Average Speed Cameras

[subaqua]

Lots of people have been caught and fined as a result of the ASCs on the M6 roadworks. The local rags used to be full of whinging letters from speeding drivers. The same with the ASCs on the A14 near Kettering and to the north of Cambridge.

I like average speed cameras - like any speed camera they're a form of idiot tax. I wish all major road were covered with them.

Its what cruise control could have been designed for . stick the right number in and boosh , job done. adaptive is even better as it slows me down when you get plums at a much lower speed trying desperately to get an average down.

best bit about ASC is they increase the average speed to just below the limit , rather than having the red wave effect .

Barking area used to be terrible in the evening as the red wave from the first numpty past a normal camera backed up to almost canning town. the average speed ones went in , the limit was dropped to 50 and 40 in danger zones and average speeds increased and journey times decreased .

traffic also didn't back up and was moving in a fluid mass

 

[subaqua]

Except the SPECS single lane type wasn't used on multiple lane roads. The Daily Heil did it's usual thing of conflating lots of issues and printing bollocks. Probably advised by the late Paul Smith...

really ? I wonder what I spent 3 months installing then.

looks like it was a SPECS one on a multilane road and not set up for it .

makes me wonder if the manufacturer tech guy who commissioned it was talking bollix. wouldn't surprise me if he was and that the system was never used to issue fines

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

There's some on the Stocksbridge bypass near Sheffield. It used to be a real loony magnet with 100mph+ drivers.
Cameras have slowed it down, but you still get a few going up at 90 and the ones that slam on the brakes.
I did have a TNT truck with second trailer pass me going about 80 a few months back too.

The problem with road laws is we don't see the results.
Perhaps there could be an LED sign placed at the end of the road that lists registration plates, speeds and the fine amounts.

 

[Pale Rider]

The Daily Wail printing bollocks?!?! Who'da thunk it, eh?

The Mail article quotes numerous sources, including the Home Office who conceded the cameras were type approved for only one lane.

The article was entirely accurate and balanced - when it was published in 2006.

Clearly, the technology has since moved on.

 

[Freds Dad]

There is a short section, less than a mile of ASC on the M60 near Stockport as there is quite a bad bend in the road. I know of a couple of folk who they have caught and it seems celebs are also caught there.

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co...rew-flintoff-speeding-fine-lancashire-7237202

 

[spen666]

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what makes it more ironic is they were caught in the roadworks that were being carried out by the company we work for and they were ON THAT PROJECT.

..... !

Top effort in the stupidity stakes

 

[Over The Hill]

I cannot see it as being long before the whole motorway network is on average speed checks. Really is quite simple to pop a row of cameras on a bridge at every junction and as long as the speed limit is the same over the section you can just print out the tickets.

 

[subaqua]

I cannot see it as being long before the whole motorway network is on average speed checks. Really is quite simple to pop a row of cameras on a bridge at every junction and as long as the speed limit is the same over the section you can just print out the tickets.

not hard to not exceed the limit. and no reason to , it doesn't get you there quicker as you need to brake earlier to slow down negating the effects

I went diving at Stoney cove in Leicester on Sunday. I drove up on cruise without exceeding the speed limit , and drove back in the afternoon again not exceeding the speed limit. was a rather enjoyable journey and didn't use the brakes much at all, relied on the cruise control speed reducer button and good long observations like wot I wos taught to when I learned to drive.
I did notice that lane discipline is utter gash with people sitting in the overtaking lanes at approx. 50mph without overtaking effectively blocking 2 or more lanes .

predominantly around Luton for some weird reason

Automatic fines for driving poorly/ situations like that would be of benefit .

 

[mr_cellophane]

No such thing as an "overtaking lane". There is a left hand lane for diving in and two or three lanes to the right of that for passing vehicles in the outside line.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

My brother rather likes them because most of them now use forward facing cameras for the registration plate detection. He is a motorcyclist.

 

[Drago]

70-100 an hour are caught on the M1 in the current 16-17 roadworks by Specs.

The technical quirk that made lane swapping a viable tactic was erased with the 2004 update.

 

[Hacienda71]

The average speed cameras on the Cat and Fiddle didn't work initially as the council forgot there is a cut through. They had to reposition at great expense. Pmsl

 

[spen666]

The average speed cameras on the Cat and Fiddle didn't work initially as the council forgot there is a cut through. They had to reposition at great expense. Pmsl

I'm not sure why you are "PMSL"is it that a safety feature was not working or perhaps iyou are PMSL at the waste of taxpayers money.

I'm not sure either are things most sensible people would be "PMSL" at.

 

[Levo-Lon]

I think ASC 's work best , standard fixed traffic cams are a bit pointles after a while and people just slow down for 50yds..

mobile cams get the most hits id think as they're're usually very sneaky..

as @User says its a tax on idiots.. ie the halfords mechanic doing 57 in a 30 testing a cstomers car!!

 

[Drago]

Hide speed cameras in the cats eyes, make sign post recognition speed limiters compulsory in new cars, and restrict all new cars to 70mph max. Motoring law breakers are treated far too leniently.