SPECS Average Speed Cameras

theloft · Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 12:12 pm Post subject: SPECS Average Speed Cameras

I apologise in advance if this question has already been asked but used the 'search' facility and could not find anything.
My query is this - during daylight the SPECS cameras on the M25 seem to have the desired effect and only the odd motorist seems to ignore the 50 mph limit. But at night, many more motorist seem to ignore them, is this because they do not work during darkness ? I have asked around and nobody seems to know the answer as of course these cameras do not flash.

MaFt · Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 1:17 pm Post subject:

most SPECS installations are installed alongside big infra-red lights too to help them pick up the cars in the dark.

personally i wouldn't want to risk it anyway. regardless of if they're working or not the speed limit still stands!

MaFt

theloft · Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 9:09 am Post subject:

Thanks, but I wasn't asking so that I could risk it ! I was in a car with my son and we were just discussing whether or not they worked at night. Does anyone know someone who has been caught on a SPECS camera at night ?

DennisN · Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 9:38 am Post subject:

Surely the infra red is to assist in bad light conditions - rain, fog, gloomy, and flashes every time irrespective of lighting state. I can think of no reason why Highways Agency/Speedcam Organisation would take the trouble to switch the Specs cameras off at night. Think about it - digital, so no film to replace, on/off switch somewhere, but presumably not on the lamppost they're sitting on, maybe some highly paid person sitting somewhere just waiting for night-time so he can switch them off, then back on again at crack of dawn next morning? It'd cost more for his wages than the electricity they'd save.

I don't know anybody who has been caught by any static camera, day or night, sorry. But I have seen Gatsos flashing at night. And somebody on here recently said he could see the infra-reds flashing when he looked through his camera (or did they change the channels on his built-in TV? Very Happy

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bmuskett · Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 10:34 am Post subject:

theloft · Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 11:17 am Post subject:

Thanks for all the replies, but bmuskett seems to have the definitive
one. Many thanks.

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