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30 October 2003, 04:20 PM
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Apologies if this has been posted already- I had a quick look over last few days.
The new electronic signs on the M4 were switched on by the Transport Minister today.
CAUTION - They are rigged with the latest SPECS speed cameras. SPECS is a camera based system. As you go past a camera, software detects and reads your number plate. When you go past the next camera, it detects and reads your number plate again.
Knowing how far apart the cameras are it can work out your average speed between the two cameras. The system is fully automatic and will automatically issue a ticket without any form of human intervention. It does this for every single vehicle that passes a camera. You will not know you've been nicked as the cameras don't flash. There's no film in them either, they're digital, using images of you in your car, noting together the date and time etc.
It works 24/7, 365 days a year, and theoretically, there's absolutely no limit on the number of tickets that it can issue. The whole section of the M4 between Theale (J12) and Membury
Services (between 14 and 15) is wired, both ways. It is believed that the system is set to trigger a ticket at 78mph.
Radar detectors won't work. SPECS is entirely passive, there's no radar or laser beam to pick up
The new electronic signs on the M4 were switched on by the Transport Minister today.
CAUTION - They are rigged with the latest SPECS speed cameras. SPECS is a camera based system. As you go past a camera, software detects and reads your number plate. When you go past the next camera, it detects and reads your number plate again.
Knowing how far apart the cameras are it can work out your average speed between the two cameras. The system is fully automatic and will automatically issue a ticket without any form of human intervention. It does this for every single vehicle that passes a camera. You will not know you've been nicked as the cameras don't flash. There's no film in them either, they're digital, using images of you in your car, noting together the date and time etc.
It works 24/7, 365 days a year, and theoretically, there's absolutely no limit on the number of tickets that it can issue. The whole section of the M4 between Theale (J12) and Membury
Services (between 14 and 15) is wired, both ways. It is believed that the system is set to trigger a ticket at 78mph.
Radar detectors won't work. SPECS is entirely passive, there's no radar or laser beam to pick up
this is a hoax!
button didn't exist. 
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31 October 2003, 11:05 AM
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ooops - was in a bit of a rush and fell for it!
apologies
(and yes I do know where the search button is thanks)
will double check in future to avoid further slagging
apologies
(and yes I do know where the search button is thanks)
will double check in future to avoid further slagging
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