New digital speed cameras warning (1 Viewer)

[TheBig1]

In Dorset there is an ongoing process to update all the old film speed cameras to digital. Also happening in other areas too, but I only know about the local ones. The warning is that these new digital Redflex cameras are much more capable. Being digital they combine processes and can catch speeders in both directions and also operate as average speed cameras where 2 or more are fitted on a stretch of road, even different side of the road. They no longer need road markings and communicate with the central server immediately using 4g and 5g where available

Oh and one camera can simultaneously monitor 6 lanes and identify each vehicle speeding or jumping a red light or stopping in a hatched box.

Be warned technology is replacing the possibility of getting away with speeding. Spoke to a guy who knows such things and he says the ability for ANPR is off on most of these cameras, but can be done at the press of a button on the server

 

[Yorick]

Better advice would be to tell folk not to speed

 

[PaddyM]

Better advice would be to tell folk not to speed

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[tofo]

Better advice would be to tell folk not to speed

thinking they have been trying to slow us down since the red flag

i think in most cases
you seem to speed less
as your years advance

 

[Kannon Fodda]

I find that instead of cruise control, I am constantly using the speed limiter function on my vehicles. The safe way so you can keep your eyes on the road, rather than having to focus on your speedo in case you have a heavy left foot.

But it does seem that increasingly the road planners are doing everything possible to reduce speeds. Speed limits are no longer implemented just in the name of safety, but also now simply to limit traffic flows in the name of environmentalism. And don't get me started on how some traffic lights seem to get replaced with the aim of blocking traffic. It seems the pelican crossing's days are numbered being replaced with lights that keep traffic stopped even when most pedestrians will have long since cleared the way.

 

[Yorick]

Thanks for your valuable input

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[Abacist]

People will speed unless there is enforcement just as there are those who will steal, rape and any other sort of lawbreaking! If it takes automation to do it, due to the lack of police, then that's what is sensible.

I am seeing an awful lot of unmarked police cars stopping vehicles for one reason or another in Devon on the major roads and I predominantly drive between Torbay, Exeter, Plymouth, Newton Abbot. High performance Skodas and BMW's so be warned.

The old style camera on the A380 Exeter bound on the left hand bend about a mile before Telegraph Hill where one can regularly see deer at dusk on the grass verge has now been removed in recent roadworks.

 

[TheBig1]

Better advice would be to tell folk not to speed

I am not the sort of person who feels the need to tell others what they should do or not. I am purely offering advice to the members here that there are new cameras to watch out for. It is down to them what they do about the advice

Being a race instructor, you are well aware that speed does not kill, it is lack of ability to drive safely

 

[mitzimad]

I am not the sort of person who feels the need to tell others what they should do or not. I am purely offering advice to the members here that there are new cameras to watch out for. It is down to them what they do about the advice

Being a race instructor, you are well aware that speed does not kill, it is lack of ability to drive safely

top notch driving skills will not protect the pedestrians and bike rider if you take formula 1 as the pinnacle of driving skills they still crash

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[TheBig1]

top notch driving skills will not protect the pedestrians and bike rider if you take formula 1 as the pinnacle of driving skills they still crash

formula 1 is hardly the pinnacle of driving ability, and any pedestrians and cyclists on the race track should not be there

Driving skills include knowing if or when it is safe to drive fast. Knowing several emergency services personnel they say most accidents are caused by lack of care and attention and poor maintenance of vehicles

 

[Yorick]

57% of accidents are caused by dodgy statistics

 

[Googlebot]

formula 1 is hardly the pinnacle of driving ability, and any pedestrians and cyclists on the race track should not be there

Driving skills include knowing if or when it is safe to drive fast. Knowing several emergency services personnel they say most accidents are caused by lack of care and attention and poor maintenance of vehicles

I don’t disagree, however in my experience crashes at the speed limit result in everyone walking away....

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[Abacist]

I don’t disagree, however in my experience crashes at the speed limit result in everyone walking away....

That's at 20MPH and 30MPH speed limits but not above that as far as pedestrians and cyclists are concerned

 

[ElliesBoss]

I find that instead of cruise control, I am constantly using the speed limiter function on my vehicles. The safe way so you can keep your eyes on the road, rather than having to focus on your speedo in case you have a heavy left foot.

But it does seem that increasingly the road planners are doing everything possible to reduce speeds. Speed limits are no longer implemented just in the name of safety, but also now simply to limit traffic flows in the name of environmentalism. And don't get me started on how some traffic lights seem to get replaced with the aim of blocking traffic. It seems the pelican crossing's days are numbered being replaced with lights that keep traffic stopped even when most pedestrians will have long since cleared the way.

 

[ElliesBoss]

I find when I put my foot on the clutch that the vehicle doesn't move very fast at all

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[Charlie57]

That's at 20MPH and 30MPH speed limits but not above that as far as pedestrians and cyclists are concerned

Thats why its 30 in a built up area give the vulnerable a chance to survive.

 

[Abacist]

Thats why its 30 in a built up area give the vulnerable a chance to survive.

I am well aware of that! My point was that pedestrians and cyclists have little chance of survival on any speed limits other than those at 20 and 30mph. i.e. 40MPH and above!

 

[Charlie57]

Its unlikely you would survive if hit at 39 mph

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[63720]

Everybody speeds at some point only the unlucky ones get caught.

 

[Bolti]

Take a step from my village and you walk in the road 60 mph speed limit. You even have to wait for the bus on the road.

 

[Odd job]

thinking they have been trying to slow us down since the red flag

i think in most cases
you seem to speed less
as your years advance

I used to drive up to 40,000 miles a year for work, I never had a speeding ticket and still got around my calls, apart from doing 80 on a motorway I didn't speed, and most people did 80 on motorways back then

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[buttons]

We've had these for some time, driving can be a challenge. It all depends on the speed limit signage. If this is bad or non existent as it can be, then driving concentration can be distracted while spending too much time looking for camera's. I have some tech assistance but you still have to keep your eye on the ball. Points last 3/4 years which is a long time when driving every day. I probably drive through 100 cameras every day which becomes a pain.

 

[DiggerJon]

I find it strange that my now “sedate” driving style and use of the speed limiter button does not seem to make my journey time significantly slower compared to my “I have to get to my appointment” style driving from my peripatetic working days. It’s a fact that you have to double your speed to halve your journey time - so the faster you go, the faster you have to go to save less time! I’ll finish moralising now and try and keep my 53 year old clean licence intact!

 

[PaddyM]

Thanks for your valuable input

Always happy to help , here’s another little pointer for you re speed.

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[Richard n Ann]

Nowadays if you drive faster you just reach the next tailback or traffic light queue sooner. You can make up time on the motorway sometimes though.

 

[Clipgate]

Digital speed cameras, linked to the new breed of road signs, then linked to your onboard ECU will resolve the cost of enforcement.
Less mouths to feed, more cheap ( relatively) technology means manpower saved.
Unfortunately making progress has been taught by those that have little ability to make sound judgements, and interpreted by inexperienced drivers as a target speed not a limit.

 

[2x2camper]

In Dorset there is an ongoing process to update all the old film speed cameras to digital. Also happening in other areas too, but I only know about the local ones. The warning is that these new digital Redflex cameras are much more capable. Being digital they combine processes and can catch speeders in both directions and also operate as average speed cameras where 2 or more are fitted on a stretch of road, even different side of the road. They no longer need road markings and communicate with the central server immediately using 4g and 5g where available

Oh and one camera can simultaneously monitor 6 lanes and identify each vehicle speeding or jumping a red light or stopping in a hatched box.

Be warned technology is replacing the possibility of getting away with speeding. Spoke to a guy who knows such things and he says the ability for ANPR is off on most of these cameras, but can be done at the press of a button on the server

What is the problem?

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[2x2camper]

Thats why its 30 in a built up area give the vulnerable a chance to survive.

I'd rather it was 20. Although to be honest I'd rather not be hit at all.

 

[Yorick]

Always happy to help , here’s another little pointer for you re speed.

I didn't get the relevance of that.?

 

[ShaKen]

Everybody speeds at some point only the unlucky ones get caught.

I think it comes down to where you speed.

If you speed a bit on a motorway in good conditions, then so be it. If you get caught then of course you deserve points / fine.

But if you speed in towns, past schools, in densely populated areas, then you need the book thrown at you.

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