In the City of Los Angeles, the court says that they can no longer use red light cameras to give people tickets. In some states you are not allowed to use a radar detector, and you have to leave yourself open to police with radar so they can check your speed. In Canada there is new technology being used which senses the amount of sound that your vehicle puts out, and it will take a picture of your license plate and mail you a ticket if you are over the maximum allowable decibels.
And just when you thought you knew about all the technologies that exist, and all the automated systems used for traffic enforcement and traffic law, along comes something new. In fact, I hate to be the one to break the news to you but there is a new Laser tailgate ticket technology coming out, and it may be in a city near you soon. Moral of the story is; don’t follow too close because you might get a ticket in the mail.
There was an interesting article in Homeland Security Newswire recently, published on June 28, 2011 titled; “New radar gun spots tailgaters” which stated;
“Tailgating is a dangerous practice causing a high number of fatal highway accidents, yet law enforcement agencies have struggled to effectively enforce the law as they lacked the proper equipment to document and prosecute violators; without definitive proof, cases involving tailgating were difficult to win in court, but a Colorado based company may have sold this problem; Laser Technology Inc. (LTI) has developed a device it calls Distance Between Cars (DBC)”
Whereas, it is true that following too closely and not leaving the proper separation between vehicles is a dangerous situation and an accident waiting to happen, there are also situations when you are on a busy freeway when someone cuts in front of you while driving at 70 miles an hour, all of a sudden they have jeopardized your safety and their own, and now you are in the car behind, so you are theoretically tailgating. One could say; “No, they are nose gating” – which is probably true, but guess who gets the ticket.
And if a picture is taken of your vehicle too close to another vehicle, then it really is your fault. If you rear end someone from behind, generally the way the traffic courts see it, it is that it is your fault, regardless of what the other car might have done, such as slammed on their brakes – because you are supposed to leave a safe distance to enable yourself to stop. Nevertheless, I hope you will be on the lookout for these new Laser tailgate ticket technologies, and take that into consideration before following too close at an unsafe speed.
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