Anyone know if the Halec cameras will be used to identify speeding whilst towing a caravan? It always concerns me when I'm overtaken by other caravan towers when I am doing a steady 60mph.
Your speedo is set to read over slightly to start with, unless you've had it calibrated and have the sticker / documents to prove it...
And, if it's one camera watching over several lanes, there's wires buried in each lane just before the camera (and for other reasons*), so the camera picture will then state which vehicle it's gone after...
*The wires are also there to detect what type of vehicle it is, car / van / HGV. So it can tell what speed each vehicle *cough* - should be doing....
Didn't say I was worried about cameras - I said interested. Drivers towing caravans downhill overtaking me when I'm driving at 60 does concern me, it doesn't worry me.
I’m sure that’s what’s being installed on the m60 around Manchester, I don’t think these cameras will detect a caravan and if they did so what your not breaking the law, just the idiot that flys past
its just a digital camera that will be set to the variable speed limit. I dont think they differentiate by vehicle type.
but then again, i guess it depends if the way in which the NIP is sent out.
If its automated then it wont know that someone is towing.
If someone is actually looking at the pictures, (which i think they do) then it would be down the operator noticing that the vehicle was exceeding the limit for their vehicle
So in theory they could still be exceeding the limit as they are towing, but be within the camera limit, in whcih case, it wont get triggered, thus wont get looked at. So i would say that it will only get picked up if they are doing over 70
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Topic: Halec speed cameras
