[Travel] Speed cameras that detect braking.

[AmexRuislip]

A new type of speed camera is being trialled in some Spanish regions that can seemingly detect when a vehicle brakes sharply prior to it passing the device.

The introduction of the new high-tech devices is all part of a drive to cut mortality rates on the famously fast Spanish highways. The new scheme is being ushered in by the Directorate-General for Traffic, part of the Spanish Department of the Interior.

How long before they hit the UK

https://www.visordown.com/news/general/new-speed-camera-‘detect’-vehicles-braking-they-approach

 

[wuntbedruv]

I worked for a subsidiary company of the group that builds the average speed cameras

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[wuntbedruv]

I worked for a subsidiary company of the group that builds the average speed cameras

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WOW....You are not allowed to swear on here

Give us a B give us an A give us a S

 

[Whoislloydy]

Sweden just implemented a new speed camera that clocks the plate of every car that passed through.

If you are at or under the limit, you are entered into a lottery that is paid out with the fines of speeders. Genius idea.

EDIT: Seems i've been caught out my some fake news. Ignore this. It was tried as a PR stunt 10 years ago. Still a good idea.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Sweden just implemented a new speed camera that clocks the plate of every car that passed through.

If you are at or under the limit, you are entered into a lottery that is paid out with the fines of speeders. Genius idea.

Great idea

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I worked for a subsidiary company of the group that builds the average speed cameras

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I think you need to expand a bit on your credentials, here, wuntbe. Was that the company that designed the chip that controls the detection, or the company that paints the thing yellow?

 

[wellquickwoody]

Surely the offence is to BREAK the speed limit, ie go too fast. Or will there be a new offence of ‘excessive BRAKING to avoid detection’?

 

[AmexRuislip]

Surely the offence is to BREAK the speed limit, ie go too fast. Or will there be a new offence of ‘excessive BRAKING to avoid detection’?

Or just have a car that does Mach 2 then the cameras will be left blinking!

 

[Is it PotG?]

We need to put a stop to this.

 

[A1X]

…or just don’t speed.

That might work.

 

[wuntbedruv]

I think you need to expand a bit on your credentials, here, wuntbe. Was that the company that designed the chip that controls the detection, or the company that paints the thing yellow?

Don't know about the pole, but the optics,electronics the sensors and the box it all sits in

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Don't know about the pole, but the optics,electronics the sensors and the box it all sits in

Thank goodness for that.

 

[Swansman]

Sweden just implemented a new speed camera that clocks the plate of every car that passed through.

If you are at or under the limit, you are entered into a lottery that is paid out with the fines of speeders. Genius idea.

No. We tried that ten years ago or so in some cities, as part of some PR campaign by Volkswagen (I think it was?).

Decent idea but unfortunately (?) politicians etc were not interested in continuing, for various reasons (once the novelty wears off this 'lottery' does nothing, also it rewards people for driving which really isnt what were trying to do here).

 

[AmexRuislip]

No. We tried that ten years ago or so in some cities, as part of some PR campaign by Volkswagen (I think it was?).

Decent idea but unfortunately (?) politicians etc were not interested in continuing, for various reasons (once the novelty wears off this 'lottery' does nothing, also it rewards people for driving which really isnt what were trying to do here).

Haven't they upgraded the lottery to free pizzas!

 

[wuntbedruv]

Thank goodness for that.

Don't know about that, they said they couldn't programme the thing to ignore OUR number plates

 

[zefarelly]

…or just don’t speed.

That might work.

This

The limits are too low in many places however

Also too high in others. . .

I'd much rather see an Aussie Hard approach outside schools for example . . . But on motorways and dual carriageways, in the middle of nowhere . . . 80 is the norm, so make it the limit

 

[zefarelly]

Don't know about the pole, but the optics,electronics the sensors and the box it all sits in

Solidworks?

 

[pwlr1966]

Speeding

On the Algarve, they have sensors, that when approaching, even at a fair distance to the traffic light, they change to red, if you are travelling above the speed limit - even before you reach them, causing you and whoever is behind you to stop and wait. Whoever is at the front of the queue is the bad boi and should be ashamed of themselves. I would like to see these types of traffic calming over here.

 

[LamieRobertson]

A new type of speed camera is being trialled in some Spanish regions that can seemingly detect when a vehicle brakes sharply prior to it passing the device.

The introduction of the new high-tech devices is all part of a drive to cut mortality rates on the famously fast Spanish highways. The new scheme is being ushered in by the Directorate-General for Traffic, part of the Spanish Department of the Interior.

How long before they hit the UK

https://www.visordown.com/news/general/new-speed-camera-‘detect’-vehicles-braking-they-approach

If we are talking speed they won’t be in use on the M25 then

 

[GrizzlingGammon]

Haven't they upgraded the lottery to free pizzas!

And weed!