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Tripping Speed Cameras

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  • March 27, 2009 at 9:08 am #11639
    VecchioJo

    Anyone ever managed to do this?

    There’s a speed camera halfway down a hill into town, if you start a determined sprint at the top and you’ve got a bit of a following wind you can easily hit 40mph as you pass the 30mph speed-limit sign and the rapidly following sneaky camera. I’ve clocked well over the speed limit countless times but never got the camera to flash, I think I might have succeeded once but the car that I was undertaking at the time (hey, I was on the cycle-lane at the time so all legal and above board) may have triggered it.

    Is it possible for a cyclist to trip a speed-camera, or are we just too small to register and I should invest in a silver-foil skinsuit?

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  • March 27, 2009 at 9:16 am #627011
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    We have a few of those LED
    We have a few of those LED signs that flash up “Slow Down 30mph” (or whatever the speed limit is) if you are exceeding that speed, in our area that I have triggered a few times. So assuming they are using the same speed detection technology it should be possible to set a Gatso speed camera off.

    I think the main problem is that only a small proportion of the Gatso cameras are actually live at any one time, they move the camera apparatus that is contained within the box to other locations as and when they see fit.

    You may have been going fast enough to trigger it, but without the camera being live you would never know it.

    Aim for the speed warning signs, they are always active and much more of a guarantee of fun.

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