How smart are speed cameras?

[bill bob]

Does anyone know how smart speed cameras are? Say on a normal twin carrageway A class road where the national speed limit is 60mph; would a camera know the difference between a HGV with a speed limit of 40mph or a car and trailer/caravan with a speed limit of 50mph or a solo car with a speed limit of 60mph?

It's just that today I saw a HGV get flashed on the A146 Loddon bypass and I'd guess its speed at 45 - 50.

Bill Bob

[cptsideways]

They are set up either with road mounted vehicle sensors or the Radar level is raised to only see the taller vehicles, to catch HGV's doing 40.0000001 mph on A roads

Ones are the A303 at Wyle are set up to catch trucks especially the east bound one

[Who me ?]

Gatso's in certain parts of the country are being set up to catch HGVs, and certain SCP are advertising the fact .This bit (link from the ABD site )shows how it's true -(out of the scammers own web site)


http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/Web/corporate/pages...

[Red Devil]

http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/Web/corporate/pages...

"Speeding is the biggest single contributory factor of road accidents..."

How many more times are we going to see this lie perpetuated? It appears TWICE in that one article!!

It is quite obvious that the tactic of officialdom is to repeat this mantra ad nauseam so that eventually enough people will accept it as a given.

[Boosted LS1]

cptsideways said:

They are set up either with road mounted vehicle sensors or the Radar level is raised to only see the taller vehicles, to catch HGV's doing 40.0000001 mph on A roads

So we're talking Gatso's then. Do truvelo's make any distinction in vehicle weight?

[cptsideways]

Boosted LS1 said:

cptsideways said:

They are set up either with road mounted vehicle sensors or the Radar level is raised to only see the taller vehicles, to catch HGV's doing 40.0000001 mph on A roads

So we're talking Gatso's then. Do truvelo's make any distinction in vehicle weight?

Gatso's definately not sure about Truvelo

[SLCZ3]

bill bob said:

Does anyone know how smart speed cameras are? Say on a normal twin carrageway A class road where the national speed limit is 60mph; would a camera know the difference between a HGV with a speed limit of 40mph or a car and trailer/caravan with a speed limit of 50mph or a solo car with a speed limit of 60mph?

It's just that today I saw a HGV get flashed on the A146 Loddon bypass and I'd guess its speed at 45 - 50.

Bill Bob

Well lets put it this way they cannot pass Key stage 1, so how smart is that.
Gatso cameras have problems with large vehicles, due the area of the large suface area e.t.c.

Edited by SLCZ3 on Thursday 29th November 11:49

[RegMolehusband]

"Speeding is the biggest single contributory factor of road accidents..."

To be fair, that article is dated 2004. However if you see any of these nasty little organisations providing misleading information then just get on to the Advertising Standards Authority website and fill in an online complaint. It takes 15-20 minutes. But put forward a convincing argument.

[Who me ?]

To correct the record - I did put out Warks position - nothing more /less - in case RED thinks otherwise.
AFAIK -in
[/quote]most Cams are set up to get maximum cash --that means hitting HGV ABOVE 40 .

SO BEWARE.