Speed Cameras and Their Effectiveness Edward Anderson COMM/215 March 20‚ 2013 Dr. Sawyer Speed cameras in the Washington‚ D.C. metro area are becoming more common every day. Speed cameras in our area are providing added wealth to the communities in which they are placed. Speed cameras are located mostly in school zones and high traffic areas. Most important is the effectiveness speed cameras have on our daily commute; from drivers pressing on their brakes for cameras‚ to allowing traffic
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Washington‚ DC 20001 Dear Mrs. Lanier: Speed cameras and red light cameras‚ we have all gotten them and almost all of us hate them. They are meant to slow us down‚ keep us safe from dangerous drivers and provides enforcement for the law. However is this nuisance really helping? I think not. The cameras are often inaccurate and ineffective. They also require regular maintenance‚ calibration‚ and monitoring adding to their already high cost. Court cases on camera tickets are often one sided‚ making fighting
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Speed cameras are expensive to maintain though‚ this is the only con. When a speed camera is experiencing technical issues it can give inaccurate readings of the speeds of vehicles‚ and sometimes it won’t pick them up at all. Most speed cameras also have a limit of reading how fast a vehicle is traveling. If a car is traveling over a set speed the camera will not pick it up as it won’t have enough time to capture a picture of the vehicle. These cameras lead to a lot of dispute in court because a
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Introduction There are over 5844 speed cameras in the United Kingdom and 2500 of them being mobile speed cameras‚ given that there are 245‚000 miles of road in the country that means that every 40 miles of road has a speed camera on it on average. That is a staggering number of speed cameras on the roads‚ but are they really needed? [JohnHenry.net] The first speed camera was conceptualised in 1905 when a patent for “time recording camera for trapping motorists” [Wikipedia]. But it wasn’t until 1958
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driving a vehicle that is rarely an available path. So to make up for that some people decide to speed‚ but with speeding comes a lot of risk and dangers. Speeding can cause you to get a ticket which is expensive and time consuming‚ increase your cost of insurance‚ put your life and others lives in danger‚ and above all it is against the law. In North Carolina‚ 1 person is killed or injured in speed-related crashes every 22 minutes. The risk of a crash in a 60 mph zone doubles with every 5 mph
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Structure for essay on Speed: This century is witnessing a profound transformation in the nature of business organizations. Driven by new competitive demands and fuelled by an abundance of capital‚ companies have massively rearranged their portfolios‚ adding and discarding businesses to sharpen their strategic focus. The opening of markets‚ global competition‚ widespread industry deregulation‚ and the erosion of trade union power as a result of neoliberalism has created a new context in which organizations
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History of Camera “Photography” is derived from the Greek word photos meaning light‚ and graphein meaning to draw. The word was first used by the scientist Sir John F.W. Herschel in 1839. It’s a method of recording images by the action of light‚ or related radiation on a sensitive material. Alhazen (Ibn Al-Haytham)‚ a great authority on optics in the middle ages who lived around 1000 Ad‚ invented the first pinhole camera. The first casual reference to the optic laws of pinhole cameras was by
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the founder of the Red digital camera system‚ “The camera is arguably one of the most important of all inventions…it is he single tool that has the ability to stop time‚ record history‚ generate art‚ tell stories‚ and communicate messages that transcend language like nothing else ever conceived.” (Red Camera) I agree with this statement and the depth within it. The way it changed art is still unexplainable with its eternal lasting impact. The invention of the camera was completely necessary in order
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How road safety has changed over the years Why Speed Limits Have Changed During the last 100 years speed limits have changed in the UK‚ now in residential areas speed limits are generally 20mph to 30mph and on main roads the speed limit is 40mph. On the motorways the speed limit is raised to 70 mph. The first speed limit was 1865; this speed limit was 2mph in built up areas such as cities‚ towns and villages. This was then raised to 20mph and large fines were put in place for speeding and
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wondered why do we have speed limits? Or maybe you do and you’re the grandma driver that everyone is stuck behind in a no passing zone. Everyone has their own speeds so why shouldn’t you be able to go how fast or how slow you wanted to go. Should we strike down every sign that the government has put up to regulate the speed limit in the thousands of highways around the country? And should we trust the driving ability of each and every person to drive within a reasonably safe speed? People automatically
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