Anyone ever got caught speeding by Gatso , in a car and got away with it. I was towing a box trailer with my car and got flashed, didnt know there was a 50 mph limit for cars on a single carriageway when towing a trailer. 
Not all Gatsoās are active, theyāll flash but theres no guts inside of them.
What cheesed me of , is the weather was utter kack and with strong winds i couldnt even get to 50 mph , but the one time i reached 56mph i got blitzed 
OTS:
Anyone ever got caught speeding by Gatso , in a car and got away with it. I was towing a box trailer with my car and got flashed, didnt know there was a 50 mph limit for cars on a single carriageway when towing a trailer.
A15 by any chance?
thelorryist:
OTS:
Anyone ever got caught speeding by Gatso , in a car and got away with it. I was towing a box trailer with my car and got flashed, didnt know there was a 50 mph limit for cars on a single carriageway when towing a trailer.A15 by any chance?
or the A1 near south charlton ,that thing flashes more than a dirty old man
Just North of Berwick , after the dual cabbageway ends Theres one on the right facing oncoming traffic and the one the left jus ta bit further up
you can tell if a gatso camera is an active one.
when you are coming up to the camera you can see 2 small round holes,if these are open and you can see key holes then the camera is active,if the holes are covered the camera is non active but will still flash.
The camera was forward facing so couldnt see the camera wholes
How does the camera know youāve a trailer on?
Bernard
albion1938:
How does the camera know youāve a trailer on?
Bernard
I wondered that
Forget it dude. None of them cameras on that stretch are capable of calculating the speed of an oncoming vehicle. They WILL flash if you approach them too fast (I used to have hours of fun on my R1 doing that) but youāll hear nothing more.
The ones with the purple lenses that can get you coming head on donāt flash when they photograph you.
the maoster:
The ones with the purple lenses that can get you coming head on donāt flash when they photograph you.
Oh, yes they do! The āpurple lensā (actually a magenta filter) cuts out most of the visible light (magenta is obtained by mixing blue and red - which are found at either end of the visible spectrum) so all you see is a dull purplish flash. It is not distracting like a bright white flash and most people only see it if they are looking straight at the light when it flashes, due to the way the human eye works.
Some front-facing cameras - those without the magenta filters - use infrared flashes (and infrared film) which produce no visible flash at all. The same IR technology (but with digital cameras rather than film) is used in the SPECS āaverage speedā cameras, to enable them to work in the dark.
albion1938:
How does the camera know youāve a trailer on?
Bernard
Induction loops in the road surface detect a ālargeā vehicle, which allows the camera to be triggered at a lower speed. Typically this will result in all ālargeā vehicles being photographed at anything above 45mph (on a single carriageway National Speed Limit road). Manual processing of the photograph then allows the appropriate speed limit to be applied for trucks, buses, cars with trailers etc (with the DVLA database being used to differentiate between e.g. 7.5T and heavier vehicles).
Roymondo:
albion1938:
How does the camera know youāve a trailer on?
BernardInduction loops in the road surface detect a ālargeā vehicle, which allows the camera to be triggered at a lower speed. Typically this will result in all ālargeā vehicles being photographed at anything above 45mph (on a single carriageway National Speed Limit road). Manual processing of the photograph then allows the appropriate speed limit to be applied for trucks, buses, cars with trailers etc (with the DVLA database being used to differentiate between e.g. 7.5T and heavier vehicles).
So two cars with the numpty behind being 3 feet from the one in front will make the camera think its a large vehicle?
If yes, then when the photo is reviewed will the one behind get a NIP for unsafe driving?
ROG:
So two cars with the numpty behind being 3 feet from the one in front will make the camera think its a large vehicle?If yes, then when the photo is reviewed will the one behind get a NIP for unsafe driving?
Itās a possibility, I suppose. But unlikely as the camera systems are only certified for speeding offences. And the following vehicle would have to be really close to fool the system to āseeā a single large vehicle.
The only 3 points Iāve ever had were from a GATSO with height sensor just north of Berwick back in 2007. That was on the Tuesday, ticket was on bosses desk waiting for me when I got back Friday!
Well the whole car and trailer didnt way more than 2.5t so may have been a height sensor, but it flashed me and i looked straight away at my speed 56 mph bang on, i thought the weight sensors or loops was for anything over 7.5t .
TTX boy:
you can tell if a gatso camera is an active one.when you are coming up to the camera you can see 2 small round holes,if these are open and you can see key holes then the camera is active,if the holes are covered the camera is non active but will still flash.
Oldest myth in the book.
stagedriver:
TTX boy:
you can tell if a gatso camera is an active one.when you are coming up to the camera you can see 2 small round holes,if these are open and you can see key holes then the camera is active,if the holes are covered the camera is non active but will still flash.
Oldest myth in the book.
+1
OTS:
Well the whole car and trailer didnt way more than 2.5t so may have been a height sensor, but it flashed me and i looked straight away at my speed 56 mph bang on, i thought the weight sensors or loops was for anything over 7.5t .
It uses inductive loops to detect a ālargeā vehicle. It doesnāt weigh the vehicle.