Speed cameras

[Gordon R]

On holiday in Cornwall last week - passed through a village with one of those signs which lights up and tells you your speed. This particular one gave my speed and also my registration. The first one I have come across. 

Are these commonplace?

[mossy835]

we go to cornwall every year praa sands, and they had them there for 2 years.

[marsh man]

51 minutes ago, Gordon R said:

On holiday in Cornwall last week - passed through a village with one of those signs which lights up and tells you your speed. This particular one gave my speed and also my registration. The first one I have come across. 

Are these commonplace?

Never seen one , mind you it do take a year or two before modern technology get to these parts , still the last one that clocked me doing five miles over the 30 limit was one of the first ones ever invented was still good enough for me to cough up about £80 and a morning in the class room doing a awareness course , still I haven't been back so it must had taught me a lesson .

[Munzy]

1 hour ago, Gordon R said:

On holiday in Cornwall last week - passed through a village with one of those signs which lights up and tells you your speed. This particular one gave my speed and also my registration. The first one I have come across. 

Are these commonplace?

Quite a few in Wiltshire. They are being used to capture evidence for police follow up. You won’t get a NIP through the post with them but you might get a letter from the local constabulary or even a knock at the door if your speed is high enough/you’re caught multiple times.

A lot of parish councils are buying Auto Speed Watch devices and posting photos of speeding drivers, complete with calibrated speed and registration number, on social media. Some speeding round me is crazy - one idiot regularly hitting 95mph in a 30mph village at school pickup time. 

[Gordon R]

I wasn't speeding, but was shocked to see my reg number. My wife thought I was kidding until we returned on the same route.

[Westley]

We now have combined speed and red light cameras on some junctions, these have reduced the number of collisions at these locations to virtually nil. Less than a mile from one of these camera locations is a very large junction where 2 motorways end and 2 main roads meet. This is just traffic light controlled but no cameras. There is a collision a day at this location and the 'experts' are scratching their heads looking for ways to make the junction safer   ??  Er.......maybe some cameras would help  !

[simcgunner]

In the states red light cameras are common if you run one you can expect to get a summons in the mail. Last week I got caught going a little fast by a new camera and it cost me 100.00 dollars.

[Robden]

8 hours ago, marsh man said:

Never seen one , mind you it do take a year or two before modern technology get to these parts , still the last one that clocked me doing five miles over the 30 limit was one of the first ones ever invented was still good enough for me to cough up about £80 and a morning in the class room doing a awareness course , still I haven't been back so it must had taught me a lesson .

Have the rules changed then?  I was given a choice. A fine OR the class room.

[steve_b_wales]

46 minutes ago, Robden said:

Have the rules changed then?  I was given a choice. A fine OR the class room.

'The classroom' depends on how fast over the limit you are going, and, if you have already attended one within the past three years. I got caught last year doing 34mph in a 30mph zone which was in a very open large stretch of road and was offered (and took) the speed awareness course.

Edited May 29, 2023 by steve_b_wales

[marsh man]

2 hours ago, Robden said:

Have the rules changed then?  I was given a choice. A fine OR the class room.

No , I think the rules are still the same , I was also given the choice , a fine and three points or a Awareness course , I believe you only get a choice if you have a clean licence , if you had been caught for speeding within the last three years or so then you get a fine and points put on your licence , things might had changed as my choice might had been around ten years ago , I dare say we will soon know by a member who is more clued up on this sort of thing than I am 

[Vince Green]

I live in Cornwall about half the year now. New technology is not something I associate with Cornwall generally. 

Their favourite traffic calming method is a tractor with a trailer. I'm sure the farmers do it on purpose

 

 

 

Edited May 29, 2023 by Vince Green

[Andy H]

The system was first trialed on the M1 at Leicester in the late 90's when they were widening the M1 , We were coming back from holiday and through the roadworks an illuminated sign lit up with my numberplate and speed of my old ford escort on it , 55 in a 50 zone but this was before they were made legal and was the first trial of the ANPR camera/software system in the UK.

Edited May 29, 2023 by Andy H

[harrycatcat1]

Not a speed camera but as you enter Matlock Sainsburys car park it displays your number plate on a screen 🤔 its done it for years.

[Northerner]

19 hours ago, Gordon R said:

On holiday in Cornwall last week - passed through a village with one of those signs which lights up and tells you your speed. This particular one gave my speed and also my registration. The first one I have come across. 

Are these commonplace?

Not seen a reg. one before but the speed boards are everywhere. You've got to be really careful now down here as a lot of the red light cameras are also speed cameras and average cameras are popping up everywhere. There is a drive to make a lot of the villages 20mph as well. Luckily the quite zone thing they tried around the back lanes near treliske hospital failed. 

[Gordon R]

We were on the way to Porthleven from Marazion - possibly Ashton.

[ditchman]

19 hours ago, marsh man said:

Never seen one , mind you it do take a year or two before modern technology get to these parts , still the last one that clocked me doing five miles over the 30 limit was one of the first ones ever invented was still good enough for me to cough up about £80 and a morning in the class room doing a awareness course , still I haven't been back so it must had taught me a lesson .

they are in Beighton ...on the way to Cantley.....they have solar cells running them......i think they are there .cause of the sugar beet trucks speeding to their slot at the factory..

[Bigbob]

Does anybody think those average speed cameras work ?. surely they would need a computer the size of a city to note your cars number and work out your average speed especially on the one from Perth to Inverness /.

[Westley]

2 hours ago, Bigbob said:

Does anybody think those average speed cameras work ?. surely they would need a computer the size of a city to note your cars number and work out your average speed especially on the one from Perth to Inverness /.

Of course they work, everyone (with a few exceptions) sticks to the speed limit in areas where they are installed. Now whether they prosecute anyone exceeding the speed limits through them is another matter. Its the same with the old existing cameras, how many of them actually still work is anyone's guess, but maybe you could test them and let us all know the result  ??   🤔

[discobob]

5 hours ago, Bigbob said:

Does anybody think those average speed cameras work ?. surely they would need a computer the size of a city to note your cars number and work out your average speed especially on the one from Perth to Inverness /.

Actually, it wouldn’t - a bit of stream/edge processing logging to a table - select min time, max time, timediff, distance between first and last marker

I done something similar 15 years ago for a cyber defence system and saved the end client a pretty penny while at it. 
a half decent SQL installation with NVME drives (local or SAN) can do thousands of transactions a second. 
In fact it would just be a running total doing an Update/Insert every time you passed a camera as you know the distance from the last camera

25 years ago I was running a system for a Telco that could process 30 million calls a day. It overall took 3 racks in a client server configuration but it’s storage was 5 meters long!!!

[countryman]

The council have a new way of getting you to slow down in my area, they put a yellow chalk line around the huge pot holes and then just leave them, when the chalk fades someone comes and puts another yellow chalk line around them. 

[Westley]

We have 2 quite large potholes locally, one has been filled with water and has 2 plastic yellow ducks on it, the other has been filled with soil and planted out with flowers. I did write to the Council 3 years ago, asking for permission to hold an off road 4 x 4 event on a local major road. I went on to explain how these events tested the suspension and build strength of competing vehicles, almost to destruction.   I never had a reply, but 6 months later the road was resurfaced. 

[Bigbob]

23 hours ago, Westley said:

Of course they work, everyone (with a few exceptions) sticks to the speed limit in areas where they are installed. Now whether they prosecute anyone exceeding the speed limits through them is another matter. Its the same with the old existing cameras, how many of them actually still work is anyone's guess, but maybe you could test them and let us all know the result  ??   🤔

When the daughter lived past Aberdeen i used to drive at the speed limit cars passed me all the time like i was going backwards i have no faith in them only the mobile cash machines that they use 

[Westley]

1 hour ago, Bigbob said:

When the daughter lived past Aberdeen i used to drive at the speed limit cars passed me all the time like i was going backwards i have no faith in them only the mobile cash machines that they use 

I'll bet they didn't do that where there were cameras though  ?

Say what you like, cameras DO work, people do slow down to pass them. They are only 'cash machines' IF you trigger them  !  The one common denominator in most fatals is speed, I have seen enough of them to be able to comment.

Edited May 30, 2023 by Westley

[Mickeydredd]

On 29/05/2023 at 06:06, Robden said:

Have the rules changed then?  I was given a choice. A fine OR the class room.

You have to pay to sit the course, think that is what he is referring to.  The cost is usually slightly cheaper than the fine but you don't get any points so worth doing.