Slim black camera attached to a lamp post near a bridge

[mobile chicane22]

As title really, I can’t find a photo of this specific camera on line but it’s on a lamp post near a bridge on my regular commute, I’ll try and bag a photo on the way home

[Baldchap]

Sorry?

[Sebring440]

Baldchap said:

Sorry?

It's just (yet) another of these bizarre "what camera is this" posts.

[Riley Blue]

mobile chicane22 said:

As title really, I can t find a photo of this specific camera on line but it s on a lamp post near a bridge on my regular commute, I ll try and bag a photo on the way home

I can hardly contain my excitement...

[mobile chicane22]

Riley Blue said:

I can hardly contain my excitement...

I’ll try and provide a sexy yet informative photo 😚

[Groomio]

What's this ?

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[droopsnoot]

We've recently had cameras up on various routes locally, on a pole attached to bridge handrails, or lamp posts. They've got a sign on the pole that says "these are traffic survey cameras, they're not being used to enforce anything or to gather any evidence of anything" and giving contact details for the firm that installed them. It took about a day for someone to post a photo asking "what are these for?" and for people to respond with made-up nonsense, though it's more difficult to tell how many of those were real and how many were tongue in cheek.

They looked like this: https://macclesfield.nub.news/news/local-news/why-...

[mobile chicane22]

Groomio said:

What's this ?

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

not those ones smaller and more like a letterbox

[mobile chicane22]

droopsnoot said:

We've recently had cameras up on various routes locally, on a pole attached to bridge handrails, or lamp posts. They've got a sign on the pole that says "these are traffic survey cameras, they're not being used to enforce anything or to gather any evidence of anything" and giving contact details for the firm that installed them. It took about a day for someone to post a photo asking "what are these for?" and for people to respond with made-up nonsense, though it's more difficult to tell how many of those were real and how many were tongue in cheek.

They looked like this: https://macclesfield.nub.news/news/local-news/why-...

not like those ones either

[Earthdweller]

mobile chicane22 said:

droopsnoot said:

We've recently had cameras up on various routes locally, on a pole attached to bridge handrails, or lamp posts. They've got a sign on the pole that says "these are traffic survey cameras, they're not being used to enforce anything or to gather any evidence of anything" and giving contact details for the firm that installed them. It took about a day for someone to post a photo asking "what are these for?" and for people to respond with made-up nonsense, though it's more difficult to tell how many of those were real and how many were tongue in cheek.

They looked like this: https://macclesfield.nub.news/news/local-news/why-...

not like those ones either

I can reveal all ... they are enforcement cameras designed to target those that drive in a straight line and release a new generation of autonomous drone that will seek and destroy the offending vehicle

Fortunately due to his username the Op is exempt

Hope that helps

Now, if they'd have been oblong rather than letterbox that's a whole other story

[Riley Blue]

The tension's mounting here in downtown Chesterfield where news teams are standing by for the big announcement about the mystery camera's purpose - will it come soon?

[POIDH]

Earthdweller said:

I can reveal all ... they are enforcement cameras designed to target those that drive in a straight line and release a new generation of autonomous drone that will seek and destroy the offending vehicle

Fortunately due to his username the Op is exempt

Hope that helps

Now, if they'd have been oblong rather than letterbox that's a whole other story

I would suggest that OP is not exempt, he merely has a "a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. "

[vikingaero]

mobile chicane22 said:

As title really, I can t find a photo of this specific camera on line but it s on a lamp post near a bridge on my regular commute, I ll try and bag a photo on the way home

Sorry I can't help either, but I did see a lamp post attached to a slim black camera.

[mobile chicane22]

weather was rubbish so no photo today sorry folks, it could be to stop or catch vehicles over 7.5 tons crossing the bridge as said bridge about 50 meters after the mystery device does have a few signs stating the weight limit.


its also good for a bit of air on anything with two wheels and a bit of pep..... so I've been told

[POIDH]

mobile chicane22 said:

weather was rubbish so no photo today sorry folks, it could be to stop or catch vehicles over 7.5 tons crossing the bridge as said bridge about 50 meters after the mystery device does have a few signs stating the weight limit.


its also good for a bit of air on anything with two wheels and a bit of pep..... so I've been told

Say what now?

[Weejus]

Could it be a camera to warn HGV drivers of a height restricted bridge further along the road , I live near one of the most bashed bridges in the country in the A5 in Leicestershire and they have cameras and signs warning HGV's they are over the height needed to pass through..?

[J__Wood]

mobile chicane22 said:

said bridge about 50 meters after the mystery device

You can't leave it at that, is that a measurement in gas, electric or water meters?