[AWSAWS]

Now I know all you guys will have your cruise control set to 69, just to be safe on motorways but just as a heads up here's some info on new speed cameras which will be rolled out to other locations later. Many people have been caught out already. For one they just look like a benign camera monitoring traffic flows. Not coloured yellow etc. They are also variable speed.

http://www.sevenoakschronicle.co.uk/...ail/story.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-maga...nitor-30841666



Once marked by GPS on a map they shouldn't be too much of a concern but there may be some guinea pigs before they get noted.

[djgandy]

I've seen a few of these, I am keeping my eye out a lot more for them these days. Sneaky. Not sure how they work when the variable speed is different in each lane either.

[dy63]

are you a journalist?

[AWSAWS]

Me? Nope. Why?

Detailed info. They are dual radar:
http://www.redflex.com/index.php/en/...hadecs-cameras

[GOWRIN]

They have these on the M25, and when they do show 40/50 I still see people flying past but I slow down just in case :/

[AWSAWS]

Originally Posted by GOWRIN

They have these on the M25, and when they do show 40/50 I still see people flying past but I slow down just in case :/

Yes I've always worried about the Gantry gatsos as well when I see people flying under those at 90. I hear they aren't on until the speed limit gets reduced but I'd never risk it.

[djgandy]

Originally Posted by AWSAWS

Yes I've always worried about the Gantry gatsos as well when I see people flying under those at 90. I hear they aren't on until the speed limit gets reduced but I'd never risk it.

The gantry Gatsos rarely appear to do anything, the amount of people I see doing 80 through the 40 makes me think they are just there for show. I see them flash for people within the law that's about it. I've been flashed a few times myself also.

They do piss me off when I have to brake to 40 for no reason at 8 in the evening, then the next gantry says NSL again. It's tempting to get a dashcam and use google maps to show how much they abuse these things.

[GOWRIN]

Originally Posted by AWSAWS

Yes I've always worried about the Gantry gatsos as well when I see people flying under those at 90. I hear they aren't on until the speed limit gets reduced but I'd never risk it.

People still speed when the speed limit is reduced. The time I do it I probably will get flashed, it's like waiting to get you lol.
But you can do 80 on the fast lane and it doesn't flash so that's as far as I'll go near them.

[Hotcoupe]

The ones noted below are very active especially when the speed advisories/limits are showing on the gantries above:

The Chronicle can reveal there are two operational speed cameras – around a mile either side of Clacketts Lane – in both directions, meaning motorists heading in both directions can be clocked twice in a matter of minutes.

Once you get used to their presence,they soon become an irrelevance

[AWSAWS]

Originally Posted by djgandy

The gantry Gatsos rarely appear to do anything, the amount of people I see doing 80 through the 40 makes me think they are just there for show. I see them flash for people within the law that's about it. I've been flashed a few times myself also.

They do piss me off when I have to brake to 40 for no reason at 8 in the evening, then the next gantry says NSL again. It's tempting to get a dashcam and use google maps to show how much they abuse these things.

The only time I've seen one (a gantry gatso) flash was when a police car was doing about 140mph heading the other way with the blues and twos going.

[Sparky68]

Speed cameras, spawn of the devil!

[AWSAWS]

Originally Posted by Sparky68

Speed cameras, spawn of the devil!

I thought Humans were the spawn of the devil Agent Smith

[Sparky68]

Speed cameras are part of the matrix

[AWBimmer]

Day I had my car remapped, I just got carried away and was doing 95mph one time when a camera one one lane of m25 flashed... but only once.

Got home and read that anything above 95mph it would have flashed twice and that's when I would have been charged. One flash is purely to warn you to not speed.

I have added more weight to my boot now to slow it down LOLL.

Another money making scheme it seems. More money into the pockets of old farting politicians

[Sparky68]

I think it actually goes to the council whose district it is in, could be wrong though.

[Iyrix]

These are going up on the M3. All part of the new smart motorways.

Tbh, if it improves traffic during the morning I wont mind.

Will they be active on national speed?

[AWSAWS]

Originally Posted by Iyrix

These are going up on the M3. All part of the new smart motorways.

Tbh, if it improves traffic during the morning I wont mind.

Will they be active on national speed?

I think they will from some post I have been reading.

[AWSAWS]

Originally Posted by AWBimmer

Day I had my car remapped, I just got carried away and was doing 95mph one time when a camera one one lane of m25 flashed... but only once.

Got home and read that anything above 95mph it would have flashed twice and that's when I would have been charged. One flash is purely to warn you to not speed.

I have added more weight to my boot now to slow it down LOLL.

Another money making scheme it seems. More money into the pockets of old farting politicians

Well I've never heard of that?

I once set a speed camera off on the opposite side of the road. Two blinding flashes in my face at night. Luckily I never heard anything about it.

[Ao1]

The next stage of “SMART” motorways will be the integration of car locations that will be obtained by cars transmitting their location. I don’t think it will be that far away before cameras are obsolete. Your car will report you for speeding. Most of the technology is already available in new cars to do this. The next phase will be the car automatically slowing down if you exceed the speed limit and then it will be auto driving.

You can already get insurance based on how you drive. Everything is recorded. Route, time, speed, driving style. The technology is already available. Nearly all major lorry fleets use it now to monitor their drivers.

[AWSAWS]

Originally Posted by Ao1

The next stage of “SMART” motorways will be the integration of car locations that will be obtained by cars transmitting their location. I don’t think it will be that far away before cameras are obsolete. Your car will report you for speeding. Most of the technology is already available in new cars to do this. The next phase will be the car automatically slowing down if you exceed the speed limit and then it will be auto driving.

You can already get insurance based on how you drive. Everything is recorded. Route, time, speed, driving style. The technology is already available. Nearly all major lorry fleets use it now to monitor their drivers.

Sickening isn't it!