Traffic cameras go on the defensive
by radioball - January 7, 2009 10:00pm
It’s been a full year since the traffic camera presentation that had Mayor Lukes all sorts of giddy and not much has been spoken of the citys plans to implement them in that time. However there is no doubt the city is covered with them, it’s just hard to tell if they’re even on. Well that functionality will be a moot point in a few months if Cobra Electronics has anything to say about it. The company just announced a few new members in their radar detector family which will alert drivers to the presence of the revenue generators public safety tools in the sky.
Cobra Electronics has taught its radar detectors a new trick: they also detect red light cameras and speed cameras.
The Chicago company does this by maintaining a database of intersections known to have red-light cameras and stretches of road with speeding cameras. The database currently has more than 5,000 intersections, speed camera locations and popular speed traps. But it’s being updated twice a day by Cobra employees who are tasked with finding and verifying new locations by calling various cities, police departments and local businesses near major intersections. Due out in the spring, the detectors are priced from $389 to $439, depending on the model.
Anyone want to throw out an over/under for the time it will take the state legislature to ban these? For your own good, of course.
