Incar cameras (Read 1,534 times)

[mike88g]

Sept 18, 2009 23:59:13 GMT 12 @carwrecker said:

I tend to think people are losing sight of the real issue here,
That being that how can something that has been voted against at conference ( the rule making process for our sport) now be OK
Are the wishes of the people being ignored Perhaps for some kind of commercial gain
And yes Macgor I believe that the remit would have passed at conference had Lewis Dawson not got up and said his bit.
In a nut shell I believe that if you don't vote to allow something then you are voting that you don't want it.
Maybe my way of thinking is to simplistic

If you say that this went against the "wishes of the people" , then how could this have been changed at the time? The decisions of the drivers should not have been changed by the delgates because of something said at the meeting. This would mean that it was up to them to decide and not the drivers.
We never even had a meeting about these remits, so our local dirver's input was never included!
(I don't beleive that this present system gives a fair representation of the drivers of the sport. Why could we not have voted ourselves?)

Back on topic:
I think that the system that is currently in place for the use of camera is a good one. The users of the cameras will be known to SNZ and the clubs. I would expect the drivers who use them would be responsible enough to protect and promote the sport with their mages and videos and not bring the sport or any person associated into disrepute.

[grinder29a]

Thats a real shame they have banned those we have one of those oregan things there not the greatest but we have had lots of fun watching people passing us and for the others that help on the car can get a bit of an idea what its like to be in the cockpit,just another dam rule that didnt need touching ,i cant see for the life of me how it could capture a bad accident long enough to be of any good. Totally agree with the other post that we were never asked to vote on that with our drivers meetings we had .I will still use my camera when we race black tracks .

[mike88g]

Please read the following:
www.speedway.co.nz/pdf/Directors%20Meetings/Summary%20of%20Meeting%20169.pdf
They are not banned. You just need to get permission to use them. This is probably just needed to keep track of who has them.

[eddiek]

Sept 19, 2009 7:50:25 GMT 12 Glenn, Ex 269s said:

even if it isnt in the rule book then it should be one of those unwritten rules that any driver/owner would in the 1st instance make the footage of any incident availiable to SNZ or Police, OSH etc at no cost.

Exactly - which is what I did when I caught one which ended up with a driver having to be cut out of the car. Although the footage wasnt needed in the end, it would have provided a good insight for an investigation had things been worse than they were.

Its this reason that makes me wonder what possible logic went behind the call to 'ban' them - when V8SA made them compulsory in their class 2 or 3 years back.

Any professional in any sport who makes images available of a nasty incident would be fairly quickly finding themselves on the outer and this has been known to happen with a still photographer who did something similar a few years back.