Different Types Of Speed Camera
There are many different cameras patrolling the road which may all have a very different way of delivering a speeding fine to unlucky drivers. The following, attempts to clear up what they are and how they’re built to issue a ticket. Please be aware there are other techniques that the police force will use but I want to outline the most applicable.
Current Speeding Cameras
The Gatso
The most well known of all diverse cameras now in action, The Gatos will activate once you go in to the speeding trap i.e. The white lines you drive over as you drive away from the camera. A radar beam is projected on to the vehicle which tracks the rate and if you are over the local road limit two photographs are taken to check the clarity under all circumstances.
The Truvelo
The Truvelo is a forward facing camera, the basic idea behind this is that it’s easier to make a prosecution if you’ve got a image of the driver as well as the license. Unlike the Gatso that has a flash and is so considered unsafe for forward facing photographs, the Truvelo uses infrared technology for an unseen flash. This joined with under road pressure loops that sense a passing cars speed on approach with no prior caution to you make this a formidable camera. You can never know you have been spotteduntil after it is too late!
Specs Camera
The specs cameras are basically used to enforce a speeding restriction spanning a stretch of road usually a motorway or dual carriage way, this utilizes plate recognition software and has 2 cameras mounts together both with infra red so that they can work both night and day. They’re set up periodically along the stretch of road and your vehicle is timed as to just how long it takes to go between the established points, creating basically a speed controlled section.
Peek Speed camera
Not very popular compared to its very similarcompetitorcompetitor the Gatso uses either radar or underground speed loops to gauge The speed of passing vehicles. Like the Gatso it works through a flash picture taken as the car is departing from the camera.
Hand held Speeding Camera
There are 3 popular speeding cameras used presently. Them being teletraffic, mini Gatso and the TSS system. The teletraffic is the traditional laser pointer, often pointed at the license plate of the car as the coating on it’s a good reflective surface. The beam is bounced back to the camera giving a speed reading. The mini Gatso is pretty much what it says on the tin, a smaller version of the Gatso (see above) and the TSS is a fixed road side sensor device in which a police unit can plug in to as and when they desire and take recordings of offenders.
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Ben Walsh Has 1st hand experience in the benefits of using legal methods to stop 6 points being added to his license. See Speeding Fines UKand visit our info centre with ideas on tactics and loopholes for fixed penalty speeding fines, and instances where court may be involved.