| GsiTurbo |
I really feel sorry for the drivers in UK using M4 highway...read this:
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There are new electronic signs on the M4 which are being switched today
(Tuesday). They are rigged with the SPECS speed cameras.
I'm sure you know, but SPECS is a camera based system. As you go past a
camera software detects and reads your number plate. When you go past
the next camera, it detects and reads your number plate again. It knows how
far apart the cameras are so it can work out your average speed between
the two cameras.
The system is fully automatic and will automatically issue a ticket
without any form of human intervention. It does this for every single vehicle
that passes a camera! You will not know you've been nicked as the cameras
don't flash. There's no film in them either, they're digital. Images of you
in your car, together with the date and time are stored on disc (I assume
they only keep them if you've been nicked).
It works 24/7, 365 days a year, and theoretically, there's absolutely no
limit on the number of tickets that it can issue.
The whole section of the M4 between Theale (J12) and Membury Services
(between 14 and 15) is wired, both ways. It is believed that the system
is set to trigger a ticket at 78 mph.
The bad news gets even worse. For those who've got radar detectors,
they won't work. SPECS is entirely passive, there's no radar or laser beam
to pick up.
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| 98 teg |
| talk about getting bent, so if you speed up and then slow down through the next camera you get nailed, what picked up :thefinger: :wtf: |
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| GsiTurbo |
| Thats what the drivers do on the French motorways - bomb it along then stop for a break just before the next toll booth. They time the time it takes you to get between toll booths to work out your average speed....so if you are taking time to eat... :P The average speed is quite low = no ticket |
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| POX |
wow... now that is a speeding tax....
thye need a way of blanking out there licene placet while thye pass by the cammras |
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| VerbotenZ34 |
quote:
Originally posted by POX
thye need a way of blanking out there licene placet while thye pass by the cammras
Hey, this is the country that came up with bad dental health and James Bond. I'm sure someone's Aston Martin will shoot out the camera with a laser beam! :bigthumbup:
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| DeathBy240 |
| How does it work without a flash 24 hours a day? |
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| superpirate25 |
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Originally posted by DeathBy240
How does it work without a flash 24 hours a day?
Technology my man, there are lenses that can take a good picture with even a minute amount of available light. And since the whole process is digital I'm sure they can figure out ways to read the plate if it is somewhat dark. |
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| GsiTurbo |
quote:
Originally posted by DeathBy240
How does it work without a flash 24 hours a day?
Infrared!! |
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| SlowAzzPorsche911T |
| maybe they have a problem with speeding there? :idunno: |
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| HKSpowers |
| The thing looks like a rocket launcher!!!! |
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| high school |
| crazy british people... :D |
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| SplineZ |
You have to remember that your movements in the UK are filmed everywhere you go. Everything is on CCTV there.. Its kinda expected they'd do something this crazy :)
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| -]TooL[- |
| ya theres channels you can watch the m1 on. many different perspectives on that highway. i dont know if i would like that kind of control. its :wacko: |
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| REFLUX |
quote:
Originally posted by VerbotenZ34
Hey, this is the country that came up with bad dental health and James Bond.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA |
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