Forward facing speedcameras, do they 'get' you?

they do flash but it's a lot less visible, Truvelo are used both ways these days, you would been to go back and look at the angle it is pointing plus marks on road (though often these are put on both sides)
 
ivrytwr3 said:
Thread revive!!!

Went through a 30 towards a forward facing camera and was 'flashed' - looked down and i was doing approx 36mph - 38mph (bah!)

But there was also a stream of traffic in the opposite lane travelling in the other direction - was it me or one of them that is getting a ticket?!

(yes, i shouldn't have speeding :()

ETA: Just street mapped it and it was one of these camers :(

http://www.speedcamerasuk.com/speed-camera-types/truvelo-speed-camera.jpg
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I'd be expecting a late present through the post :(
 
jono_astra said:
always wanted to know as well to add to this is how to they catch you with headlights on from the front. Surly even if it was polorised it would still blur the plate?
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The camera flash and camera are infra red. It reflects off of your numberplate and is clearly visible in the photo
 
Thanks for this thread, I have now won a debate from about a month ago but my bad Googling skillz proved the other people correct.
About a decade ago I was driving back from Ashby with a mate who is a traffic Cop and I went through the speed trap at 30 mph but I was flashed.
I said 'you are my witness' but he said it was the car on the other side of the road that had set it off and this fact stayed with me and I used the anecdote in the debate.
 
As anyone tried fitting infra red bulbs to their car.

If I have an infra red cctv camera pointed at another camera it just goes white.

Would speed camera's react the same
 
mattyg said:
As anyone tried fitting infra red bulbs to their car.

If I have an infra red cctv camera pointed at another camera it just goes white.

Would speed camera's react the same
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there are products available that do this. i suspect they are illegal mind
 
They work on the Doppler effect. Doesn't matter whether you are moving toward them or away, it can calculate your speed and nick you.... And to answer your question, yes, they do nick you, I have have been done by one....
 
Having been through the one in the op at speed and one near here at 50 when it flashed me then I can only disagree!

That is, going towards at Gatso facing the flash than the proper way.
 
kirkster said:
They work on the Doppler effect. Doesn't matter whether you are moving toward them or away, it can calculate your speed and nick you.... And to answer your question, yes, they do nick you, I have have been done by one....
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Gatso radar based systems work in the doppler effect, but they are rear facing cameras. Gatsos sometimes flash when being driven towards, but this will not result in a prosecution or ticket.

The Truvelo system measures speed directly by timing vehicles between two sensors in the road and is a front facing camera.
 
I saw something strange the other day.

I work by leeds bradford airport, and the road leading to it is lined with speed cameras to catch people speeding to the airport.

I had a police car overtake me with full blues and twos on, probably doing a good 20mph over the limit and went through about 3 of them that I could see, and not one of them activated.

Do modern emergency vechicles have a way of stopping them firing as they pass by ? or are they simply not in use anymore and kept by the local partnership as a deterrent ? I heard an urban legend that a lot of cameras get switched off as they are no longer profitable to operate, but the partnership leave them up anyway.
 
I think quite a few cameras don't work. I did 90mph in a 50mph controlled motorway zone and no ticket despite there being cameras and lines on road.
Saying that, I better not get a ticket through the post for some other speeding incident.
 
Fr0dders said:
Do modern emergency vechicles have a way of stopping them firing as they pass by ? or are they simply not in use anymore and kept by the local partnership as a deterrent ? I heard an urban legend that a lot of cameras get switched off as they are no longer profitable to operate, but the partnership leave them up anyway.
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Most cameras are still empty cases. The last region I heard figures for (from some years ago) was for Cambs, who had something like 130 sites and 2 actual cameras. The numbers may be wrong, but the idea is (AFAIK) true. The problem is the logistics of dealing with the pictures. Average speed cameras are similarly expensive, but here the problem is hiring the computing needed to crunch all the data: the system records everything, then sifts out the speeders. Another Cambs example: I've yet to hear of single person (first-hand, not "I had a mate") who has been done by the A14 camera system. Although speeding along there is hard most times of day.

Nowadays most actual catching of speeders is via the mobile cameras, which are cheaper to process and had a fair proportion of fixed costs (the civilians who operate them are council employees or contractors).

All this works, because the cases alone are reasonable effective deterrents.
 
Haggisman said:
Just to clarify, there are speed cameras which can catch you driving towards them, but not all of them - the standard gatsos are rear-facing only. The reason there are sometimes lines on both sides of the road is in case of people driving on the wrong side to avoid them.
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Or, as with the road pictured above, there are multiple lanes and they need to identify which car is actually speeding and has triggered the camera.
 
Meridian said:
Most cameras are still empty cases. The last region I heard figures for (from some years ago) was for Cambs, who had something like 130 sites and 2 actual cameras. The numbers may be wrong, but the idea is (AFAIK) true. The problem is the logistics of dealing with the pictures. Average speed cameras are similarly expensive, but here the problem is hiring the computing needed to crunch all the data: the system records everything, then sifts out the speeders. Another Cambs example: I've yet to hear of single person (first-hand, not "I had a mate") who has been done by the A14 camera system. Although speeding along there is hard most times of day.

Nowadays most actual catching of speeders is via the mobile cameras, which are cheaper to process and had a fair proportion of fixed costs (the civilians who operate them are council employees or contractors).

All this works, because the cases alone are reasonable effective deterrents.
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appears its not such an urban legend after all then !

The cameras do look quite old. Rust on the poles etc..
 
We have four cameras in a small area near where I live and they share a camera module. So only one will capture an image. However I think all 4 will flash
 
It's going back a bit but my traffic cop mate said 1 in 10 are loaded but they swap them around.
Around 2006 I had my car nicked and I got a fine for doing 62 in a 30 which was easily disproved but the lad who had done it had gone down a notorious road with 6 cameras and only that one had taken a picture. I think we can assume he had sped through all of them.

Funny part of the story:
When the car was found a week later Mrs Dimple was cleaning it out and found the little scrotes details on a piece of paper he'd dropped on the floor. It had his name, address, phone number and the date of his next court appearance :D
 
When I used to have a radar detector it would tell me which Gatsos were live. I'd say it was probably about 1/10, and on the A2 going into London, none of them were live at all. I'd say the more modern digital Truvelos and Speedcurbs are far more likely to be live though.
 
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