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13 January 2004, 03:19 PM
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Great!!!!
>
> The new electronic signs on the M6 were switched on this Tuesday.
> The bad news is that they are rigged with the SPECS speed cameras.
> This probably applies to all the new signs also being installed on the
M62,
> M60 and M56.
>
> 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.
>
> 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 have 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 section of the M6 between Knutsford and Preston is wired, both
> ways.
>
> The system is set to trigger a ticket at 78 MPH (Don't take this as a
> guarantee)
>
> Radar detectors will be of no use as SPECS is entirely passive; there is
no
> laser beam to detect.
>
> The new electronic signs on the M6 were switched on this Tuesday.
> The bad news is that they are rigged with the SPECS speed cameras.
> This probably applies to all the new signs also being installed on the
M62,
> M60 and M56.
>
> 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.
>
> 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 have 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 section of the M6 between Knutsford and Preston is wired, both
> ways.
>
> The system is set to trigger a ticket at 78 MPH (Don't take this as a
> guarantee)
>
> Radar detectors will be of no use as SPECS is entirely passive; there is
no
> laser beam to detect.
13 January 2004, 03:31 PM
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OH **** I BETTER NOT DRIVE ON THERE ANYMORE. Good job you told me i wouldn't have ever known! I drove some of it the other day and didnt see any. I must have been well busted. I must be off to commit suicide now. (Well after i've forwarded any bollox emails i have and posted them on forums where they've been posted 60000 times)
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13 January 2004, 11:17 PM
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