thirdcrank wrote:There's at least one book been published purporting to have been written by a retired police officer with all the stuff "they don't want you to know." One of my neighbours is convinced that the speed cameras on so-called "intelligent motorways" where there's a variable speed limit can only be calibrated for one speed and that's normally 50mph so anything else is unenforceable. Again, I really have no idea.
The intelligent motorways used to have standard speed cameras that could only be set for one speed. While they sometimes set them for different speeds, and used the correct camera according to the speed limit, in 2014, they began replacing them with digital enforcement cameras. These are not traditional speed cameras. They have two digital radar units in them, and a computer calculates the speed of any vehicle. They also don't need the little white lines, which is why when sections with these new cameras are resurfaced, the speed camera line are not always repainted.
These cameras are also more accurate, so the 'limit' at which fixed penalty notices will be issued may have changed. Digital enforcement cameras are now in place on the M1 and M25 where variable speed limit are used.
http://www.redflex.com/index.php/en/med ... cs-cameras are the most commonly used cameras, but there is a brand made in the Netherlands as well. I have forgotten the name of it.
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