Road sign shows my numberplate

SaLoGo

MoneyMate wrote: »

Hi you are usually given 10% grace eg/ 33 mph, sounds like you may received something in the post.

warehouse wrote: »

Can we please stop this myth right now? I was given a £60 fine and 3 penalty points for doing 33mph in a 30 zone.

I recently attended a speed awareness course for doing a similar speed. There is 0% grace!

shaun_from_Africa

SaLoGo wrote: »

There is 0% grace!

Yes there is.
The equipment that the police use has an accuracy of +/- 2mph at speeds up to 66mph and 3% above this, so any ticket issued within the tolerance band is invalid.

Section 9.7 of the following document shows this.

http://www.acpo.police.uk/documents/uniformed/2013/201305-uoba-speed-enf-safer-roads.pdf

OddballJamie

warehouse wrote: »

Can we please stop this myth right now? I was given a £60 fine and 3 penalty points for doing 33mph in a 30 zone.

Also depends on your speedo accuracy. The camera registered 33 but your speedo could have been reading 36/37.

InsideInsurance

Cornucopia wrote: »

The car park at the O2 has just been upgraded and now prints your reg number on the parking ticket.

Not sure what this does for them, but it's pretty clever technology.

There are several carparks that do, in Westfield and Airports you can see the cameras in a small bollard type thing just beyond the barrier.

For airports, it allows prepayment, I guess for other carparks it stops people staying over 24 hours and then claiming to have lost the ticket and getting reduced rates or stops people switching tickets.

Of cause the simply capturing the registration for them could be used for market research as they'll be able to monitor repeat visitors, DVLA will give the make and model of the car without questions all of which could be useful demographic information.

For some reason the carpark machines sometimes miss the first letter of my registration plate. Never causes a problem leaving

Iceweasel

OddballJamie wrote: »

Also depends on your speedo accuracy. The camera registered 33 but your speedo could have been reading 36/37.

Your speedo accuracy is easily checked against a sat-nav.

Expect to be surprised.

Best done (and safest) at a steady speed on a motorway.

OddballJamie

Iceweasel wrote: »

Your speedo accuracy is easily checked against a sat-nav.

Expect to be surprised.

Best done (and safest) at a steady speed on a motorway.

I've checked mine before, 70 on speedo shows 68 using gps, I'll have to run it again when I swap wheels over.

From the factory the tolerances are quite large, think Lum posted them a while back.

spacey2012

57,000 were hit on AVG cameras on the M62 for speeds over 53 in a 50.
The 10% thing has long gone.

tykesi

The car park where I work checks your reg and displays it on a screen along with which lane you should be in to enter. Hardly clever technology, ANPR has been around for years.

Cornucopia

Clever - yes and no. I'm from a previous generation of IT people who wondered whether we would ever be able to do such things. It seems the answer was: yes.

Perhaps we should have asked whether we should do such things?