Speed Camera Photo Display
Mother of all speed cameras -
Anyone who thought that the Dutch were a liberal race might think again if they come up against the IDEE machine. Standing for Innovative Digital Enforcement Environment, this 13-feet-high speed camera has just about everything it needs to resist an attack from an angry motorist.
The IDEE, which costs anything between $60,000 and $100,000, incorporates just about every single anti-vandal measurement known to delinquent man in its design. The camera's enclosed electronics are insulated against extreme heat, and the main pillar can resist just about any fire.
A thick steel base prevents the camera from being removed forcibly from the ground, and protects the device from being rammed by a pissed commuter. Impact-resistant polycarbonate glass protects the camera and flash. If the tower is attacked, then an alert goes to the local cop shop. All the data already recorded is sent to be downloaded at a traffic control base. Anti-vandal features aside, let's have a closer look at the IDEE's detection ability. it can operate using both radar technology and induction loops in the road, and its four separate hi-res digital cameras use infra-red technology.
There are four separate high-resolution digital cameras, which use infra-red technology to flash twice so rapidly that even in very busy traffic noincidents should be missed. Four lanes of traffic can be monitored at the same time. Currently in use in Holland, the IDEE's manufacturer has plans to flog their creation all over Europe. Lucky Europeans.
You get what you pay for with speed cameras - Dumb box on a stick!
Reckless: Mayes takes his hands off the wheel at 73mph as he passes a speed camera Read the Full Story...
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Churchill's "V for Vitory" Sign? - UK
A rider photographed doing 105mph banned from driving for a year, fined £900 with £600 costs. (Only three such bikes in his home county of Bedfordshire and only one with modified lights. Quick database check and "How did you find me?" Yes Really!
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 This is not the first time cameras have been defaced; across the country there have been incidents varying from the covering of lenses to the entire camera being chopped down (for want of high explosives!). |
Wondering why you don't have any lose change?
An as-yet unknown perpetrator (good humoured hero) has defaced the speed cameras in the Andover Road overnight.
Speed Cameras are deeply unpopular with motorists, most who feel that they are in place simply for revenue generation (No you recon?) rather than for road safety as the government would suggest.
The message "Piggy Bank" has been professionally daubed onto the yellow backs of the cameras. Clearly this was a well planned operation.
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But did you get the film out of the camera?
The driver of this vehicle lost control in the rain and hit the curb did a 180 degree turn and hit the camera pole going backwards.
The pole was torn from its mounting and came to rest with the car 5 metres further down the road with the car lying on it's right hand side.
Both occupants escaped with minor injuries. These pictures are from Johannesburg, South Africa in October 2002
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Speed Cameras - "The Funny Side??"
And you thought speed cameras were a tool for road safety. Ouch!
This guy nearly had a heart attack....squeeeeel. Whats that funky smell? It ain't rubber!
You can't tell me the average police officer likes these cameras either!
"Giving the Speed Cameras - THE BIRD"
"Giving the Speed Cameras - THE BOOT"
So who pays the ticket - I know, the Governement :-)
Speed Cameras - "The Not So Funny Side"
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Below: Lets use the Primary School and microwave pedestrians - Good idea?
Left - "If only I could get the camera in the bin" - bad luck no lid!" |
This police office must have had a hell of a hangover or a mean sense of humour!
"Make your licence plate invisible to photo speed cameras."
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