Britain's most powerful speed camera hits the M4
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https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/brit...
"Dubbed 'The Long Ranger' police have unveiled the new weapon in a drive to clamp down on tailgating and speeding".
Can someone please explain to me how a super long paparazzo style lens will help in detecting tailgating?
That's all.
"Dubbed 'The Long Ranger' police have unveiled the new weapon in a drive to clamp down on tailgating and speeding".
Can someone please explain to me how a super long paparazzo style lens will help in detecting tailgating?
That's all.
Police force said:
“The aim is not just to penalise motorists but to uphold the law by creating a change in people’s behaviour.
"But the police will enforce the law when necessary.”
So they have bought it to penalise motorists. w"But the police will enforce the law when necessary.”
kers.Driving standards really aren't going to be driven up on our motorways by a plastic bobby with a perv length lense on his camera. I know they can't afford motorway cops any more but this is taking the proverbial.
Who cares about knife crime, gangs and burglary when you can spend on high tech devices to tax middle class speeders for doing 5mph over the limit !
Revenue revenue revenue, safety ... ?
War on the cashcow motorist wages on. s.
Another disproportionate thread: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/13/labour...
Insane, they are seriously out of control, we’ll be hung, drawn & quartered for 35 in a 30 next !
Revenue revenue revenue, safety ... ?
War on the
s.Another disproportionate thread: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/13/labour...
Insane, they are seriously out of control, we’ll be hung, drawn & quartered for 35 in a 30 next !
Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 15th November 22:44
So the police cant afford the recourse to investigate the recent spate of burglary's round here, yet they can afford to splash out on one of these fancy cameras to catch otherwise law abiding folk simply going a few mph over the limit?
You can get away with anything - all manner of bad, dangerous & aggressive driving on the road these days so long as you don't speed!
You can get away with anything - all manner of bad, dangerous & aggressive driving on the road these days so long as you don't speed!
I'm pretty certain I saw that white lens poking out of the back of a camera van a month ago. I was a bit preoccupied with checking my speed at the time, but my brain registered that it looked unusual.
It was at the top of a hill pointing West somewhere around the M27 Cadnum-ish. Testing perhaps.
It was at the top of a hill pointing West somewhere around the M27 Cadnum-ish. Testing perhaps.
If the Police are as under funded and under resourced as they say they are (and I for one believe them), then why would they allocate resources to enforcement on motorways? It seems that whatever statistic you use, our motorways are by far the safest of all our roads.
People will continue to show contempt for limits and laws where the establishment fail to convince people that those laws are appropriate. Putting a twenty zone next to a school is understandable. The "speed kills" campaign is not so, everyone knows it's a lie and that's why it has not and never will gain traction with the masses.
Speed doesn't kill. But driving at a speed inappropriate to the conditions does. Not paying attention whilst driving does too.
If the anti-speed campaigners were actually pragmatic, sensible and believable they might get somewhere. But no, the public just sees them as the fanatics that they are. And for that reason, the message they deliver will always be treated with contempt. Initiatives like this one, although not related to speeding, will just get bundled into the category of the war against the motorist, or the easy cash cow / easy good statistic.
A pity really, as there genuinely are many drivers who speed inappropriately.
People will continue to show contempt for limits and laws where the establishment fail to convince people that those laws are appropriate. Putting a twenty zone next to a school is understandable. The "speed kills" campaign is not so, everyone knows it's a lie and that's why it has not and never will gain traction with the masses.
Speed doesn't kill. But driving at a speed inappropriate to the conditions does. Not paying attention whilst driving does too.
If the anti-speed campaigners were actually pragmatic, sensible and believable they might get somewhere. But no, the public just sees them as the fanatics that they are. And for that reason, the message they deliver will always be treated with contempt. Initiatives like this one, although not related to speeding, will just get bundled into the category of the war against the motorist, or the easy cash cow / easy good statistic.
A pity really, as there genuinely are many drivers who speed inappropriately.
g3org3y said:
Waste of a lovely Canon L lens.
This. I'm sure when the local scamera van partnership put on a show of their kit a few years back they were using the Sigma 100-400 lens. I'm curious why they need to spec an L range lens for this. Not really the point, I know, but it seems overkill. You never know ....
They may actually use them to sort out the middle lane drivers who seem to have taken total control of that section of the M4...
I don't think you'd get too many speeders as there is already gantry cameras in the variable speed sections...
The "keep centre and right" brigade monopolize the M4 from the bridges all the way through to J34 at Miskin...
Also they are looking at deploying the long range camera along the A417/419 Swindon through to Gloucester - there was a news report on TV earlier this week...
They may actually use them to sort out the middle lane drivers who seem to have taken total control of that section of the M4...
I don't think you'd get too many speeders as there is already gantry cameras in the variable speed sections...
The "keep centre and right" brigade monopolize the M4 from the bridges all the way through to J34 at Miskin...
Also they are looking at deploying the long range camera along the A417/419 Swindon through to Gloucester - there was a news report on TV earlier this week...
untakenname said:
Refreshing to see the comments in that article, years back there may have been some public goodwill sentiment towards speed enforcement but that has long since evaporated as driving standards have declined as the police focus solely on speed rather than bad driving.
I've been saying this for years - if they enforce speed limits too much it becomes totally unremarkable to be caught for it; everyone just thinks it's oe of those things, like getting a parking ticket. 
Schmed said:
Another disproportionate thread: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/13/labour...
Are you saying she shouldn't be prosecuted for lying about the driver? We can argue all day about the rights and wrongs of speed limits and enforcement, but anyone doing 30% over the limit knows the risks and ought to accept the consequence. I'm not claiming that I've never broken the speed limit, but I wouldn't lie about the driver if I were to get caught.The evidence of her brother doing the exact same thing suggests that this wasn't some unwitting lapse of judgement either, and frankly she deserves all that she gets for trying to avoid 3 points and a relatively small fine.
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