FRANCE GETS FIXED POSITION SPEED CAMERAS !!!!!!

[Web Watcher]

France has just got its first fixed position speed cameras. France has had mobile radar and laser traps for years, and most people know they have the odd crack down on "timings" between toll booths on the motorways, but now France has got the equivilant of a Gatso camera.


I know it's in French, but check out......


www.france3.fr/semiStatic/385-1275-NIL-270502.html

.... and then click on the picture of the video camera just below the main picture to watch the video....



Also check out.....

www.moto-net.com/p_article.php?RefArticle=432


For translation use......

www.worldlingo.com/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html



For a Map of where the cameras are.....

www.interieur.gouv.fr/rubriques/c/c2_le_ministere/c21_actualite/2003_10_24_radars/1_Carte_Routes_France.pdf



Do the french have "points" and if so do they count in the UK???


Web Watcher.

[robp]

One more step towards an EU license where points are transferable between different countries......

Cant believe its Frances first camera......will be interesting to see how they react!

[dazren]

I'm sure I'll be in agreement with the french farmers on this issue.

DAZ

[streaky]

robp said:

One more step towards an EU license where points are transferable between different countries. ...

I suspect that the proposed EU Driving Licence (aka EU Identity Card) will have space on the chip for points. It will probably be trackable by satellite too (that's a *small* joke ... at this stage) - Streaky

[Le TVR]

Yes its bad news. They have apparently ordered about 1000 cameras to be installed before next spring.

But there were already some before 'dispositif fixe existant' on the map. Now the old ones are being linked to the central computer too.

Fortunately I cant see any on the map within 300Km of here

[Apache]

I can't imagine the french lying down and taking a shafting like we do over this, it's gonna be expensive

[Don]

Hmmmmn.

[crap frrrensh accent]
Le Captain?

L'homme de Angle-grinder?
[/crap frrrensh accent]

[rich 36]

As i recall, it was little short of the French army actually pulling a frog truck to pieces that halted a blockade not long ago, so it shoulden,t take more than enough rope tyo dislodge a few le scamera' should it?

[deltaf]

Well that scameras gonna last all of about 5 minutes....its not even up in the air!
Mind you, if the french equivalent of Le "capitain Gataso" gets his way, itll most likely be about 300 feet in the air before coming down in bits all over the place....know what i mean?

[chief-0369]

deltaf said:

Well that scameras gonna last all of about 5 minutes....its not even up in the air! Mind you, if the french equivalent of Le "capitain Gataso" gets his way, itll most likely be about 300 feet in the air before coming down in bits all over the place....know what i mean?

Planning a short day trip to france are we

[PlenumPete]

From the camera distribution map it appears that the 'central administrators' in Paris have a bit of a downer on the Lyonnaise! Lyon has completely disappeared under a thick blanket of cameras, whereas Paris and the environs - have none.

A few weeks back I was passed by a very tasty TVR Griffith on the A8 northbound near Aix-en-Provence, making very rapid progress. Anybody here? Looks like autoroute fun time may be coming to an end.

Dave

[deltaf]

chief-0369 said:

deltaf said: Well that scameras gonna last all of about 5 minutes....its not even up in the air! Mind you, if the french equivalent of Le "capitain Gataso" gets his way, itll most likely be about 300 feet in the air before coming down in bits all over the place....know what i mean? Planning a short day trip to france are we

Might be an idea......

[italiano]

We've tried taking the cameras out down here in Australia. Thing is now they have security cameras watching over the speed cameras.

I can deal with the speed cameras, you can remember where they are. It's the the cops that sit there with radar guns that you have to watch out for.

[rich 36]

cameras, to watch camera's eh WTF

[italiano]

I'm serious, people have been trashing them (god knows we've all thought about it).

[JMGS4]

France has the points system as well, EU conformity and all that... the EU Governmentnasties expect to have the international "points tot-up" in effect in 2004!!!! i.e. collect in F or D and get it on your GB license!!!!!
so watch it fellas.................

[206xsi]

see www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=64573&f=23&h=0

The first camera lasted 2 days

[Web Watcher]

The NEW French "Gatsos" are supplied by a company called "Sagem" (www.sagem.com) and the equipment inside is called the "Mesta 208" which uses "K band" radar.

Some of these French cameras point at approaching cars others take photos of the rear. This will effect the range a camera is picked up by a Radar Detector.

WARNING: Radar Detectors are HIGHLY illegal in France and result in a big fine, even if the device is in the boot!!!

If you have a BEL 966 remote, they won't see your the detector, BUT I think the French police have "Radar Detector Detectors". You may or may not know Radar Detectors give out a very small amount of radar themselves, because they compare the incoming signal to the one they generate, when the two signals match..... Beep,Beeep, Beeeep, etc. etc.

Web Watcher.

UK GPS in France??????