OT: Speed Cams

[James Lee Bell]

der.hans wrote:
> [1] The photo radar flashes can cause a white out effect on the driver
> when they go off. This is a huge problem for motorcyclists as it blinds
> them for a second and worse blinds the car drivers near them[3]. I have
> even had my cabin white out due to a photo radar flash at dusk while I
> was on an access ramp waiting to get on the freeway. My eyes are just
> fine. Photo radar flashes are unsafe.

I realize we're shutting this thread down, but I had to reiterate this
one point of der hans: Those flashes make it just as unsafe as the
speeders tripping them. That one on west-bound I10 at the end of the Sky
Harbor runways has flashed in my eyes twice (others tripping it). The
first time nearly incapacitated me with immediate onset of migraine
headaches. I didn't make it to the 51 interchange before I had to pull
over and puke my guts out. The location is right after the merge from 17
split, so the conscientious driver is monitoring the mergers, looking in
that direction towards your mirror, and bang. Can't help but wonder what
that might do to landing pilots too.