Stuff Specs

[Flying Scot]

enjoy

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/...eeding+tickets...by+changing+lanes/article.do

 

[television]

Thanks David, very good info, and I for one will not change lanes as advised:mrgreen: ;-) :evil: :roll: :-D

malcolm

 

[angus falconer]

Fantastic news to a Londoner watching the grim march of speed cameras into this great city.

Next time I drive to the office I will be continually changing lane

 

[Blobcat]

If you drive on the other side of the road do you get a -ve ticket? Could be useful if you are racking up the points

 

[Balal]

The article mentions an average speed camera on M8 between Glasgow and Edinburgh. Anyone knows its exact location ?!?

 

[Flying Scot]

there is/was only one set (as far as i know) at the road works in the Livingstone area - remember this was an English paper so they probably meant A77 he he i was seriously surprised to see the specs system removed from the M74 once the roadworks were done must cost a bomb to put the system in unless the cameras are linked with a wireless data network HE HE another chance to screw them up BUT i suspect they use Fibre Optics not so easy to screw up unless you have a JCB he he I remember one case of the main MOD RAF USAF F/O links (that is enough non secure info here) getting cut and we was tasked to fix it - how about this - they would not give us a map of the route of the cabe as it was 'top secret' ho hum

 

[C220GJS]

I remember one case of the main MOD RAF USAF F/O links (that is enough non secure info here) getting cut and we was tasked to fix it - how about this - they would not give us a map of the route of the cabe as it was 'top secret' ho hum

"MILITARY INTELLIGENCE" springs to mind.

 

[Myros]

that rhymes with

"Western Civilisation"

 

[Shambolic]

A77 south of fenwick has specs and as you quite rightly said a traffic cop friend of mine advised me that changing lanes should work but told me not to come crying to him if it didn't work!!
The M74 specs were strange and I am not sure they ever worked as the roadworks were continually swapping lanes every day but the camera angles were always the same!!!
Bu then i don't speed anyway

 

[Flying Scot]

A77 south of fenwick has specs and as you quite rightly said a traffic cop friend of mine advised me that changing lanes should work but told me not to come crying to him if it didn't work!!
The M74 specs were strange and I am not sure they ever worked as the roadworks were continually swapping lanes every day but the camera angles were always the same!!!
Bu then i don't speed anyway

AH HA but you have two cameras - one for each lane matters not if the road works were using one lane or the other as they were BOTH covered by specs......................what seems to be the problem/issue/benefit to us - is that the system does not mix and match but compares images from only one camera set so if you enter the specs zone on Cam1 and exit on Cam2 the system is not able 'LEGALLY' to work out your speed how this would work on the A77 a single lane road with multiple cameras - could we expect to be legally on the wrong side of the road (overtaking another car of course he he) as we pass the specs camera - i have no idea then can the specs system 'legally' measure your speed between Cam 1 and Cam 3 or does it have to measure between sucessive cameras C1/C2 C2/C3 C3/C4 etc and it cannot legally 'get you' by measuring C1 to C4

enquiring minds would love to know

though i have to admit on the A77 speeding has almost totally vanished and for sure it is a road where the speed limiter or cruise control is much more than a luxury - trully while i think there has been a masive improvment/reduction re/in speeding on the A77

i think having to concentrate to that extent on your speedo is CRAZY!!! and has little to do with and is mutually exclusive with driving 'safely'

pulls on a suit of kevlar body armour

 

[OmniCognateNeutronRangler]

I was tooling up the M1 the other day to Luton Airport and they have "Average speed" camera's in the road works. It does have this fact posted everywhere but its still amazing the number of people who went exactly the same speed as me and then sped-up once past the camera's. I just used cruise and set it to slightly below 40 (about 38 )

Anyone any idea what tollerances these average speed camera's allow over the distance? Obviously, even on cruise you do go up a bit when going down hills.

 

[Shambolic]

That is my worry with the M/A77 with the sections with four sets of cameras as you said can you get done between camera 1 and 4??? Just drive really fast then sit in laybay for a cup of tea before next camera
I must admit though on this road it has stopped a lot of accidents although there are some who still sit at 60mph on outside lane and slow to 50mph at each camera!!!!

 

[OmniCognateNeutronRangler]

Just drive really fast then sit in laybay for a cup of tea before next camera

LOL

 

[television]

Since Command does not have a data base for camara's I have slowed down a lot, if I get a add on detector/ database I can speed up again, only on the A roads, I always obay the 20-30-40 limit in towns and villages.

Malcolm

 

[OmniCognateNeutronRangler]

trouble is that camera databases do not cover camera cars and the police have cameras in unmarked cars now. I know at least one person that has been done by one and I am still not sure that I wasn't as I never saw a camera and it was on a bit of road I travel every day. I try to stick to the speed limit, not out of any sense of morality but just because I need my license. It's ****** difficult though and frankly dangerous. I think it's far safer to be looking out of your windscreen than at your speedo all the time.