SPECS cameras on motorways

score

Hi, there I wanted to know what happerns if one of these cameras that do average speed checking flash if you won't eceedeing the tempoary limt in place.

Is it normal for these to flash?
Can these cameras also catch people in the hardshoulder?

exup

average speed cameras dont flash - they check on the time it takes for you to travel between one camera to the next and work out your average speed between the sites - or series of sites.

Kilty_2

AFAIK they flash at every car passing them if they need to, using ANPR to log the registration so it can be checked at later cameras (they work based on time, not speed)

DaveMacD

SPECS cameras don't flash. They use IR lamps to illuminate the area below them. They are usually mounted on yellow posts at the roadside. They can catch anyone in the area they are monitoring, early models could be fooled by changing lane, but newer models have been improved to offset this.

Are you sure the flash wasn't a reflection of the lamps.

Kilty_2

DaveMacD wrote: »

Are you sure the flash wasn't a reflection of the lamps.

Could've been this, I'm sure I saw them flashing though the last time I drove past some.

TheEffects

Hi there,

These are the yellow cameras with the flash attched to them ant they.

Don't theses flash if as you are going past them if you are speeding or in the hardshoulder trying to avoid these?

correct me if im wrong I thouht they flash if somone is in the wrong as you approach these?

Hintza

TheEffects wrote: »

Hi there,

These are the yellow cameras with the flash attched to them ant they.

Don't theses flash if as you are going past them if you are speeding or in the hardshoulder trying to avoid these?

correct me if im wrong I thouht they flash if somone is in the wrong as you approach these?

No; those are gatso cameras.

zax47

All, read this;

http://www.ukspeedcameras.co.uk/guide.htm

Learn about all the different types, how they work, which ones flash etc. etc.

TheEffects

So these cameras don't flash but as in other posts have said that it is the reflection of the lenses as you pass the specs yellow camera thinking that it flashed at you.

Is this correct?
Also when these cameras were installed it was later noted that speed checks could be avoided by changing lane. has this be fixed now?

CHR15

TheEffects wrote: »

Also when these cameras were installed it was later noted that speed checks could be avoided by changing lane. has this be fixed now?

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flang

Specs 1 - Can be confused by lane changing
Specs 2 - Fixed this problem
Specs 3 - Same as specs 2 but cameras do not require connecting wires resulting in lower install costs
Specs cameras do not flash and do work in the dark using infrared technology.
Speed cameras on the M25/M20/M42 are not average speed but do flash from behind.