Apparently, in Arizona, people have been taking a rather interesting step to try and get speed cameras thrown out of the state--they're not paying the tickets. And this is leading Arizonan officials to start wondering if they shouldn't just can the entire system. See, there's a whole lot of whammies working against the Arizonan system of red ...

Well, if this isn't either one of the most amazing or most terrifying camera-based news stories I've ever brought you then I'm not sure what is.  Seriously, this is nuts.  Pure-t nuts. See, remember when I told you about the speed camera in England that got necklaced?  As in someone set a tire around it, filled ...

Is this about saving lives or making money? That's the grand universal question when it comes to speed cameras, and frankly, not a whole lot of people have the nerve to ask it.  Well, leave it to the Aussies for sheer nerve, because they just did. An op-ed piece showed up in the Courier Mail not too ...

It's interesting to note that the idea of red light traffic cameras isn't limited to the United States--Australia's got their share of them too. And the word is out from Queensland police commissioner Bob Atkinson that more of them are needed to restrain the rise in traffic accidents on Queensland roads.  Apparently, the last time the ...

Seems like everywhere you look, desperate municipalities are setting out red light traffic cameras in a bid to "reduce accidents", even if it seems more like they're just out to line their cash-starved pockets. And for drivers in the South San Francisco area, it sure seems like that to them, too.  Why?  Because a red light ...

If you'll pardon me a moment of gloating, folks, I saw this coming. Apparently someone, dissatisfied with having their driving behavior monitored by remote, took a tire, set it on top of a speed camera and set it on fire. The camera was destroyed, of course--being the victim of a so-called "necklacing" will generally do that to ...

Bad news for the residents of Miami--you'll be on candid camera starting...well...last week, and the prices for showing up are absolutely HUGE. Dave Barry, one of my personal favorite humor writers (and Dave, on the off chance you actually read this you pretty much got me started in nonfiction writing, so thank you--boogers were your beat, ...

Uh oh...municipalities depending on speed cameras for extra revenue better watch out--the biggest speed camera alert system in Europe is about to hit the United States market. Coyote Systems will be bringing the mini Coyote and the iCoyote app for the iPhone fairly soon.  It's the only traffic camera / red light camera alert system on ...

And if you liked that last article, then chances are you're feeling a lot like the folks in an article I read in the Washington Post about speed camera ticket recipients who are feeling just a little put upon with these tickets. For instance, did you know that contesting an automated traffic ticket in Montgomery County, ...

Here is something for the speedsters who want to avoid a brush-in with the authorities. The Cheetah C50 GPS speed camera comes with 65 unique spoken alerts that can really help you avoid various threats. It can identify various types of cameras which are spread all around the streets to apprehend drivers who often drive ...