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Gardaí get up to speed with new road camera technology

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  • #32
    jackhammer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92 ✭✭jackhammer


    Traumadoc wrote: »
    If you look at the mess the m50 cameras have caused with incorrect plate reading, you can only imagine the number of vehicles that will be stopped because the machines misread the number plates

    That won't happen. Even if the ANPR mis-reads the plate, it displays on screen what it thinks is the number registration. If it doesn't tally with what the garda can see for himself, then he's hardly gonna pull him over.


  • #33
    Traumadoc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭Traumadoc


    In moving traffic theres no way the guard can look at the machine then compare the reg with the vehicle thats just past him/her.
    They should really try it out first before they spend hundreds of thousands on equipment.

    The statement by the super was less than convincing.

    Asked would the new equipment be better at reading number plates partially obscured by dirt and mud, regional traffic superintendent Ken Brennan said “there is a good possibility” it would.


  • #34
    Whitewater-AGS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 315 ✭✭Whitewater-AGS


    Traumadoc wrote: »
    In moving traffic theres no way the guard can look at the machine then compare the reg with the vehicle thats just past him/her.

    Thats what the observer is for, I've seen the system in action it works fine.


  • #35
    Traumadoc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭Traumadoc


    Whitewater-AGS wrote: »
    Thats what the observer is for, I've seeb the system in action it works fine.

    So does e-voting:rolleyes:


  • #36
    shakin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭shakin


    crimecall sort of launched anpr last night gave a working demonstration,seems pretty good,there will be a few in sligo at the rally this week. i truied rte.ie but i dont think they put episodes online though


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  • #37
    Eru
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,357 ✭✭✭Eru


    Traumadoc wrote: »
    If you look at the mess the m50 cameras have caused with incorrect plate reading, you can only imagine the number of vehicles that will be stopped because the machines misread the number plates- perhaps they should only buy one and trial it before they waste money on a system that may not work.

    They were already on trial and accepted this the 100 thats been bought and fitted.

    The M50 reg plate fiasco was not all the cameras fault. In fact it was only a few mistakes but once the papers ran the story everyone started chancing their arms and other people forgot they had used the toll when they had.

    A good point about it (besides how much smoother and faster the m50 is) was the amount of supposed 'scrapped' cars, supposed 'off road, non use' cars and false plates that have been caught going across the toll and thus followed up with cars being seized, declarations for non use on tax applications being caught as bogus and people using false and altered plates.


  • #38
    cushtac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭cushtac


    Traumadoc wrote: »
    If you look at the mess the m50 cameras have caused with incorrect plate reading, you can only imagine the number of vehicles that will be stopped because the machines misread the number plates- perhaps they should only buy one and trial it before they waste money on a system that may not work.

    ANPR has already been trialled and found to be reliable, that's why it's being bought.


  • #39
    Traumadoc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭Traumadoc


    As long as it has been shown to be effective I think it would be a good idea.
    There may be less need for garda checkpoints, for instance
    My concerns were that the system would have a high false positive rate.

    With regard to the M50 I know of a women in her 70s who has been sent demanding letters athough she has been nowhere near the m50. ( cloned plate?)


  • #40
    Eru
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,357 ✭✭✭Eru


    Traumadoc wrote: »
    As long as it has been shown to be effective I think it would be a good idea.
    There may be less need for garda checkpoints, for instance
    My concerns were that the system would have a high false positive rate.

    With regard to the M50 I know of a women in her 70s who has been sent demanding letters athough she has been nowhere near the m50. ( cloned plate?)

    Possible allright though that would be the rarer option. Possible someone messing with their plates, you know like a zero turned into an 8 and that kind of thing.

    Always amazes me how peoples cars seem to be very clean but that damn mud is just attracted to the back reg plate :P


  • #41
    donvito99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭donvito99


    Ive seen boy racers using the black screws in cheeky positions turning 3's into 8's etc as Eru said.

    Edit: Obviously not as they were putting them on!


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  • #42
    donvito99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭donvito99


    We also now know that it is confirmed that the ANPR computers will be able to speed detect, which is obviously good on a slow insurance, tax, NCT days. The more gizmos the merrier.


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