please explain?????

wotswot · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 17, 2009 Posts: 57

hi, red light, gatso, mobile i understand... but who the hell is Truvelo & his m8's????? stupid i know!!! cheers............

253 · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 11:56 pm Post subject:

I'm no expert, but a quick stab at it.
truvelo is a forward facing camera designed to take pics of the front of the vehicle including driver. It's digital, so I suppose it doesn't need film etc. I understand it doesn't need to 'flash' in the normal sense when activated, and is activated by 'loops' or coils' in the road surface.

That's it, all I know, and I'm not sure how accurate it is.
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Daggers · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 11:57 pm Post subject:

Truvelo is another kind of fixed camera. Have a look at the bottom of tne camera submission page for photos of all the different types.

Andy_P · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 12:23 am Post subject:

Truvelo is just another brand name, for a camera manufacturer.

Like "Hoover" has come to mean any vacuum cleaner, it has come to mean (as far as the database here is concerned), a front-facing camera that uses infra-red flash and sensor strips in the road. However, other manufacturers (even "Gatso") make a similar type of camera, and Truvelo may well make "Gatsos"! Laughing

As far as I know, the normal Truvelo camera isn't digital and DOES use film. It is the small cameras on tall poles that are digital and don't need film.

To confuse it even further, those digital cams are still referred to as "Monitrons" but the company got bought out by another one, "RedSpeed" who make the ones that do redlight offences AND speed checking).

"SPECS" are the average speed camera systems you see in roadworks and in the M25 gantries, and there are several other companies who are muscling in on the camera gravytrain, but they are all still going to be referred to by the generic names they have for the foreseeable future.

Darren · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 10:33 am Post subject:

And all explained with photos on the Submit Cameras page here.
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wotswot · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 17, 2009 Posts: 57

thanks Darren... you guys really are spot on Very Happy

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