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Originally Posted by one five five
Why is it you are so keen to blindly accept DJRTP saying there wasn't an infringment, yet won't accept Race Control saying there was an infringement?
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In all modern sports, there is always a question of human element.
I know this as an AFl umpire, yes I missed some, made a to call to quickly ,
saw only half of the incident, but generally umpired the game in the spirit of things.
Like the NRL, the cowboys excepted they didnt play the best in one grand final, but how many tackles can you have.
If you know QLD, north bound from Bris there is a speed camera. It had a horrid history of picking speeding cars in the south bound lanes, but picture, cars in the northbound lanes.
Interesting court case over a period of time, the woman was never cleared of speeding, just the unit wasn't calibrated or the operator wasn't trained correctly. It cost a lot of dollars , no fine , but never cleared of supposed speeding.
If you hang out in Vic, there is a point to point (Supercars system) that catches ppl out . It uses the , distance x time system.
That is if u are doing the speed limit all is good, but if you hit it hard, then try to slow down,sad, you have exceeded the time, thefore you where speeding.
All DJRTP want to know, is this:
Supercars supply the unit in the cars. ( remeber Ambrose and some extra wires)
Supercars installed the system on the circuit
Supercars also have volunteers(CAMS Officials) , who have completed the course on RadarGun operation.
Is there a fault with the unit in the car, is there a fault with the readings or settings.
If you are a team owner in a controlled equipment series, and you got pinged, wouldn't you like to know which piece of equipment wasn't working correctly.
They bang on all the time about this , and the great Tim, said, we can tell by the telemetry what a car is doing ..
I myself don't have a side in this.
Do we go back to stop watches, men in white coats, or do we go forward and use electronic systems.
To me , I would go with modern equipment, sensors, light beams, point to point, take out the finger on the radar gun, making pit entry a tadd longer to slow down, unlike govt roads, where you do 100k's , but as soon as you exit, jump on the brakes to 60 ks or less
but thats my view