Living by a railway, as I do, you tune out the sound of the trains. However, living close to a motorway, you do not as the noise is constant, and insistent.
I think there will be campaigns against the noise of the drones - particularly near the dispatch area. There may be anti-drone missile systems developed - formerly called catapults.
That’s a real pickle.
Manna have been operating for a few years around Oranmore with their drones. Personally I haven't heard anything bad about them but I've not used them myself
i had heard this was debunked; that it was a jar of tomatoes, not pickles.
Tomayto, tomahto.
Once a delivery drone causes damage to someone's house/car, the insurance will shoot up and that will be the end of it. Overhead cables must be a big concern too, maybe most drones aren't big enough to take them down but surely contact would fry the drone and then you have a disappointed customer, delivery capacity is reduced for the night, having to recover the drone/food (must be some kind of offence to leave it there) and an expensive replacement.
That's an issue solved by mapping an area. Specialised work, but not difficult to get done
I'm not quite seeing the logic of the "one crash and it will all get shut down " logic. Have yiz heard about cars at all?
Owen Keegan says he wants to “aggressively restrict” car access and reallocate to cycling and pedestrian facilities
A big insurance payout could see a big increase in premiums for delivery drones (what insurances do they currently have, presumably some cover for third parties but would it cover a business for a replacement drone and loss of earnings if unable to deliver if a drone goes down?). Insurance is a significant cost in operating a car and there is a huge pool of them to spread the cost of payouts over.
There is already insurance for anything airborne and crashes are covered
What a delightful way to spend the afternoon.
On the C3 city bound on M4 and the bus lane is full of private cars.
Nobody doing anything about it.
I take it all back.
AGS are pulling the odd car in for a ticket and giving the rest a lecture.
Buses held up for about 30 minutes, and more and more cars behind joining the bus lane.
Absolutely incredible.
Once the Garda/government pull their heads out of their asses and allow the NTA to get going with bus-lane enforcement, it will hopefully have a big effect on that kind of carry-on. But we all know that will take another few years to get sorted 🙄
Zero tolerance bus lane enforcement….literally for any private car joining before the dotted lines….would be a huge service to dublin. A blitz for a few weeks, fining absolutely everyone, would clear the bus lanes. Add to congestion elsewhere of course, but it’s well past time we continued to pander to the private motorist within the city
It's on the way but it won't be the NTA. Definitely not a few years away. Probably early next year. We're due an update on that.
I would of thought that fitting buses with cameras that take a photo of vehicles in the bus lane would be a simple way of dealing with that particular menace. Buses even have web access so could inform the AGS by email who could instantly issue tickets, while checking tax and NCT compliance, and deal with that as well.
...automating the tasks of AGS like this is effectively admitting the failure of current policing and so not in the interests of either AGS or the DOJ
I would see it as more a case of utilising technology to improve enforcement while at the same time freeing up Garda resources for higher priority policing
I swear I read somewhere before that someone within Dublin Bus/Go-ahead stated that this is already theoretically possible, and that all that's required is a software update? Don't quote me on that however
I think AGS accept the GoSafe process of camera based speeding surveillance. Why would they object to DB taking a picture of a car in the bus lane with GPS and time stamp as evidence and forwarding it to them in real time? It requires them to process it, and ups their detection rate, which cannot be bad from their POV.
One thing worth bearing in mind is that AGS talk a lot about "policing through consent". Essentially it means that they need the cooperation and support of the Irish public to do their job. One of the reasons that AGS don't enforce road traffic offences things like parking on footpaths, speeding, or breaking red lights is that "everyone does it". So many Irish people think it is totally normal (including the AGS) – even though it is illegal. AGS don't want to lose the support of the common people so they selectively enforce the law so they don't rub too many people up the wrong way.
If we started enforcing the laws tomorrow tens of thousands of people would be up in arms, calling their TDs and councillors immediately about AGS abusing their powers etc.
If / when we ever get red light cameras or bus lane cameras we really need to thread carefully to move the national overton window of national perspective of that's acceptable / common practice back within the law. If we issued fines for everyone who broke a red lights tomorrow we'd make too many enemies on day one. We really should consider red light cameras that only issue fines for people who break the light by more than 2 seconds. Then slowly ramp it down to those who broke the light by more than 1.5 seconds. Then down to 1 second etc. We could slowly get people used to the idea of red light cameras and that society is now culturally caring about enforcing laws that we were previously ignoring for years.
Classic Irish attitude, ah sure it was only red for 2 seconds so that's grand.
Going through an amber is breaking the lights, never mind red.
For traffic lights we should bring in the UK system of red, amber, green. Anyone accelerating through amber and red fined immediately. There would be loads of moaning, by people too dim witted to realise they broke the law, and after getting caught 2 or 3 times the lesson would get hammered home and we will finally have safe junctions.
At the nearest crossroads to me the council may aswell remove the traffic lights they are so badly ignored.
Everyone in your traffic scenarios knows exactly what they are doing. The fact that none of them would do it if there was a Garda car sat there tells you that it’s intentional rule breaking based a risk based decision that they’ll get away with it, rather than something that is normalised such that it’s a mindless behaviour. And so, no, I do not believe that that is a reason for AGS to hold back
We had to switch off the red light cameras as Gardai couldn’t keep up with the number of prosecutions arising
Oh I think it's absolute nonsense too. I'm just telling you what AGS think and what approach you might need to get them on side. Also don't be shocked if the general Irish public don't agree with either of us and would rather stick with the status quo of "ah sure it's grand, don't be making a fuss about that now"
There was a time when it was impossible to find even an illegal place to park. It got so bad that the Corpo had to introduce clamping to get a grip on it. Clamping and towing suddenly happened all over Dublin where cars were parked on yellow lines and those that did not pay for parking.
It suddenly became no problem to find legal parking and no need to park illegally anymore. Of course you had to pay for the parking.
Lesson: - enforcement works very well if the enforcement is 100% effective and not the 'Bus lane day' type of 'enforcement' when a huge effort is put in for one day and then ignored afterwards. We have had 'Slow down day' every year with no long term effect.
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