Spot the Speed Camera

[Puzzled]

I like driving which often involves breaking the speed limit (where it's safe to do so) as much as the next person, but why should they be plainly marked etc?

The idea is to make you slow down, your not going to slow down if you don't see anything that makes you want to.

They should have huge big flashing signs up saying "SPEED CAMERA", then charge the idiots that still get caught.

There's no point hiding them and then saying you should be doing the speed limit at all times, as that's never going to happen.

 

[Nathan]

16

 

[TripleT]

But if I see one then I'll slow down and then just speed back up... (I actually did this 6years ago with a marked police car behind me, hello 3points! )

Surely if they started catching people left, right and centre then everyone would slow down in the whole?

(Christ this is making me sound bad I'm such a hypocrit )

I just don't see the point in occasionally putting a van in a place to make a section of road "safer" for a couple of hours. Is it really achieving anything?

 

[Glaucus]

I just don't see the point in occasionally putting a van in a place to make a section of road "safer" for a couple of hours. Is it really achieving anything?

No, but speed cameras achieve less than nothing, they make the roads more dangerous, but hey ho the government says they make it safer so it must be true.

 

[wez130]

14/19

 

[yak.h'cir]

I got 15! Although most of them were lucky guesses, i'd have never have noticed half of them if I were driving. I take it they're quite old pictures though, if there were still loads of cameras etc about that well hidden i'd have no license left at all!

Slightly OT, but I remember reading something about putting speed cameras into cats eyes (the ones in the road not inside actual cats). They were to be completely undetectable, so you'd never know where they were and would have to drive slow all the time.

 

[TripleT]

There's a speed camera outside a highschool near me which makes everyone slow down. Is that pointless?

Everyone is saying that these mobile speed cameras should be made clearer but imo that would be even more pointless. If you advertise that they're there then yes, people will slow down. But the other 99% of the time when the vans aren't there then no-one is going to bother.

If the speed cameras are kept hidden yet people know that they are there occasionally then surely this would achieve more and less people are likely going to take the chance?

Or am I talking out my arse?

 

[Bobbler]

There's a speed camera outside a highschool near me which makes everyone slow down. Is that pointless?

Everyone is saying that these mobile speed cameras should be made clearer but imo that would be even more pointless. If you advertise that they're there then yes, people will slow down. But the other 99% of the time when the vans aren't there then no-one is going to bother.

If the speed cameras are kept hidden yet people know that they are there occasionally then surely this would achieve more and less people are likely going to take the chance?

Or am I talking out my arse?

I see what you are saying mate, but TBH its surely those that dont drive that bit of road everyday that are the greatest threat to safety?
Say for instance there is a bit of road I drive nearly everyday that you would think you could quite happily drive through at your normal 30-35mph, however on this road is a hidden entrance to a school which comes out on a very narrow pavement and locals know to take it easy along there at those sort of times kids are likely to be around.
How does that help you as someone not journeying through there everyday?
Would a hidden camera around the danger spot slow you down?
How about hitting a child at 35mph and killing them, then getting a NIP in the post a fortnight later?
Or a big bright yellow camera or a flashing slow down sign?

The idea of safety cameras is to PREVENT accidents and deaths, not increase the treasury coffers. In the case above it would have done nothing for the parents of the kid...

An extreme example, but if its the case that they are there for safety, why are they only placed in revenue generating sites then, hidden round corners or at anywhere you could possibly open your car up? Why not outside every school, playpark or places where pedestrians are likely to be at risk?

 

[yak.h'cir]

There's a speed camera outside a highschool near me which makes everyone slow down. Is that pointless?

The camera may make people drive slower past the school. But is a road full of people watching their speedo as they pass the school, rather then concentrating on the road/watching for idiot children running into the road safer?

Everyone is saying that these mobile speed cameras should be made clearer but imo that would be even more pointless. If you advertise that they're there then yes, people will slow down. But the other 99% of the time when the vans aren't there then no-one is going to bother.

If the speed cameras are kept hidden yet people know that they are there occasionally then surely this would achieve more and less people are likely going to take the chance?

Or am I talking out my arse?

If hidden cameras were placed everywhere what do you think is more likely, everyone sticking to the speed limit or everyone getting banned from driving within the first week???

IMO there needs to be less cameras and more sensible speeds limits, then people might respect the law and follow it. Also maybe a little more time being spent teaching children that running into the road without looking is probably not the best idea.

 

[BenST]

I do a lot of driving (ave 200 miles a day) so I get to see my fair share of bastardized roads. After my horrible scare with a mobile pig van last week, of which I almost certainly have been caught, today I decided to stick to the speed limit religiously. I travelled along a 40mph wide open lane never going above 42mph and I caused a tailback. It was embarrassing, the road could have easily been a NSL and it wouldn't surprise me if it had been before.

Saying that though I did feel a lot calmer on my journey, I guess there's no anxiety on the lookout for the next camera.

 

[xiphrex]

The difficulty in this game is due to the fact that the pictures are so zoomed out that the car/truck/camera becomes so small its difficult to see, since the images are small to begin with anyway!

Police are damn sneaky though!

 

[TripleT]

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Never thought of it from that angle...

Until someone finds a better way we're stuck with them either way

 

[Hilly]

near telford?

Thats where the stag do was and I got done on the way back..

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I didn't recognise the side facing ones to begin with, I thought they where all rear facing?

must have been seriously unlucky to get done in Telford mate. There are only Three Gatsos and one Truevlo. There are a number of mobile sites, but they are never in use, and most of them have been ripped out of the floor by disgruntled motorists.

Where exactly did you get caught?

 

[jackoh]

14 out of 19, dont see anything like that round here tbh! gatsos and vans in bus stops is all

 

[Glaucus]

must have been seriously unlucky to get done in Telford mate. There are only Three Gatsos and one Truevlo. There are a number of mobile sites, but they are never in use, and most of them have been ripped out of the floor by disgruntled motorists.

Where exactly did you get caught?

Not in Telford, mobile camera towards Kidderminster on the big huge dual carriage way which is only 50mph

 

[Beans on toast Dave]

must have been seriously unlucky to get done in Telford mate. There are only Three Gatsos and one Truevlo. There are a number of mobile sites, but they are never in use, and most of them have been ripped out of the floor by disgruntled motorists.

Where exactly did you get caught?

not true i have seen a camera van(big van) a few time, it has the open back windows, also i have seen the usuall van that parks at he mobile sites but does not use the post on the side of the road, it too has a speed camera pointing out of the rear window(saw that in priorslee)was that shocked to see that one i turned round to get a second look

 

[i know nothing]

13/19

 

[Chabsy]

No they aint there just to raise a bit of cash, just think of all the lives they are saving.....no really

That 30 down to a 40 is just absolulely wrong, how the **** do we let them do it, with kiddy fiddlers muggers rapists and should have been deported scumbags roaming the streets.

On saturday after a 15 minute drive to the shops i saw 5 people on the moblies 1 of which cut me up a bloke in a van belching out so much smoke that the north circ looked like 1950s london, but they werent speeding so i guess thats ok.

 

[TripleT]

On saturday after a 15 minute drive to the shops i saw 5 people on the moblies 1 of which cut me up a bloke in a van belching out so much smoke that the north circ looked like 1950s london, but they werent speeding so i guess thats ok.

You do realise that they've changed the law TODAY in order to cut the number of people using mobiles...?

Though it's a *******s law imo

 

[Chabsy]

You do realise that they've changed the law TODAY in order to cut the number of people using mobiles...?

Though it's a *******s law imo

The law was ammended today the punishment is now more serve