[Travel] Average Speed Cameras

[looney]

If you cant do the time dont do the crime.

 

[Winker]

I don't know how true this is and don't experiment on my behalf, but where you have average speed cameras covering two or more lanes, if you go through one camera in one lane and then move into the next lane, you will be lost from the first camera.
I believe each lane has its own set of cameras so they can't measure your speed if you move from lane to lane. As I say, don't try this out on my say so!

 

[studio150]

I've started wondering, what will happen to the current motorists that must speed everywhere when fully automated vehicles are the norm and they must sit in their vehicle going along at a regulated speed all the time.

 

[tigertim68]

Whilst driving down the M23 through the road works, I was surprised at the number of cars shooting along but then braking at the camera. I'm used to average speed cameras on the M6 but wondered if those who rarely us the M23 know how they work?

At the moment the cameras on the M23 are not in operation

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

I don't know how true this is and don't experiment on my behalf, but where you have average speed cameras covering two or more lanes, if you go through one camera in one lane and then move into the next lane, you will be lost from the first camera.
I believe each lane has its own set of cameras so they can't measure your speed if you move from lane to lane. As I say, don't try this out on my say so!

Fairly sure that all of the cameras will be linked to the same computers that works out if you have been speeding or not.

 

[Weststander]

I don't know how true this is and don't experiment on my behalf, but where you have average speed cameras covering two or more lanes, if you go through one camera in one lane and then move into the next lane, you will be lost from the first camera.
I believe each lane has its own set of cameras so they can't measure your speed if you move from lane to lane. As I say, don't try this out on my say so!

I thought all lanes had cameras in a line.

 

[drew]

I don't know how true this is and don't experiment on my behalf, but where you have average speed cameras covering two or more lanes, if you go through one camera in one lane and then move into the next lane, you will be lost from the first camera.
I believe each lane has its own set of cameras so they can't measure your speed if you move from lane to lane. As I say, don't try this out on my say so!

Complete urban myth, that or clutching at straws!

 

[dazzer6666]

I don't know how true this is and don't experiment on my behalf, but where you have average speed cameras covering two or more lanes, if you go through one camera in one lane and then move into the next lane, you will be lost from the first camera.
I believe each lane has its own set of cameras so they can't measure your speed if you move from lane to lane. As I say, don't try this out on my say so!

Nope, that’s bollocks I believe

https://inews.co.uk/essentials/life...s/average-speed-cameras-fine-smart-motorways/

 

[Dirty Dave]

Whilst on the subject, what about Variable speed cameras? Has anyone been caught by one of those?

Was travelling on M25 laat week when the overhead sign changed from 50 to 40 just as I passed underneath and I could've easily missed it. Just got me thinking, do the cameras automatically change the speed they snap at, as soon as the sign changes?

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[Dave the OAP]

Dropping off the neighbours at Gatwick this morning at 4:30 am, I couldn't believe the amount of cars, mostly big mercs hammering through the 50 mph section.

Btw. Gatwick was absolutely manic that time in the morning. Looks like as soon as the exams finish, everyone heads to the airport.

 

[jonnyrovers]

The ones on the A24 have made a difference and I say that despite having been caught by them myself. The junction at Dial Post used to have lots of accidents with people pulling out of the garden centre into very fast traffic. Since they have been in I can't remember too many accidents there if any. Same with the ones further North by the Partridge Green turn off.

Where they are used to reduce accidents like those above is fine. They are only supposed to be used for safety which is why the local ones are run by the Sussex Safety Partnership.

The mobile one that annoys me is on the A27 Westbound at Holmbush. Can't recall any accidents there over the years and yet they have the mobile camera hidden away just after the bridge as you come downhill from the tunnel. I can't see any justification for that one apart from income generation rather than safety.

https://www.shorehamherald.co.uk/news/video-lorry-crash-by-southwick-tunnel-1-5717831

This is an extreme example, but speeders fairly regularly lose their grip of things on that bend at the bottom of the hill.

 

[Creaky]

There are far more fatal and serious injury accidents where excess speed is a factor than those where drink, drugs or mobile phone usage are a factor - yet the former is still seen as socially acceptable. Strange.

 

[ALBION28]

Whilst on the subject, what about Variable speed cameras? Has anyone been caught by one of those?

Was travelling on M25 laat week when the overhead sign changed from 50 to 40 just as I passed underneath and I could've easily missed it. Just got me thinking, do the cameras automatically change the speed they snap at, as soon as the sign changes?

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II asked this question at one of those courses and was told 30 secs to one minute before the system adjusts to new setting.

 

[goldstone]

Drove through this section of the M23 on Friday for the first time since the lanes have been narrowed and the 50mph average speed limit introduced.

And guess what? No work of any kind going on. Nothing. Zilch. So we have all the inconvenience to put up with and not one single solitary workman with a shovel out there.

At least they could put some cut-out worker figures at odd points along the motorway so that grumpy buggers like me might at least be fooled into thinking that there was a purpose for the restrictions. As it is I've written to Highways England to suggest that now they've narrowed the lanes and restricted the speeds they might like to effing well get on with the project.

 

[Megazone]

There are far more fatal and serious injury accidents where excess speed is a factor than those where drink, drugs or mobile phone usage are a factor - yet the former is still seen as socially acceptable. Strange.

We have a 20mph speed limit within the city. I've caught Police cars a fair few time, without the sirens on, driving well above that limit when I'm speed checking them. Problem is, if you stop them, you'll get arrested for wasting their time.

Does anyone actually follow the 20mph rule?

 

[BensGrandad]

I read that they didnt have the resources or equipment to enforce such a low speed limit.

 

[studio150]

We have a 20mph speed limit within the city. I've caught Police cars a fair few time, without the sirens on, driving well above that limit when I'm speed checking them. Problem is, if you stop them, you'll get arrested for wasting their time.

Does anyone actually follow the 20mph rule?

Only those stuck in the many jams around the city

 

[TheJasperCo]

There are far more fatal and serious injury accidents where excess speed is a factor than those where drink, drugs or mobile phone usage are a factor - yet the former is still seen as socially acceptable. Strange.

Surely the consumption of drink, drugs or use of a phone can lead to a driver speeding?

 

[Superseagull]

Drove through this section of the M23 on Friday for the first time since the lanes have been narrowed and the 50mph average speed limit introduced.

And guess what? No work of any kind going on. Nothing. Zilch. So we have all the inconvenience to put up with and not one single solitary workman with a shovel out there.

At least they could put some cut-out worker figures at odd points along the motorway so that grumpy buggers like me might at least be fooled into thinking that there was a purpose for the restrictions. As it is I've written to Highways England to suggest that now they've narrowed the lanes and restricted the speeds they might like to effing well get on with the project.

The only thing I have noticed is one solitary small JCB on the northbound side that has not moved an inch in over 2 weeks.
It’s a bit of a joke to cause all the backlog at rush hour for basically no reason to date. Only another 24 months before they finish!

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

anyone planning on driving in France this summer be aware that all the national road speed limits changed on the 1st July

no longer 90kph but 80! and the flics are everywhere at the moment

your gps will probably still say 90 so be careful,even with alarms

the first couple of days were really strange

usually in a 90 everyone does 100,but at the moment everyone is adhering to the new limit of 80 knowing the flics are in every hedgerow

the change in speed is remarkable,at 80 it feels like your walking

but it does highlight the difference in speed and I'm sure fatalites will go down as a result,although it's extremely unpopular with the locals