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Traffic Blues - RTE1 - May 31st

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  • #302
    bigass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭bigass


    nice guy always wrote: »
    Ya but the members could have been a bit more professional!! At least looked at the law books before heading out!!!

    ''A day with nice guy''........emmmm it has a ring to it!!

    true they wouldnt have being my first choice.

    I know a few from traffic that would have came across a bit more professional.

    Considering your traffic, did you not consider or request to appear!!!!


  • #303
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,263 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    nice guy always wrote: »
    ''A day with nice guy''........emmmm it has a ring to it!!

    And now we see Nice Guy replying to a post on boards.ie. Next week, Nice Guy starts a thread.


  • #304
    bigass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭bigass


    foreign wrote: »
    And now we see Nice Guy replying to a post on boards.ie. Next week, Nice Guy starts a thread.

    The following week, Niceguy takes over the world!!!


  • #305
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,263 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    bigass wrote: »
    The following week, Niceguy takes over the world!!!

    It's gone from a reality show to science fiction now!


  • #306
    Hooch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,957 ✭✭✭Hooch


    foreign wrote: »
    It's gone from a reality show to science fiction now!

    Not that far from fiction 4....start with the district....take over division......region........the then the force!!!!

    mah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa


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  • #307
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,263 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    nice guy always wrote: »
    Not that far from fiction 4....start with the district....take over division......region........the then the force!!!!

    mah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

    May the force be with you...


    ..I'll get me coat.


  • #308
    bigass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭bigass


    foreign wrote: »
    May the force be with you...


    ..I'll get me coat.


    Pick me up on the way, Im the girl with the Hi-vis.lol


  • #309
    Irish_polizei
    Closed Accounts Posts: 805 ✭✭✭Irish_polizei


    Sully wrote: »
    Never knew you could operate a speed check at cars not travelling directly in front of the speed camera. Always thought thats how the machines operated - by pointing in the direction of the car is travelling (front facing) rather then at the back as it passes!
    yeh the work by the basis of laser hitting de car and de length of time it takes to travel back to the device is the distance and then it divides the distance by the time to give the speed !!!:rolleyes:


  • #310
    DubMedic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,249 ✭✭✭DubMedic


    bigass wrote: »
    Pick me up on the way, Im the girl with the Hi-vis.lol

    Shouldn't be too many of those.:p

    .


  • #311
    bigass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭bigass


    DubMedic wrote: »
    Shouldn't be too many of those.:p

    .


    LOl..theres still me!!! I'm a force in myself:p


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  • #312
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,071 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    Irish_polizei wrote: »
    yeh the work by the basis of laser hitting de car and de length of time it takes to travel back to the device is the distance and then it divides the distance by the time to give the speed !!!:rolleyes:

    Are you serious?!? My god, you learn something new everyday! You should become a teacher, you would be a great asset to any school and educate the children very well. Especially when you roll your eyes up at them for getting something that is so bloody obvious to you. *clap* You will go far.

    Since 99% of the examples of speed checks are with cars travelling against them, rather then away, it is a safe assumption to make that is how the devise actually works. To add to that, since the car is moving against you the laser travelling could be viewed different to that of when a laser is pointed at the rear of the car. I personally think that a laser pointing at the front of a travelling vehicle would provide more accurate results, but obviously it can do either way.


  • #313
    gerire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,589 ✭✭✭gerire


    Sully wrote: »
    Are you serious?!? My god, you learn something new everyday! You should become a teacher, you would be a great asset to any school and educate the children very well. Especially when you roll your eyes up at them for getting something that is so bloody obvious to you. *clap* You will go far.

    Since 99% of the examples of speed checks are with cars travelling against them, rather then away, it is a safe assumption to make that is how the devise actually works. To add to that, since the car is moving against you the laser travelling could be viewed different to that of when a laser is pointed at the rear of the car. I personally think that a laser pointing at the front of a travelling vehicle would provide more accurate results, but obviously it can do either way.

    http://auto.howstuffworks.com/question396.htm
    " A laser speed gun shoots a very short burst of infrared laser light and then waits for it to reflect off the vehicle. The gun counts the number of nanoseconds it takes for the round trip, and by dividing by 2 it can calculate the distance to the car. If the gun takes 1,000 samples per second, it can compare the change in distance between samples and calculate the speed of the car. By taking several hundred samples over the course of a third of a second or so, the accuracy can be very high. "


  • #314
    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,071 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    gerire wrote: »
    http://auto.howstuffworks.com/question396.htm
    " A laser speed gun shoots a very short burst of infrared laser light and then waits for it to reflect off the vehicle. The gun counts the number of nanoseconds it takes for the round trip, and by dividing by 2 it can calculate the distance to the car. If the gun takes 1,000 samples per second, it can compare the change in distance between samples and calculate the speed of the car. By taking several hundred samples over the course of a third of a second or so, the accuracy can be very high. "

    Thanks. I always had a good idea of how it worked, but for some reason I thought it couldn't work if the vehicle was travelling the opposite direction because of how the vehicle was travelling against the laser rather then away from the laser, helping it report back!

    I saw the TS on one of the slip roads going to Dublin before and queried how they were going to pull over traffic considering its on the other side of the road, but it was cleared up from TheNog earlier in this thread for me about doing it against vehicles travelling the opposite direction.

    Good technology though, and rules out peoples theory that "Ah ill be grand, just keep an eye out for them ahead of me".


  • #315
    Irish_polizei
    Closed Accounts Posts: 805 ✭✭✭Irish_polizei


    gerire wrote: »
    http://auto.howstuffworks.com/question396.htm
    " A laser speed gun shoots a very short burst of infrared laser light and then waits for it to reflect off the vehicle. The gun counts the number of nanoseconds it takes for the round trip, and by dividing by 2 it can calculate the distance to the car. If the gun takes 1,000 samples per second, it can compare the change in distance between samples and calculate the speed of the car. By taking several hundred samples over the course of a third of a second or so, the accuracy can be very high. "
    Yes something like that....I was close enough...laugh out loud...(apparently its a breach of boards.ie law not to use "text speak")


  • #316
    DubMedic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,249 ✭✭✭DubMedic


    bigass wrote: »
    LOl..theres still me!!! I'm a force in myself:p

    That's the reason they hired you sure.

    .


  • #317
    DubMedic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,249 ✭✭✭DubMedic


    Is everyone ready for yet another high-octane , death defying , crime-ridden episode tomorrow night ? :pac:.

    And no , that was not referring to a night out on the beers for the ES forum.:rolleyes:

    .


  • #318
    bigass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭bigass


    DubMedic wrote: »
    That's the reason they hired you sure.

    .

    That and the good looks!

    Yeah looking forward to another drunk driver .. and wait for it...they might break into a chase....Na dont build yer hopes up!!! lol

    Think I'll need to have a few to watch it!!!


  • #319
    DubMedic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,249 ✭✭✭DubMedic


    bigass wrote: »
    That and the good looks!

    Yeah looking forward to another drunk driver .. and wait for it...they might break into a chase....Na dont build yer hopes up!!! lol

    Think I'll need to have a few to watch it!!!

    Female gardaí can be really nice!.

    Wait.. I think your onto something here.

    Are you actually suggesting there might be another drunk driver on Traffic Blues? :eek:.

    I think we're in for a good episode so!:rolleyes:.

    Never mind the beer , traffic blues is mind-numbing enough.

    .


  • #320
    bigass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭bigass


    DubMedic wrote: »
    Female gardaí can be really nice!.

    Wait.. I think your onto something here.

    Are you actually suggesting there might be another drunk driver on Traffic Blues? :eek:.

    I think we're in for a good episode so!:rolleyes:.

    Never mind the beer , traffic blues is mind-numbing enough.

    .

    Can be nice, oh we are!!!

    The big count down is on, better head off and get the popcorn in!!!


  • #321
    da__flash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 430 ✭✭da__flash


    that was the best one ever :pac:
    a young driver was cautioned for driving to close to a bus this reviviting stuff :eek:


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  • #322
    donvito99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭donvito99


    da__flash wrote: »
    reviviting stuff :eek:

    Reviv...rehv...revi...reve...rivivivviiting...wha?


  • #323
    Spartan09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 243 ✭✭Spartan09


    ScubaDave wrote: »
    I did!

    How the hell did she get that??


    Why would a student not be allowed to wear a short sleeved hi-vis jacket? Would that be the same for a Reserve Member?


  • #324
    Random
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,080 ✭✭✭✭Random


    Why is Garda T207 standing on the side of the M1 closest to the driving lane without a high viz jacket on?

    Why are the gardai standing out in a traffic lane on a Dundalk ring road without high viz chatting to a camera?


  • #325
    donvito99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭donvito99


    Spartan09 wrote:
    Why would a student not be allowed to wear a short sleeved hi-vis jacket? Would that be the same for a Reserve Member?

    I'd think that to get this jacket the mountain bike course woulld need to be done, and a student or reserve would not do this.


  • #326
    Spartan09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 243 ✭✭Spartan09


    ScubaDave wrote: »
    I did!

    How the hell did she get that??
    da__flash wrote: »
    that was the best one ever :pac:
    a young driver was cautioned for driving to close to a bus this reviviting stuff :eek:


    Yeah that bit really had me on the edge of my seat. Although saying that it is very irritating (and dangerous) for someone to be driving right up your backside on a road, come to think of it it really really bugs me.


  • #327
    donvito99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭donvito99


    Random wrote: »
    Why is Garda T207 standing on the side of the M1 closest to the driving lane without a high viz jacket on?

    Why are the gardai standing out in a traffic lane on a Dundalk ring road without high viz chatting to a camera?

    Was it dark on any of these occasions?


  • #328
    Random
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,080 ✭✭✭✭Random


    donvito99 wrote: »
    Was it dark on any of these occasions?
    No it wasn't but I would have thought high viz would have been the preferred option regardless?

    Would this not be standard procedure?


    ++ edit
    In the scene where they're trying to take the drunk driver out of the car Neil Delamere (looks identical!!) there's no high viz in use - but nighttime isn't the point - surely it should be all the time?


  • #329
    donvito99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭donvito99


    Random wrote: »
    Neil Delamere (looks identical!!)


    Good spot...

    287.jpg

    Back on T, they should have been wearing H-Viz, the regular uniform provides almost no visibility what so ever.


  • #330
    Spartan09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 243 ✭✭Spartan09


    donvito99 wrote: »
    I'd think that to get this jacket the mountain bike course woulld need to be done, and a student or reserve would not do this.


    Was thinking about this yesterday, seen a member directing traffic in 25 degrees of heat in short sleeved high-vis and further up the road another member in a full high-vis jacket who was slowly baking alive. Why would the short sleeved jackets be for bicycle unit members only, maybe its just me thinking in a common sense way but with occasional searing heat would it not make sense to make short sleeved high-vis available to all members


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  • #331
    Random
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,080 ✭✭✭✭Random


    Shortsleeve high-viz for everyone. Fecking heavy duty high viz is a joke. No wonder they're not wearing them when they get out of the car if they're so much effort.

    ****

    The Gardai have too much patience. An hour to get someone out of the car? Ten mins they should have taken him out. They're too nice sometimes.


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