2007-09-10 03:38:14 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
Apparently both ways, I recently got caught by one. When I queried it and asked to see the evidence (via a court case) the matter was quietly dropped.
2007-09-10 03:44:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They can work either way (ie reading the front numberplate coming towards the camera or the back plate as the car drives away from the camera), depending what sort of camera is being used in the van - just like the different types of camera you see by the roadside. They won't do both at the same time.
The give away is that the van will be parked on the side of the road that's being monitored, or if parked on a bridge, above the lane being monitored. This is because the radar that monitors your speed works most accurately with a vehicle travelling directly towards, or away from the camera. The ideal of vehicles travelling directly towards the camera is rarely if ever achieved, but if the van was monitoring traffic on the "other side" of the road, it would not be working with the best conditions achievable - so they don't do it.
2007-09-10 06:17:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
As I know to my cost, a camera van on the side of the road gets vehicles going in both directions...
2007-09-10 06:42:10 · answer #3 · answered by Nightworks 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋