Gatso question...

[jayjay]

I heard that the two round vents on the back of the housing are closed then the carmera isn't live.

Have been practicing approaching at "normal operating speed" and checking how close I can get to Gatso before seeing the vents and deciding if to brake or not. At the moment I brake. Just wondering if I need to keep on braking...

[hugerr]

You could always get radical and drive at the posted speed for the road.

It would save all that eye strain looking for closed gatso portholes and allow your brakes to cool down a bit...

H

[turbobloke]

hugerr said:

You could always get radical and drive at the posted speed for the road

[strange concept] eh? [/strange concept]

[swilly]

hugerr said:

You could always get radical and drive at the posted speed for the road. It would save all that eye strain looking for closed gatso portholes and allow your brakes to cool down a bit... H

I find the environment I'm driving in has a natural speed limit that you feel and unconsciously drive to.

Ever tried doing 50 mph on a clear dry motorway. It feels near impossible for any great length of time.
80mph is a natural relaxed motorway cruise speed, 100mph for a more involved drive.

30mph on a typical high street fits nicely, 15-20mph on a residential street with two way traffic and parking both sides feels right.

When the posted limit is less than this natural limit for the environment, you tend to find speeders. Strange that eh.

May explain why lots of roads suddenly have inexplicably lowered limits combined with Scamera's going up.

[Pigeon]

jayjay said:

I heard that the two round vents on the back of the housing are closed then the carmera isn't live.

I'd take that with a bucketload of salt if I were you... its blend of illogicality and too-good-to-be-true-ness stink of urban myth to me.

[deltaf]

The two holes on the back arent vents. Theyre anti vandal covers for the main locks.
If theyre open then it just means that the service man forgot to close em.
That particular myth has been doing the rounds for years, and its still bollox...

[will crash]

Absolutely correct Deltaf, these are just covers for locks on the Gatso.
Still on the subject of speed cameras, it would appear that the Met. Police ARE going to purchase digital mobile speed cameras in the very near future and ditch the LTI 20-20........