New type of speed camrea ?

James_Lahey

Nice photoshop work GolfBravo!

Mr_Toad

GolfBravo wrote: »

Oh dear, new speed camera spotted on M25!

Nah, it's a hoax, you can't go fast enough on the M25 to need speed cameras

GolfBravo

OMG! If you look closely at the image below, these new speed cameras are already installed on the M25!

James_Lahey

Okay, now you're just showing off!

muckybutt

Mr_Toad wrote: »

The original post was either misguided or malicious.

What is misguided or malicious about asking if it was a new type of camera ?

It's a thread I saw on FB, a thread I thought was false so decided to open it up on here to see if anyone new owt about it or them.

As I thought correctly it is false as to them being on the A52 and not currently in the uk and that the photos are faked.

Cheers !!!!!! :beer:

Wig

Mr_Toad wrote: »

They also use these on Spanish roads.



I wonder how long it'll be before someone uses Photoshop to hide the fact that it's left hand drive and announces that these cars are being used in the UK?

I think that's a brilliant photoshop already, I think the bending of the light over the bulge gives it away, but also the HUGE expense of re-moulding a car door to fit a camera inside is just unrealistic. And if it was the case you would expect it to appear on this page of Spanish cameras, -note they say the one in our OP is in Switzerland and not currently in use in Spain- They also show the types of car-cameras that the Spanish authorities actully use.

In my reading on the subject there were quite a few who said these (crash barrier type) are not speed cameras but traffic density measuring devices.

The Malaysian page is 2012 and is just another hoax page, look at the bottom pics on that page, he has placed a silver painted cardboard shoe box with a lens in it and a bit of electric cable on a roadside barrier and taken photos of it :rotfl:

We will never know until someone finds the actual camera in the original pic or the train line in the background and the country that uses crash barriers like that.

System

I wonder if somebody has got the wrong end of the stick.
At http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/doc.asp?c=16&i=15875 there is a picture of a new system being used in Switzerland (2007 article), This shows that weird thing on the barrier, however the actual device is the one in the middle of the picture and I think the item in the foreground has nothing to do with it and is purely traffic monitoring. Device details can be found on the manfr site http://www.cesag.com/page_23_1

GolfBravo

Bad news.

Unfortunately this isn't a hoax. :eek:

The guardrail in the original post contains a Swiss-made Pulsed Laser Scanner LMS 291 (range 20m, 10-300km). The actual camera is positioned away from the laser unit.

Manufacturer's PDF brochure

How it works (LIDAR)
The Traffic-Observer laser scanner operates on the principle of pulsation runtime measuring: A pulsed laser beam is emitted. If it hits an object, it is reflected and registered in the receiver of the scanner. The time between the emission and the reception of the impulse is directly proportional to the distance between scanner and the object (time of flight).
By means of an internal cheval glass, the laser beam is diverted and the environment is scanned in a fan-shaped way (laser radar).
From the series of the received impulses, the contour of the object is computed. The measuring data are ready for further assessment in real time at the interface. In the scanner, an automatic fog correction is active. Rain drops or snow flakes are blanked via a pixel-oriented assessment.
The computed and measured data are made available in real time and are shown directly in the picture.

Yorkie1

I don't think it's got type approval here so won't appear on our roads unless / until that happens, though.

System

So unlike all the articles that we have found try to intimate, it is not just a little box built in to a barrier but a visible structure that most people would probably recognise as a speed camera.

So no change there then, it is still a visible (subject to other street furniture etc) speed camera and not an underhand device.