Mobile Cameras in the Dark

[smeggy]

Thanks Peter.

PJS917 said:

All I was told by a chap who sells radar and gps camera detectors……..

but not laser detectors/jammers?

PJS917 said:

………was that some of the Talivans use reflective light technology

sounds an awful lot like Lidar to me.

PJS917 said:

I know my laser detector has never picked up a single talivan around these parts.

Be thankful for that. Lidar (laser) detectors don’t give an early warning; your speed will already have been measured before you can even react to the alarm.
Perhaps you have been driving slow enough such that the operators decided not to ping you? Perhaps the talivans were carrying just ANPR equipment?

[timtonal]

mybrainhurts said:

That twirp from Cumbria was on here a while ago, bragging that he had new kit that works in the dark....

Wants to increase sleep-related accidents y'know!

[bluepolarbear]

The only non detectable forms of speed measurement is Vascar (eg time/distance solutions) and Trevelo/DS2 (eg piezo electic detection).

They are both undetectable because they do not emit anything to be detected.

Your laser detector is unlikely to go off as despite claims as to the operating distance of a laser the actual scamera van will not be working at more than a range of 400m. At this distance the beam diverage is aimed correctly is unlikely to hit the detector.

[james_j]

smeggy said:

Lidar (laser) detectors don’t give an early warning; your speed will already have been measured before you can even react to the alarm.

Not necessarily your speed. Maybe someone elses, or perhaps just yours plus a few. and (As long as the detector wasn't wobbled more than the width of a human hair.)