by SammyTheSnake » Sat Mar 10, 2007 12:46 am
I happened to catch this.
It's alarming that there is much disagreement between the US and UK authorities on the accuracy of these devices, and the quotes from the manufacturers were clearly daft, though it's possible they were taken a little out of context.
I remember there was a case a year or two ago in Australia (I think) in which a motorist successfully challenged a charge on the basis that the software used in a speed camera / gun / thingie wasn't open to public scrutiny and was therefore outside of the rules saying all process of law must be open to such scrutiny. I think they eventually persuaded the suppliers to open source their code and found bugs (unsurprisingly, any code more complex than "hello world" *will* have bugs and it takes lots of scrutiny to find them all)
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