Beginning this week, the Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) will use Jeeps as mobile speed cameras that can be moved around the city. For the past month, these mobile speed cameras have been issuing warnings to speeders. Now, they are projected to issue 12 speeding tickets per hour.
“CSPD is introducing new Automated Vehicle Identification System (AVIS) technology in the form of two mobile Speed Safety Camera (SSC) systems,” the police department wrote on Facebook. “While this is new to the City of Colorado Springs, this technology has a proven record of helping to improve roadway safety in cities across Colorado and around the world.”
The mobile speed cameras will “be deployed and strategically positioned in areas with high concentrations of vulnerable roadway users,” the CSPD said. Those areas include school zones, roads bordering municipal parks, neighborhoods, and construction zones…