Speed Camera Testing Video

Prince George's County Maryland has established an Automated Speed Enforcement Program. This Program includes the use of speed monitoring systems which photograph speed violations in designated school zones and designated Institution of Higher Education areas. Prince George's County will start operation of its Automated Speed Enforcement Program with a 30-day warning period beginning on August 22, 2011. The location of the first Speed Enforcement System(s) will be within the 8400-9000 block(s) of Allentown Road at Issac Gourdine Middle School and Tayac Elementary School. In accordance with State Law, beginning on September 21, 2011, Prince George's County Maryland will issue $40.00 civil citations to vehicles that exceed the posted speed limit by twelve (12) miles per hour or more.

Prince George's County intends to use speed monitoring systems in the established school zones associated with locations listed below:

• Issac Gourdine Middle School and Tayac Elementary School, within the 8400-9000 block(s) of Allentown Road
• Montpelier Elementary School: 9000-9200 block of Muirkirk Road
• Rosa Parks Elementary School: 5700-6300 block of Ager Road
• Northwestern High School/St. Marks Elementary School/University of Maryland (Institute of Higher Learning): 7600-6900 block of Adelphi Road
• Clinton Grove Elementary School: 9400-9700 block of Temple Hill Road
• John Baynes Elementary School: 6900-7400 block of Walker Mill Road
• Ardmore Elementary School/ Herbert Flowers High School: 9100-10000 block of Ardwick Ardmore Road
• High Bridge Elementary School: 6800-7100 block of High Bridge Road
• Barnaby Manor Elementary School: 1800-2400 Owens Road
• Arrowhead High School: 2100-2600 block of Sansbury Road
• Vansville Elementary School: 11600-11900 block of Old Balitmore Pike
• Chillum Elementary School: 5400-6100 block of Sargeant Road
• Columbia Park Elementary School: 6700-7100 block of Columbia Park Road
• District Heights Elementary School: 2100-2400 County Road
• Duval High School/Robert Goddard Middle School/Catherine Reed Elementary School: 9800-9900 block of Good Luck Road
• Friendly High School: 9800-10000 block of Allentown Road
• James Harrison Elementary School: 8300-8600 Contee Road
• North Forestville Elementary School: 2200-2500 block of Ritchie Road
• Oakcrest Elementary School: 800-1100 block of Hill Road
• Phyllis E. Williams Elementary School: 000-800 block of Harry S. Truman Drive
• Princeton Elementary School: 6100-6400 block of Auth Road
• Tall Oaks Vocational: 2000-2300 block of Church Road
• Thomas Pullen Elementary School: 500-1100 block of Brightseat Road
• Thurgood Marshall Middle School: 4600-5600 block of Brinkley Road
• William Hall Elementary School: 5000-5300 block of Marlboro Pike
For further information, call the Prince George's County Police Department,
301-772-4958

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[BIEmpireTrooper]

Lollygaggle is such an idiot and is a police shrill from the Uk police

[lollygaggle]

@warondriving Where is this 'plenty of data'?

[lollygaggle]

@ArizonaSean Equally, breath test kits do not measure the velocity of vehicles.

[JRock005]

THey don't even work. Once people find out where they are, they slow down. Then beginning speeding again when they are out of range.

[ArizonaSean]

How about you fat asses get out there and do your jobs. Cameras don't stop drunks or reckless drivers.

[warondriving]

We have plenty of data and information that proves these speed cameras are not only inaccurate but also make roads more dangerous due to driver distraction.

[teuben]

@speedcheetah this slip effect was also referred in the recent AAA announcement. It's very simple. We have weather data, they can give us the data (time of day, location, and speed) and one can do simple statistical tests to get an idea if indeed there are on average more violations when the windspeed was higher. Let us have access to this data, I'll happily do the analysis.

[teuben]

The police department needs to learn a little bit more about statistics. At around 3:00 they ramble. Remember, 1 + 1 is not 2 in statistics, it's square root of two (1.4) for two independent errors as in this case. Also, the variance is not the right word to be used here, but accidentally the officer is correct the variance is 2, but not 2 miles per hour, but the square of that. I know, perhaps nitpicking, but statistics are not your grandmothers numbers.

[speedcheetah]

So, now that you have been made aware of this problem of the "slip effect," I am sure you will want to do the decent thing and suspend this camera operation until you have had the chance to have the system independently scientifically verified.

[speedcheetah]

Failing to test for this well known, real world problem would be tantamount to culpable negligence. If the slip effect is proven to be the problem with this system, there is no way of knowing which tickets are affected, so it calls every ticket into question. This would result in a class action lawsuits for the refund of every single ticket ever generated by the camera system and that would have devastating consequences for both the program and your future budgets.