Repost? Speed camera game.

[Lankytim]

www.speedcam.co.uk/game.htm

Fun, maybe it will keep us in practice for the real thing!

Stolen from the Volvo club forum.

[reanimation]

That is fuggin scary. It is outragous, and out of order.

Quick reminder to sign the petitions in my signature before big brother really strikes!

[arthurbrown]

13/19

Which probably goes some way to explaining why I've been knobbled twice by the stealth van cams.

[reanimation]

14/19 for the record but i'm about to get knobbled as i'm usually watching for dangers in the road, not spot the ball!



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[tigran]

Most of those are in Bournemouth as well.

Mammaries!

15/19 fairly curse word at the ammount of times the bacon are illegally parked, and simple white van on the motorway/dual carriageway is a bit out of order.

[BenzBoy]

12/19.
Bye bye driving licence

Shocking tactics employed in some of those photos, but then maybe they were taken before the rules on speed trap visibility came in?

I'll avoid going into a rant about speed traps

[Lankytim]

I would have spotted them all, but id be so preoccupied I would have run over a few small children.


its all about the ££££££££ people!

Hows about a 30 second Gatso quickie relief, www.speedcam.co.uk/gatso2.htm

[80mojo]

17 out of 19! ;D

didn't get the foreign one, but penalties abroad don't affect your license here as I understand it.

That on on the A41 (number 6) is on a roundabout in Aylesbury. causes a right kerfuffle for cars trying to join the roundabout.

[Lankytim]

80mojo said:

didn't get the foreign one, but penalties abroad don't affect your license here as I understand it.

In the EU they do!

[bstardchild]

14/19 but to be honest some of the locations were just mad.......

[skoda_norman]

14/19

on the one with the police van parked right near the roundabout...wasnt that the one where someone approached them with a videocamera nd told them they were illegally parked? IIRC they got quite angry and swiftly moved ;D

some of those locations were just unbelievable.

i went through one today in a driving lesson, thankfully the instructor knew it was there, coz it was parked in a row of parked cars on a little side road off the main road.

nobs

[reanimation]

How much do you need to spend to get a gadget to detect these? does anyone know, and will that gadget detect em all. i feel the need to invest...

[daverapid]

I spotted the 1st 2 cameras but cos I was watching the speedo and the cameras I wrote the car off before I got to the 3rd camera!

[Lankytim]

you can get gadgets that detect gatsos and the lazer style speed traps like the ones featured in this game, but by the time the gadgets detected the lazer from the speed gun its already too late

[tigran]

There is another way. Say you have access to an automatic opening door, and say you have the little transmitter in your car behind the grille to open it, there are devices available which will accidentally block the laser signal of the camera and give you a warning giving you time to slow down. However if you're caught with one and you don't have an automatic door you are royally boned.

Worth getting a garage door like that at the uni house just for that.

p.s. I presume that is how these cameras read your speed. If not move to moscow where you can easily get out of a speeding infringement with a 20 dollar note.

[reanimation]

these sites mobile sides have to have a warning 'police check area' type sign yeah?

interesting info btw

[trg1984]

camera detectors are going to be made illegal this year. i got 11/19 bit worrying but what can u do, no point wingeing about it, if u speed and get caught then its tough really

[tigran]

Not really, when many of these speed limits are totally archaeic! For modern cars/modified retros at least.

[reanimation]

its the daft stuff that people have done not thinking, driving dangerously, or obscenely fast that has made the stats on black spots.

I have a second user sat nav for xmas but will eventually get one that does a bit more detecting. eyes on the road FTW.

[MWF]

tigran said:

Not really, when many of these speed limits are totally archaeic! For modern cars/modified retros at least.

hmmmmm I'm not sure if I agree with that Tigran. I would certainly agree that stopping distances have vastly improved over time and clearly impact protection has too. But people will always make mistakes and speed limits help reduce the impact those mistakes have.

We all tend to imagine that we'll have time to react in an accident but it's not always the case.

I'm a supporter of speed cameras when they are effective. But I do question just how effective hiding them away actually is. I think this is a great way of penalising those who are excessively over the limit however I think it's overly harsh on those to penalise those who've crept over. I'd like to know how much tolerance they give with these types of cameras.