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May 6th, 2019, 14:09 | #101 |
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I wander how smart the cameras are.
I was coming back from Yorkshire this weekend. Speed limiter/cruise set to 70mph along the M1. It was a nice yet boring 70mph drive there and back. On the way back, some idiot was tearing along in a white VW, went through the camera at the same time as me and got flashed. Are the cameras smart enough to know which is the offending vehicle? I saved the incident from the dash cam (which also has speed enabled) to the computer incase I get lumbered with a ticket in error.
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May 6th, 2019, 16:30 | #102 | |
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So in your case, your car will have travelled a certain distance. The other car will have travelled twice as far if he's going twice as fast, so they will know who is the offender. |
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May 6th, 2019, 21:26 | #104 |
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Just after they opened up the Smart Motorway section through Northamptonshire I was on the Northbound when five cars went battering through the speed Camera that flashed all of em in one go... It'd be interesting to see if all of them got done or just the first one to get detected.
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May 6th, 2019, 21:40 | #105 |
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Like Canis said, there is a grid/set of lines for the caera to have a distance reference relative to the time between shots.
There are 5280ft in a mile, 60mph = 1 mile a minute or 88ft/sec, 75mph will be 110ft/sec and 90mph = 132ft/sec so you can see how they can easily relate distance to speed if they know how close the camera shots are. If two cars are caught in different lanes by the same camera, if one is at or below the speed limit then the distance traveled between shots will be proprtional to the time between the shots, conversely if the distance traveled is far in excess of what it would be at the legal limit plus an amount for the speedo error then that car is obviously speeding. If you were at or below the speed limit (or even a smidge over) i wouldn't worry unduly.
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