Say Cheese, The Photo Radar Might Be Taking Your Picture!

Conventional speed enforcement has its limitations. You can only pull over one vehicle at a time. This method is unproductive, slow and expensive from the government's point of view.

So now technology has developed to the point where different ways have been cleverly created to give out tickets quicker and less expensively.

The old system of traffic enforcement simply wasn't doing the job of making the kinds of money our government wants to make.

This was because there were too many components involved. First they needed to have the police officer to pull you over. This involves the use of an expensive police car. Then there was no guarantee the officer wouldnt let you go with a warning.

And maybe the final factor was that in the time it took for said police officer to pull you over and write the ticket dozens more drivers go speeding by! Money lost down the drain.

Introducing photo radar... the government's latest scheme to generate more money, all in the name of safety. Within minutes, a photo radar machine can catch dozens of drivers on a single stretch of road. These radar cameras literally do the jobs of several cops.

With photo radar also known as traffic cameras, speeding tickets are simply mailed to the offender. Talk about customer service!

Since its' beginning, photo radar has been proven to: Save police department's time and money. Improve conviction rates in traffic court. Maximize city resources available for traffic enforcement. Increase individual insurance rates.

There are little more than twenty states or so that use this method of photo radar to hand out speeding tickets, but its presence is on the rise.

The photo radar is growing in popularity simply because of the points stated previously.

Cities are starting to latch on to the photo radar band wagon because of the revenue generating potential. Its relatively simple for a city to have one installed and the photo radar pays for itself quickly.

Photo radar can give a financially troubled city an almost immediate injection of revenue.

Just think about it, within a short time a photo radar can take pictures of many speeding motorists, what it would take many officers to accomplish traditionally.

How does it work? Photo radar, as the name suggests, is a combination of a camera coupled with a radar gun. The two work together. The radar gun is preprogrammed to function at a particular speed.

For instance say the speed limit of a particular road is set at 45 mph, the photo radar can be set to activate if it detects a speed over 50 mph.

So when the photo radar unit detects a car passing it at a speed over the predetermined speed it will take a picture of your plate. This picture is stored and the process keeps going on 24/7. Courtesy of big brother, bundreds of drivers can be ticketed this way.

On the following day the photo radar pictures will be accessed and gone through by several people.

The first thing they will look for is the license plate. If it is blurry or simply unclear, the picture will be disposed of and the next one will be examined.

When a clear license plate is found it will be run through the bureau of motor vehicles database to see who it is registered to. If its a male and there is a male behind the wheel of the car, BINGO, a citation will be on its way to the registered owner. Ah the beauty of photo radar.

This process is repeated with the next picture and so on until all available photos have been examined. Photo radar enforcement is on the rise, hopefully this article will give you a heads up about it.

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