| ▲ | shawn_w 5 hours ago |
| So you can do it without your image being captured by the camera? |
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| ▲ | stavros 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| The camera doesn't have a 360 field of vision, besides COVID masks aren't uncommon now. |
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| ▲ | bigiain 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Where I am (Sydney Australia) we have fixed speed cameras that automatically create speeding fines to drivers going too fast (well, technically the registered owner of the vehicle via ANPR). They eventually had to equip pretty much every speed camera with a speed camera camera, usually on a much higher pole to make vandalism more difficult. | | |
| ▲ | terminalshort 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | This will never be a thing in America. Good luck putting the camera on a pole higher than a redneck can shoot a rifle. | | |
| ▲ | andwur 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Sounds like a new remit for the NRO. Park a billion dollar satellite over an area to keep an eye out for petty vandalism. Then the sheriffs office can team up with Space Force: papers will be served immediately by LEO MIRV deployment, which may also count as execution depending on visibility and aim on the day. /s - but it wouldn't surprise me at the rate things are going. | | | |
| ▲ | etrautmann 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | We already have speed cameras Al over NYC. Often the posted speeds there are 25 leading to some absurd tickets. |
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| ▲ | stavros 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Oof, I really hate this automated enforcement. Might be time to get a paintball gun. | | |
| ▲ | seanmcdirmid 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | And this is the reason I can’t wait for self driving cars that just follow the speed limit. | |
| ▲ | appplication 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Tbh an overpowered laser off alibaba probably works a lot better at longer range | | | |
| ▲ | staringforward 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > Might be time to get a paintball gun Just wait until you find out that paintball guns are considered firearms are require licensing in the aforementioned region. | | |
| ▲ | zoklet-enjoyer 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I played paintball in Australia and I just had to sign a normal waiver about them not being responsible for injuries | | |
| ▲ | andwur 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Ownership of paintball guns is regulated under the state-level firearms act in most (all?) states and territories. You can use them under the direct supervision of the licensed owner, but it's still quite restrictive. If you were to take one and shoot at cameras on the street it would vandalism plus firearms offences, most of which start at inversion of innocence, massive fines and move pretty quickly into prison time. |
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| ▲ | lotsofpulp 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | What else could make life safer at a realistic cost for people outside of vehicles? | | |
| ▲ | redwall_hp 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Urban planning that separates pedestrians and vehicles. Roads that are narrow in places where a lower speed is desirable. Heavy taxation on vehicles with more mass and lower visibility. Actual licensing standards other than driving down a couple of city streets and parking. More crossings, with lights or bridges, instead of long four-lane arterial roads with nowhere to safely cross. | |
| ▲ | stavros 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Where I live, the speed limit keeps getting reduced so the city can make money off of fines, especially because nobody follows speed limits that are ridiculously low for wide, straight roads where following the limit would make traffic ground to a halt. |
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| ▲ | dsl an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | When Flock helps you lay out camera placements they make sure camera pairs are facing each other. | |
| ▲ | nozzlegear 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | If you want to hit the lens with the paintball gun, wouldn't you need to be in its field of vision? | | |
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| ▲ | dyauspitr 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Drones with a paintball gun attached? Realistically that’s going to attract a lot of negative attention. |
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| ▲ | BuyMyBitcoins 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | The use of a drone also ups the ante from a prosecutor’s perspective. Charging a vandal caught with a paintbrush and a ladder is nothing out of the ordinary. A routine misdemeanor. Someone who has the wherewithal to jerry rig a paintball gun to a drone is someone scary. Plus, any officer who witnesses such a drone is almost certainly going to misidentify the paintball gun as an actual gun. I can imagine the operator would be charged with several felonies. | | |
| ▲ | AngryData 22 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Yeah like we gotta be serious here, US cops and courts are out to screw people over because that is how they increase their budget, pay, and bonuses. If they think they can twist some law into giving you a felony, they will, regardless of the spirit of the law. Attaching any kind of potential weapon on a drone has no real precedent so they can dig through 19th century law and combine it with some 21st century law and punishment and screw your life over with bull crap unless you got $100K+ sitting around to throw on a good lawyer. The risk of being caught may be a bit lower, but the potential punishment if caught could be absolutely enormous. |
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