These: - are apparently on trial in the UK... :frown: A bugger to see, they are also a good height for paint/tar attacks and/or a petrol soaked pallet or two underneath? :smile:
There's one of those round my way. It was highly publicised at the time (so we all know it's there) and for some weird reason, it is right next to a conventional Gatso, which sort of gives the game away. However, in the UK, they'll have to paint the yellow lines on the road, so you'll know when to brake. They don't do that here, so a sneaky Gatso like that one would be very hard (or impossible) to spot - until it was too late. No end to the police, tax-collecting state.
50cal or 20mm cannon? I can't tell. I'd need to know the relevant muzzle velocities before deciding to risk it.
Those pics have been posted around the internet for some while. A colleague from Germany referred them to me a few months ago & said they may actually be photos of some kind of sensor for a static camera somewhere in Switzerland - pretty much in keeping with Glid having seen them.
There was discussion recently about the obsolete film based Gatso's being replaced by a new generation of digital cameras. It looks like the war against the motorist is back on.
i dont believe they would be allowed to put anything into the structure of the crash barrier ......other than crash barrier......
Indeed. It is the one near here (which I am just about to drive past in a few mins). On the less close-up shots it's easy to recognise. "Speed measuring device" eh? Er, isn't that what you get in a speed camera? Have never understood why it is used in conjunction with the one on the pole. The police PP presentation was widely circulated at the time - to let us all know that they'd installed about 15 speed cameras between Lausanne and Geneva. TBH, it's made life easier: traffic is more fluid, less people screaming along and banging on their brakes (it's a very congested bit of motorway), fewer unmarked (or marked) police cars, and if you are late for a plane and know where the cameras are, doesn't interfere too much with your progress. As for "on trial" - does that still count after 6 years or so?
No it wont not in the structure of the crash barrier. Its specifically designed to collapse and absorb an impact.......anything else added (as we have tried to do recently) will effect the integrity of the barrier and ultimately run the risk of local Authorities being sued if someone was injured from it. Besides you could stick them up on a stalk, paint them bright blue and bright yellow, put a sign up to say that there is a camera nearby......and people would still pass them at speed.
Never say never. Might not be in the next six montha. Might not be in the next six years. But trust me it will happen. :smile:
I still don't understand exactly what it is doing that a normal speed camera isn't. As I said, there are speed cameras every few miles between Lausanne and Geneva, but only one of these things. I don't know of any others.
Sounds to me that at some point they will take down the ones on poles and just leave the "covert" ones.
and hide them between road signs, overgrown bushes, hedges, trees, around corners, or simply keep changing the speed limit, or move the speed limit signs forward by 50 metres or so...funny how they only got painted after so much public pressure....its almost as if the authorities were trying to catch out motorists. still i suppose its no worse than 'traffic safety operatives' hiding in bushes, parking on the pavement, parking on double yellow lines, parking on cross hatching, parking on bridges, parking on pavements behind lamp posts, parking on pavements behind trees, parking in concealed driveways, parking in private driveways when the homeowners are not there, stuff like that.
Is it very wrong of me to think that I might want to get out of my car and kick the hilariously funny comedian in the goolies?
