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Showing posts with label Speed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Speed. Show all posts
Saturday, 30 March 2013
Monday, 17 September 2012
Three Ontario cities listed among top five speed trap locations in N.A.
WAUNAKEE, Wis. -- A recent public poll conducted by the National Motorists Association (NMA) has found that three Ontario cities are among the worst speed trap locations across the US and Canada. Windsor, Hamilton, and Mississauga rank third, fourth, and fifth, respectively, in the Worst Speed Trap Cities category for cities with populations greater than 50,000. Flower Mound, Texas and Livonia, Mich. Ranked number one and two in the same category.
Not surprisingly, Ontario took the top spot in the Worst Speed Trap States and Provinces category, with Nova Scotia coming in second. The province faring best with voters was Quebec, coming in 52nd place out of 53 states and provinces.
The NMA analyzed the most recent five years of data from its Web site, The National Speed Trap Exchange, which lists tens of thousands of chronic speed traps in the US and Canada and includes descriptive commentary about each listing.
To develop the rankings, the NMA calculated the total number of affirmative votes across speed traps in a given community and then indexed the total to the community’s population size.
For its part, the NMA condemned speed traps as typically combining “arbitrarily low speed limits with heavy traffic enforcement designed to generate ticket revenue. While the intent may be to modify driver behaviour long-term, that is rarely the result. Speed traps keep springing up in the same locations, the issuance of tickets flows unabated, and there is no material effect on traffic safety. That is why the NMA advocates for increased speed limits in chronic speed trap areas supported by traffic studies and proven engineering principles.”
To see the full list of rankings, visit here.
Wednesday, 29 August 2012
Ontario to appeal speed limiter ruling
TORONTO, Ont. -- The province of Ontario will appeal a recent Justice of the Peace ruling that the province’s speed limiter law is unconstitutional, the Canadian Press reports.
Reports say the province will argue commercial truck drivers can drive with “due care” at speeds of 105 km/h or less.
It will also contend that the Justice of the Peace in the Gene Michaud case relied on the testimony of witnesses who were not qualified as experts.
More information is available here.
Sunday, 26 June 2011
Smart Phone Truckers: Speeding Tickets? Protect your Rights with My Max Speed
My Max Speed™ documents your rate of speed by geo-location every 5 seconds to accurately confirm your speed at the time of a citation or need.
Iconosys announces the release of My Max Speed™ for smart phones – a speed monitoring app to encourage safe driving and protect consumer rights.
With My Max Speed™, users log their rates of speed every 5 seconds they are in travel. Among other uses, this information is valuable for drivers who want to review their driving speeds and confirm they are
driving within the safe legal limits.
The data is stored in a spreadsheet, compatible with Microsoft Excel, and is exportable in batches or in 5 minute data snapshots, covering a specific instance. Inside the spreadsheet display in the app, each speed recording can be tapped to display the exact physical location in a map format.
“There are hundreds of reasons to run My Max Speed on your smart phone. We expect many will help protect drivers’ rights while others will make the roads safer. For example, our children are more apt to drive slower/safer if they know there is a chance that I will be checking their speed reports,” commented Wayne Irving, CEO.
Additionally, app users pulled over for driving over the speed limit can confirm in an instant that their rate of speed matches what the law enforcement officer reports. In some cases this may save the consumer hundreds of dollars in the event that the law enforcements method of capturing the rate of speed is flawed.
In other cases, secondary offenses may be cited, where as the consumer may be pulled over for speeding and cited for something else. This includes but is not limited to infractions like; seat belts, proof of insurance and others. Having proof that speeding did not occur can impact other citations the driver may be exposed to.
Features:
The large display shows rate of speed in large format, showing you your highest rate of speed in past five minutes of driving/travelingStore rates of speed every five seconds in a spreadsheet formatStore speed snapshots in five minute segments for evidentiary purposesExport speed reports to Excel, Word, Power Point or other softwareTap on the spreadsheet sheet display in the app on any specific speed instance and get a daytime map Send your speed reports to another thru email and or share on FacebookThe scenario:
In New York, an officer discovers that the driver is driving without a seatbelt fastened but cannot pull over the driver because driving without a seatbelt is a secondary offense. The officer decides to pull over the driver and gives driver a ticket for speeding and the unbuckled seatbelt. Thankfully, driver is using MY MAX SPEED™ on a regular basis and has logged his maximum speed at that time. Driver goes to court showing proof of driving under the legal limits and gets all charges dropped.
States where texting while driving is a secondary offense include: Iowa, Nebraska, New York, and Virginia. Officers who discover drivers’ texting cannot pull them over unless the driver commits a primary offense.
In 2009, speeding was a contributing factor in 30 percent of all fatal crashes, and 12,628 lives were lost in speeding-related crashes. The economic cost to society of speeding-related crashes is estimated by the NHTSA to be $28 billion per year. Speeding is a deliberate and calculated behavior where the driver knows the risk but ignores the danger. Fully 90 percent of all licensed drivers speed at some point in their driving career, and 75 percent admit to committing this offense regularly.
My Max Speed™ us available for free in an ad-supported version, and or $4.99 in an ad-free version from the Android Market or from www.iconosys.com
About Iconosys, Inc.
Iconosys, the maker of the world renown DriveReply™, Trick or Tracker™, and Tell My Geo™ is develops technologies and technology driven products for it’s clients with a goal to design apps to enrich, enhance, make safer our day to day lives. Iconosys also develops both client-side and server-side applications that, it believes, will be unique and trendsetting and are designed to fit the time-sensitive, constantly evolving needs of today’s and tomorrow’s consumers. Iconosys and its client-side app development team are specialists in developing Smartphone and tablet optimized solutions.
To see a cross section of some of Iconosys catalog of Smart Device apps, from your Smartphone browser: http://apps.iconosys.com ,from your computer browser: http://iconosys.com/product.php
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