Re: inaccurate speed cameras

Eeyore wrote:
|| Brimstone wrote:
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||| Dr Tann said: "The mobile cameras used are not 100% accurate.
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||| "My system can track a GPS phone within half-a-meter of where it
||| is, whereas devices currently on the market can, at best, only
||| track a phone within five metres."
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||| A spokesman for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said: "The
||| officer who operated the camera has since retired.
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||| "Without his verbal evidence, we could not prove the case to the
||| required standard."
|||
||| So the copper had retired, convenient or merely convenient?
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|| So they'd have believed a cop's word over GPS data ?

They would have believed the data from the police mobile camera if the
operator had given verbal evidence. The scientist's invention, and the
claimed accuracy of its data, is a red herring. The CPS simply offered no
evidence and dropped the case.

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Rob


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