Subject: M4: new speed cameras alive and ticketing
31 October 2003, 05:51 PM
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For those of you who travel the M4:
New electronic signs on the M4 were switched on,on Tuesday 21 October. The bad news is that they are rigged with the SPECS speed cameras.
SPECS is a computer-camera based system. As you go past the sign a digital camera reads your number plate. When you go past the next sign your number plate is read again. The computer 'knows' how far apart the signs are so it can work out your average speed between the two, or three or four signs.
The system is fully automatic and will issue a ticket without any form of human intervention. It does this for every single vehicle that passes. You will not know you've been caught as the cameras don't flash.
They work 24/7, 365 days a year, and theoretically, there's absolutely no limit on the number of tickets that the system can issue.
The whole of the M4 section between Theale (J12) and Membury Services (between J14 and J15) is wired, both ways. The system is set to trigger a ticket at 78 mph. Radar detectors will be of no use as SPECS is entirely passive, there is no radar or laser beam to detect.
edited to say that obviously the detectors that work on a database will be updated to let you know where they are(if you have this!!)
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[Edited by bartmanuk - 10/31/2003 5:55:32 PM]
New electronic signs on the M4 were switched on,on Tuesday 21 October. The bad news is that they are rigged with the SPECS speed cameras.
SPECS is a computer-camera based system. As you go past the sign a digital camera reads your number plate. When you go past the next sign your number plate is read again. The computer 'knows' how far apart the signs are so it can work out your average speed between the two, or three or four signs.
The system is fully automatic and will issue a ticket without any form of human intervention. It does this for every single vehicle that passes. You will not know you've been caught as the cameras don't flash.
They work 24/7, 365 days a year, and theoretically, there's absolutely no limit on the number of tickets that the system can issue.
The whole of the M4 section between Theale (J12) and Membury Services (between J14 and J15) is wired, both ways. The system is set to trigger a ticket at 78 mph. Radar detectors will be of no use as SPECS is entirely passive, there is no radar or laser beam to detect.
edited to say that obviously the detectors that work on a database will be updated to let you know where they are(if you have this!!)
BM
[Edited by bartmanuk - 10/31/2003 5:55:32 PM]
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Now please read this
http://www.scoobynet.co.uk/bbs/threa...hreadid=265508
or this
http://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/
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bartmanuk: if you didn't pick up the message, it's not true. There are no SPECS cameras on that stretch of the M4. Thames Valley Police and the Highways Agency have confirmed it.
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