Average Speed Cameras Catch 16000

[RobBrady]

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Speed cameras that were turned on in Birmingham in August have already snared almost 16,000 speeders.

The average speed camera fines, if paid in full, would amount to nearly £1.6m.

Eight cameras, costing £1m in total, were activated across the city last August, although it has been reported that not all of them were in use at the same time.

Councillor Stewart Stacey, Birmingham City Council commented: "These average speed cameras are an important tool in encouraging motorists to think about and, if they've not yet done so, to change their behaviour on our roads by keeping to the speed limit. These figures show that they are effective."

The 16,000 speeding drivers represent only a tiny proportion of what is seen right across the UK - a significant amount of people are either ignorant of how these cameras work (including foreign drivers), lose concentration or blatantly ignore the speed limit. It's likely that many believe that the cameras are not actually switched on.

For those that don't know, simply put, pairs of cameras monitor a stretch of road. The first of the pair spot your number plate and start a timer. The second camera spots your number plate again when you complete that stretch and makes a calculation. It measures your average speed over the stretch and then compares it to the allowed speed.

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[jonchill]

Given that in less than a year Birmingham have made back the cost of the cameras and are now in pure profit territory will this spark an explosion of cameras across our towns and cities to be used as a cash cow to prop up council budgets?

[BovGregg]

so what happens when there are 3 average speed cameras?
On the igo8 it switches off after the second one & then back on when reaching the 3rd & stays on unless you physically turn it off.

[M8TJT]

Because it's incorrect handling of SPECS by iGO. They seem to think they only come in pairs. Rubbish. I programmed mine around that particular shortcoming.
SPECS actually work by checking your speed between any two cams. So in your case between cam 1 & 2 and then between cams 2 & 3 which iGO fails to do, as you have found. They must work like that, otherwise there is no point in having a series of three.

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