Variable Speed Cameras

tonik · Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 5:26 pm Post subject: Variable Speed Cameras

Do the Variable Speed Cameras work when no limit is being shown on the gantry. An example of this is between Junction 26 & Junction 28 M1. When the gantries are not showing a speed limit I am being passed at speeds well in excess of 70m.p.h. Confused

253 · Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 6:45 pm Post subject:

As far as I know, they only work when the signs are activated - when they are showing a speed limit.
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Andy_P · Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 8:24 pm Post subject:

General consensus if that they are switched off when the matrix signs are off.
But we regularly hear press reports where the powers that be say they MIGHT be switched on in specific areas.
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DennisN · Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 8:38 pm Post subject:

My personal belief is that they are active, but at National Speed Limit, 70mph. Why would they waste them? I can't see that it costs them much to run them, for the return the fines would give them. Just a man in an office presses the button to switch the speed to 70.
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Andy_P · Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 9:16 pm Post subject:

But how does that explain all the reports from people who see dozens of cars speeding past them, which are being ignored by the cameras??

I'd always thought they were left off when the signs weren't in use because the film would run out too quick; and it would be embarrassing to have to admit how many people manage to drive safely at 80.

But are they even film now?
They do LOOK like old-fashioned Gatsos. If they were digital, wouldn't they look smaller and neater like Monitrons?
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M8TJT · Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 9:22 pm Post subject:

My understanding is that that to convert the standard Gatso to a digital one, they replaced the camera and added a slave flash nearer to the first flash area. The box looks the same Here

Darren · Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 9:29 pm Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 9:32 pm Post subject:

Darren · Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 9:38 pm Post subject:

Yes sorry, I'm thinking of SPECS for some reason!
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Andy_P · Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 9:49 pm Post subject:

Snow blindness? Wink

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MaFt · Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 10:45 pm Post subject:

M8TJT · Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 12:44 am Post subject:

I would have thought that Andy_P knows all about speedo accuracy and 10% + 2mph Very Happy

Andy_P · Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 1:29 am Post subject:

Well I'm not saying that I:
1. ignore my speedo and use the TomTom speed display, or
2. Always drive at +10%+2,

...but even if I was, I reckon I'd still see plenty of cars whizzing past me under the gantry cameras. Laughing

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Kremmen · Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 7:22 am Post subject:

tonik · Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 9:11 am Post subject:

Thanks guys. Just wondered, as majority of vehicles pass me when I make sure I'm only doing 70ish as I pass them

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