Speed Camera Vans
Discussion
Speed Camera Vans are much in evidence in my local area, and have 'gonged' me twice in the last six months. Cycling past one recently I stopped, tempted to harangue the operator, but he disarmed me with politeness and then demonstrated his particular system to me - I learned a couple of useful things:
1. Although the camera system constantly records, it only measures speed when the operator pulls a trigger - he did this and gonged someone while I watched. Details on a memory card and off to the local ticket issuing office pronto.
2. The camera only operates out of the side and rear of the van - not the front. Owing to focus & field of view constraints it only seems capable of measuring one carriageway at any one time.
While these insights aren't much help on single carriageway roads (where I was done on both occasions) there is a definite lesson for motorways and dual carriageways when these vans lurk on bridges - the operator is very likely to be concentrating on the outer lane (where all the usual suspects congregate).
Move back into lanes two or one whenever possible and you are much less likely to be nicked. All the morons round here who think they 'own' the outer lane and never move out of it are much more at risk. Schadenfreude!
1. Although the camera system constantly records, it only measures speed when the operator pulls a trigger - he did this and gonged someone while I watched. Details on a memory card and off to the local ticket issuing office pronto.
2. The camera only operates out of the side and rear of the van - not the front. Owing to focus & field of view constraints it only seems capable of measuring one carriageway at any one time.
While these insights aren't much help on single carriageway roads (where I was done on both occasions) there is a definite lesson for motorways and dual carriageways when these vans lurk on bridges - the operator is very likely to be concentrating on the outer lane (where all the usual suspects congregate).
Move back into lanes two or one whenever possible and you are much less likely to be nicked. All the morons round here who think they 'own' the outer lane and never move out of it are much more at risk. Schadenfreude!
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