Just paid a ticket from one yesterday. Are you sure they do a shot of the rear. They all seemed to be aimed at oncoming traffic especially the ones in the back of vans. I have heard before they shoot front and back but the way they are set up facing oncoming traffic I can't see it.
Alan p.s. where is home for you David? I'm in Queenstown
David Mann wrote:
On Feb 11, 2004, at 12:18, mike wilson wrote:
There are a number of examples here, in NE England, where a camera is on a pole in the central reservation and is swivelled to cover either lane. In both instances, the camera takes the rear of the vehicle. No front number plates on motorcycles here, too.
In NZ there are several types of camera and AFAIK they all record both oncoming and receding traffic.
Amazing - has there ever been any incidents of accidents caused by an oncoming speed camera flash? It must be waiting to happen...
Can't be any worse than sneezing, hiccuping, lighting a fag, tuning the radio, spilling coffee or any of the other things I see people doing whilst driving. Not usually all together but.....
The flashes on our speed cameras are filtered with an orange-yellow filter which apparently makes them much less dazzling/distracting. I've never seen one go off so I wouldn't know. NZ number plates are black-on-white and are made to reflect very efficiently, so the actual flash power required would be pretty low.
One of the TV networks here is playing Top Gear (UK motoring show) - the episodes are about a year old now. On an episode screened here a few weeks ago, they tested a speed camera on their track to see just how fast you had to be driving so that the camera wouldn't detect you. I don't remember the result... it was something like 160mph.
Cheers,
- Dave
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