gatso do they just go off anyway

[hanse cronje]

got flashed at beddingham on the a27, its a 40 and was well below, both gps and speedo, so do these things just have a flash mode to make everyone think the ers are on and working all the time

[turbobloke]

They can flash for 'no reason' (fault), or if set up to detect traffic coming at them face-on (was there any traffic going the other way?) and there's a fault which makes them go off if they get vibration from a HGV, was there a HGV nearby? GATSOs doncha just love em

[hanse cronje]

yes it was reasonably busy, there was no way i was over, i was so pissed off, i missed the turning for newhaven and drove to eastbourne, 38 mile round trip

[streaky]

turbobloke said:

They can flash for 'no reason' (fault), or if set up to detect traffic coming at them face-on (was there any traffic going the other way?) and there's a fault which makes them go off if they get vibration from a HGV, was there a HGV nearby? GATSOs doncha just love em

IIRC, Gatsos are not certified for on-coming traffic - Streaky

[james_j]

Yes, they have been shown to flash erroneously, in fact there may be thousands of people with money extracted from them and points given who were under the limit. There have been threads on this recently.

[turbobloke]

streaky said:

turbobloke said: They can flash for 'no reason' (fault), or if set up to detect traffic coming at them face-on (was there any traffic going the other way?) and there's a fault which makes them go off if they get vibration from a HGV, was there a HGV nearby? GATSOs doncha just love em IIRC, Gatsos are not certified for on-coming traffic - Streaky

You're probably right. Nobody has sent in any definitive reports of receiving a NIP from a forward facing GATSO flash, but this is such a common occurrence that the use of dummies (radar and flash but no film) to do this trick is widely known. When it first happened to me - a 'delayed' flash as I was overtaken at speed one evening - it temporarily blinded me and I complained to the local gatso shop. They said that being temporarily blinded was less risky than not flashing speeding cars

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turbobloke said:

They said that being temporarily blinded was less risky than not flashing speeding cars

They said that ??

Their comment has got to be one of the daftest statements I've heard in a long time...

Idiots

[njw 77]

There's a gatso about 500 yards from my house, facing down the hill towards the house. Ive set it off several times going back up the hill with no NIPs (the road markings are all on the downhill side)

Im sure I read somewhere that Gatsos occasionally flash to re-calibrate themslves, or something like that

Mind, I may have just made that up