cats eye speed camera

It sounds like the speeder's nightmare. A speed camera accurate up to 150mph which can be concealed in a road stud as small as a cat's eye.




It's being trailed in Scotland

The camera is just 130mm in diameter, and can protrude from the surface by just 5mm; and it is linked to a computer that can read and decode number plates written in both italic and cursive scripts.

The idea is that you would use it in the approach to somewhere with a lower speed limit. The camera will look at each oncoming vehicle and measure its speed. Then you'll have illuminated road studs that will light up on the approach to a pedestrian crossing, say, and a sign that could light up with the number plate telling people to slow down.

The camera is a logical follow-on from Astucia's self-lighting road studs, now being trailed in Hampshire. These are intended to give motorists advance warning about traffic lights they might be unable to see due to fog or high-sided vehicles ahead. When the lights ahead were green, the studs would remain dark. But as the lights turned amber, so do the studs, flashing twice a second until the lights turn red. The studs marking the lanes would also flash.

Used in the US, the studs are claimed to have reduced accidents by 80 per cent. The tiny speed cameras would be the next step on the road to safety, and the Scottish Office is testing them in Motherwell

safety ey? lit road studs - great idea. Hidden cameras - hell no! :P at least with the fixed cameras they do slow people down, these ones just catch people. How about hidden cats eyes cameras for looking for uninsured cars? that way the stealth aspect is justified .

But they had to paint the old grey cameras in bright colours (everywhere?), so surely they would have to make you VERY aware of the camera in the floor (for it to fall into the "safety camera" category rather than "Cash collector" category), which sort of makes the tiny floor mounted camera pointless.

If it's true, they are even easier in reach so much so that I might even consider vandelising one myself if I got caught

130mm is about 5 inches isn't it? So surely they've tested to see if the bald-as-a-badgers-a***hole surface has the sufficient grip to avoid dismounting motorcyclists then yes? Cue yet another MCN petition.

[tigersaw]

Another use for a small piece of duct tape then.

angle ya no. plates so it can not see it?????

if ya no what i mean

u lay on the ground and c how meny no. plates u can c i see bike with plates i can jut about c when i on the bike??

jon

[Bluepete]

Pardon?

I'm sure this was a forward facing camera, 130mm with probably another 20mm of slippy casing/bonding tarmac... can't wait to hit one in the wet.