Spotted this odd looking portable device on the Ballarat Freeway in Victoria the other day. Haven't seen it there before, and they've moved it a few kms down the road today.
Some had reported it as a speed camera on Waze, but it's different to your typical fixed overhead cameras. Look a bit like this portable point to point speed camera experimented with in Western Australia?
Hopefully OP is not the one making the video!
Looks like one of the new ones that's looking for seatbelts and mobile phones being used or on your lap ?
Seat belts, mobile phone, unregistered vehicle, speeding - pick your poison.
Mobile phone detection cameras in Sydney look like this
Enjoy your five demerit points and $362 fine 👍
Yeah looks like it. The fact that a mobile phone detection camera is needed in a 100kmh zone is mildly terrifying…
In the trial they were showing photos of a disturbing number of people eating breakfast (like, with a full bowl), using 2x phones, using a phone and an ipad at the same time, etc.
How many hands did they have?
Just drove from Melb to Adel and back. It WAS terrifying to see the number of drivers looking at their phones while driving. Most were in "in traffic", stuck behind a slower vehicle waiting for the next overtaking lane. WTF people.
@GordonD: I can appreciate there’s some nuance to the usage of technology while driving, especially given some newer cars essentially having an XL iPad as their main interface. That said, your comment comes across poorly timed when it’s in response to people using their phones going 100kmh.
Interested in reading ‘actual real research’. Please send through.
@GordonD: I agree with the logic. Lets get rid of all distractions. Car entertainment systems, passengers, roadside advertising/billboards.
defo a mobile point to point camera, they have been testing stactic ones just south of the narrows bridge in perth for months
If it is point to point you need two. Went past it Friday, no other like it it for 100 kilometers.
there is two. one before canning highway off ramp and one just before the narrows bridge
That's not on the way to Ballarat
Please don't say Speed Camera … it is a Safety Camera! .. the way it's re-worded on our GPS
I last checked it was a Revenue Camera.
That's anti safety speech, you need to go to safety prison to learn to be safe.
As much as it probably is about revenue they do work to some extent in reducing speeding. Just look how fast people go when they know there's no cameras, like in the west gate construction zone.
Did you record that on your phone whilst driving?
This is clearly on the passenger side, so I'd sure hope not
Bingo!
Doesn't matter, the enemy will tax you anyway.
https://www.autoguru.com.au/car-advice/articles/can-you-be-f…
I live in Ballarat,
Thanks for the heads up
Does vic (or other states) use mobile phone detection cameras yet? I’m aware qld and NSW do, and the mobile ones look like this.
Yes, and it's one.
It's a mobile phone/seatbelt detection camera. We have them here in QLD.
As others have said it's a mobile phone and seat belt detection camera.
Both hands on the wheel and the strap Across your chest is what you need to not get flagged.
And if your seatbelt IS on but not in the exact correct position prescribed by 'government' then they will fine you anyway.
Both hands on the wheel? What about manual car drivers? They get pinged for changing gears? I don't get this.
The law says at all times except when changing gears and indicating, not sure how they'd prove you weren't doing or about to do either
Are you saying I can’t pick my nose on long drives anymore? What else am I supposed to do then?!
What about all of us who get hay fever symptoms any time of the day ? Puzzled !
see how it blends in with the backdrop
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Wanna see more of these, especially on country roads, get the ferkin idiots off their phones
It's the Western Freeway, not the Ballarat Freeway and they are mobile phone detectors. Popping up in the area frequently. Currently another set up just past the first Melton off-ramp
As mentioned above, it's a mobile phone camera detector. They can also be configured to detect seatbelts.
https://www.acusensus.com/heads-up/
Made by Acusensus (who recently just did an IPO on the ASX)
Spotted similar attachment on overhead gantry sign at Genoa, East Gippsland last week, just in time for holiday season…
Its a machine that beams covid into your eyes.
It's an automatic camera system that takes photos when the software system detects that drivers that drive under the black boxes are on their phones while driving and or not wearing their seatbelts either not properly or not wearing one at alll. Photos are sent to a comm centre where an authorised trained human operator confirms an offence have taken place and will "approve" the photos to be passed through to the system to be printed out as an infringement notice to the address of the registered owner though which it also takes a photo of the offending vehicle's number plate.
Checking for mobile phone use?