'Intelligent' speed cameras.....
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New type of Scamera?
www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/londonnews/articles/17767402?version=1
Speed cameras can 'talk' to track you down
By David Williams Motoring Editor, Evening Standard
7 April 2005
A new "intelligent" speed trap is set to catch thousands of drivers in London.
Groups of cameras will track cars over a wide area - such as a housing estate - instead of "flashing" them at just one spot.
Designers say it will be impossible for drivers to outwit them by slamming on their brakes as the cameras record each car's number plate and "talk" to each other via radio-wave technology.
Computers then calculate how fast the vehicle was travelling between each point. If a driver is found to have been speeding they will be fined ?60.
Road safety campaigners today hailed the new system that will rigidly enforce speed limits in 20mph zones.
But motoring groups said it would be powerless against the rising number who drive illegally by refusing to register their cars. The system is being pioneered by Transport for London in Camden from next month.
In a year-long experiment two cameras will be placed at either end of Mansfield Road, which has a 20mph zone. Fines will not be issued until the scheme has Home Office approval.
If successful it will be used across London. "The aim is to see how and if the technology works - it is not to gauge the effect on motorists yet," said TfL.
"It is one of a range of ideas we are looking at to tackle speed in sensitive areas such as residential roads.
"At the moment the only option to slow people down is to use hard engineering techniques such as humps, which many people do not like. This is one possible option and we want to see how it works."
Paul Smith, of the Safe Speed campaign, said: "Authority's obsession with speed cameras is not improving road safety and it has to stop."
However, safety organisation Road-Peace said it welcomed the trial.
www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/londonnews/articles/17767402?version=1
Speed cameras can 'talk' to track you down
By David Williams Motoring Editor, Evening Standard
7 April 2005
A new "intelligent" speed trap is set to catch thousands of drivers in London.
Groups of cameras will track cars over a wide area - such as a housing estate - instead of "flashing" them at just one spot.
Designers say it will be impossible for drivers to outwit them by slamming on their brakes as the cameras record each car's number plate and "talk" to each other via radio-wave technology.
Computers then calculate how fast the vehicle was travelling between each point. If a driver is found to have been speeding they will be fined ?60.
Road safety campaigners today hailed the new system that will rigidly enforce speed limits in 20mph zones.
But motoring groups said it would be powerless against the rising number who drive illegally by refusing to register their cars. The system is being pioneered by Transport for London in Camden from next month.
In a year-long experiment two cameras will be placed at either end of Mansfield Road, which has a 20mph zone. Fines will not be issued until the scheme has Home Office approval.
If successful it will be used across London. "The aim is to see how and if the technology works - it is not to gauge the effect on motorists yet," said TfL.
"It is one of a range of ideas we are looking at to tackle speed in sensitive areas such as residential roads.
"At the moment the only option to slow people down is to use hard engineering techniques such as humps, which many people do not like. This is one possible option and we want to see how it works."
Paul Smith, of the Safe Speed campaign, said: "Authority's obsession with speed cameras is not improving road safety and it has to stop."
However, safety organisation Road-Peace said it welcomed the trial.
ing useless and shut themselves down. 
*sigh* when will it end???? 
catso said:What a hoot! One of the worst desciptions of SPECs-type technology I've ever seen. Let's say the cameras are installed around the perimeter road of the estate (often fairly wide and usualy 30mph ... unless you call Milton Keynes a 'housing estate'). You pass the first camera, take the next turning, hoof it around the inner estate at high speed, then return to the perimeter road and tootle past the second camera. Speed measured by elapsed time <=30mph. Actual speed 70mph+. Dangerous? Yes! Do the cameras care? A most emphatic NO!
Groups of cameras will track cars over a wide area - such as a housing estate - instead of "flashing" them at just one spot.
Of course this is an extreme case for the purposes of illustration only. Of course, there's little wonder about the poor reporting in the media these days, the reporters and sub-editors are all products of our wonderful edukayshun sisterm.
Streaky
MR2Mike said:
I bet they still burn though 
Could someone refresh my memory on 20mph limits and wether they are enforcable? I have read something about this on here in the past.
IIRC, 20mph limits have to be 'self-enforcing' with so-called traffic-calming measures to prevent speeds in excess of the limit (when driving in a reasonable manner) and cannot be enforced with a machine.
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