimal if close to nothing until you go past the device. On the three occasions I went past in the reverse direction there were no other vehicles in either direction to get bounced or scattered laser.

Forward facing is a little better at approx 100m. However, I'd suggest the incline on the road would mean the laser beam would be going over the top of the vehicle until your very close. The large wall/fence (old cemetery) would also possibly block laser transmission. I did three passes , one with the V1 higher on the windscreen which actually reduced the detection distance it seemed (but not by much).

I don't think the site is beneficial for longer distance detection in comparison to the other test near UWA.

As such, I don't think further tests at Plain St will get any better detection and look forward to a more real world "more level" site. However, my conclusion is that we are going to be running blind on at least 50% of the time being when you pass a Poliscan faced in the reverse direction. I also suggest that the operators will be using every tactic to limit detection by placing on corners, on top or the bottom of inclines and utilising the reverse set-up.

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So we're stuffed then?