msports wrote:Talking about speed trap...
I personally don't understand the way Mr PT in Malaysia doing their work... (it must be in relation with their intellectuality) I've been in most of the developed country, except USA. They do have a speed trap... but the purposed is to educate the motorist and only summon them when they brake the law after been given a warning for a couple of time in few hundred meter to the speed trap location. The reason why they did the speed trap is just to warn the motorist of a dangerous locations or in where often happen an accident. Normally they will put a camera warning sign at 500m, 300m and 200m to the speed trap location to warn the motorist to slow down for safety reason. And when we reach at the location, we can see the policemen when they are in operation (not hiding behind trees or under the bridges) or even be just a speed trap camera. The sign is permanently there, and it was fixed at the lamp post for good visibility.
But, think over the speed trap in Malaysia... what they have been doing is just not other then a punishment without doing an educating approach first. Not all the speed trap area in POI was located at a dangerous location. Not to count that some of the speed limits is just a ridiculous and un-reasonable. To me, Malaysia the speed trap, especially manually operated, is just for the purposed of ROBBING public's money?
It is not an accusation but it is a stupidity!!!
My thoughts exactly.
There's a big difference in setting up traps to deter motorists from speeding along known dangerous stretches and deliberately putting up traps in safe stretches to generate revenue. (I've heard that a percentage of summons collected goes into their funds and they have a quota to meet every month).
My aged and retired father was once fined for "speeding" in a 60 km/h zone somewhere on the expressway near Cheras. He was doing only about 75 km/h, he wasn't familiar with the route and he did not realize that the police were doing speed trap operations. The car he was driving? An old 1985 model, Volvo 240GL, not some posh Merc CLS350!
It was the "saman ekor" type of operation in which the notice only arrives in your post a month later, sometimes for months. They don't post the photo of your car allegedly to be speeding together with the notice. You have to go to the police station and of all things - pay for the photographs to see the "evidence"!
I've also heard that owners of Ferraris often take their cars for a "leisurely drive" towards the F1 circuit on Sunday mornings, blasting the expressway at speeds of 280 km/h and above. Some radar guns can't register speeds over 300 km/h and Mr PDRM will just shrug it off - he couldn't do anything about it. They no longer use the infamous Volvo 850 Turbo stationwagons as these cars had been scrapped a long time ago due to very high maintenance costs.
Once upon a time, the expressway police also briefly experimented with Proton Putras but for some reason discontinued using the Putra. Maybe they were no match for souped up Wiras with 4G63T VR4 engines and anything faster.
What do they have right now for chasing speedsters? Proton Waja 1.6 manual cars with standard suspension and wheels.. he he he...
The German autobahn police would use nothing slower than a BMW 530i for their highway patrolling duties. 
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