Discussion
ok, what are these new truvelo camera thingy's then!?!
are they digital or do they still need to flash?
and can they determine your EXACT speed and do they have any 'leeway' before you get booked???
cheers,
Gareth.
NO THERE NOT NEW , NO THERE NOT DIGITAL
they take a front fasing pic and work as a time distdence device ie no radar strips under the tarmak
and work using info red flash
so as not to blind the drive
as the make nice barberque
if yourdoing thei wantdriving bit duck when you go past it or get a nice big wide sunstrip
or beter still come back and cut it down with a portable disk cuter/grinder and get the film
before they do
pluss get your self a nice cam while you at for theholiday snaps
deltaf said: Some Truvelos are digital.
As Outlaw says, they use an infra red flash so the first you know bout it is the NIP.
Hic.....
You can normally still see the flash at night and on dark days. It just looks a lower intensity than an ordinary Gatso flash, presumably because most of it's power is in the IR spectrum.
However, the Truevelo’s I’ve seen flash only did so once. Maybe they take one totally IR photo and one normal photo??? Or maybe they only give a visible flash when there’s no camera in them and they’re in “scare mode”. The Truevelo manufacturer’s website used to advertise flash modules that could be fitted to camera boxes to go off at speeding drivers when there was not a real camera installed.
slightly O/T, but I've recently written to my MP about Truvelos in Northants - they're going up without the yellow markings, which they should have in our county. He has replied stating that he doesn't think Truvelos are speeding cameras, but he thinks they're for moitoring traffic and stolen cars!!!! Duhh, how are we supposed to reason with people like this, I really am at a loss as to how to reply rationally to the man. One good sign is that he is going to check with the chief constable, so at least he may find out the real use of the cameras!
Funny thing is, I haven't seen Talivans at the locations to justify there positioning?
Tabs, I've noticed this too. E.g the new Hopping Hill Scamera, I've never seen or heard of a van there. I think they justify the positioning (to themselves) by putting it on a hill so they know they make plenty of cash out of it
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