Electronic Speed Warning Signs

There have been half a dozen of these put up along my drive to work, in a long village with houses close to the road, and people do exceed 30 regularly and by a fair margin too, but none of them work! A couple worked to start with, excpet one flashed me when I was doing 25, and the one at the entrance from the NSL where people do 45-50 has never flashed anyone. They were all dead this morning - bit of waste of money.

There was an article in the paper to the effect that they can't catch you speeding and record it, no fixed cameras here, and the nearest handheld one is in Inverness :p.
 
The ones with a red flashing LED display that flashes your speed used to cause me much amusement to see how high I could get it to register.

Yes I am a child killing ****. And I care --->|<--- that much ;)
 
wozzizname said:
There's one around here in a 40 zone that triggers if you exceed 30.... :rolleyes:
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Much the same here, i went through one at around 25MPH in a 30MPH limit and it told me to slow down :confused:
 
Scottland said:
About 8 weeks ago the local authorities installed lots of these around the area, similar to these.

Is it possible for them to pull of statistics from them to find out how many times its detecting people over the limit?

I say this, as today I come home to find a (s)camera van about 400 yards down the road from the warning sign, it's never been here before so must be a new location. It's also been parked on the other side of the road the rest of the day.

Co-incidence? Or are they finding out where most people are speeding and then deploying these vans?

An attempt to proactively stop accidents related by speeding, or out to make a quick buck?
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we've got one down the end of my road.... its ALWAYS on, and has always been on since they switched it on.... its on a corner so its not picking up traffic and is always complaining about 30mph speed limit even at 3am, and the only thing about is a drunken me struggling to do 1mph

my mates got one of them to run in the road while they recorded it..... looked quiet funny...
 
I'd be more inclined to say that they already knew it was a hotspot for speeding, and that was the initial reason for putting the sign up. Chances are they did a survey.

Then they've done another one to see if its made any difference, and as it hasn't they thought theyd raise the money they spent to install it in the first place.
 
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