Is SPECs a bluff?

Matt82 said:
i have blatently exceeded the speed limit in specs areas by accident in the past, nothing came through the post.

i beleive its all a bluff, have done so for a long time

see my thread asking if anyone had been ever caught by one. no one, ever. always friends of friends mates girlfriends paretns brother that got caught
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thats an exaggeration

People know first hand the people who've been caught by them. Not 4th or 5th hand.

And the reason none of us get caught (myself included) is because im not that dumb and stick to the 50 limit. Not because they dont work.
 
There are plenty of people on Pistonheads that have been caught by SPECS, and why would anybody feel the need to prove to the internet that they got a speeding ticket?
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Thanks for proving my point.

You state you know plenty of people have been caught, but you, yourself, haven't.
 
So what point are those that doubt them trying to make?

Are you advocating breaking a legal speed limit? If not then does it matter whether they are working or not as we will all be within the limit.

If you doubt they are working and want to speed, risk your licence over a week of speeding through them. That should net you enough points to give us all a good laugh. Personally I don't need a camera to make me decide whether to stick to a speed limit or not.

;)
 
thewanted said:
How can you blatantly exceed the speed limit by accident?
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i dont know what im doing half the time in the car

mrLOL i used to stick to them rigidly before, i thought it was a fool proof system but then slowly i noticed no one, not anyone, had ever been caught speeding with the system

then one thing lead to another i ended up driving grossly too fast through a specs system and from my own experience nothing came of it
 
I frequently see people doing well over 70mph through the SPECS covered 50 section at J2-3 of the M3. Either there's a lot of idiots out there or there's a lot of people who are confident the cameras are not active. I'm not going to risk it though.
 
You can't say either way, however, in my experience, most motorway yellow SPECS systems do not work, and I can vouch for the m3 and A34 where I categorily know they do not work.

Here are my examples and reasonings.

Contraflows: Where a contraflow has been set up for one lane, SPECS can never work in this situation, not least because it can't see my numberplate.

Camera Position: Workmen are sloppy. Drive late enough in the evening, and you will see it is them putting the cameras up. Notice the position of the cameras and you'll see that some are so way off the mark of being aimed in the right direction, it's almost farcical.

Logistics: To implement SPECS for contracted road workers would mean no one actually benefited from the fines that would be imposed. EG, the cost of implementing SPECS along a 3 mile section of the A34 with associated costs (database reference, cabling, calibration) would add so much cost onto the project, no semi conscious individual would deem it beneficial.

Logistics 2: There are never any signs of disturbance to the road side between SPECS locations. Were the cables, power and data, already there? There are no antennae on the units themselves so communication between two SPECS units is vritually impossible.

Further considerations: Refer to my 1st two points.

With at least the first two points taken into consideration, late at night or early in the morning, and when safe to do so, I have regularly whipped through yellow SPECS in excess of 60-65mph. If I'm totally unsure, I just hide my car behind a lorry in lane 1 :)
 
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I know some on the A34 where they are moving the bridge near oxford work, my aunt got caught going through them too fast and recieved a nice fine through the post a few weeks later :p
 
He's further up the A34 than where I am talking about. I haven't had chance to try it there as the traffic is always so bad, even getting to 40 is considered good ;)
 
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