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Get this for a speed trap ...

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  • 28-05-2005 12:24am
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    peasant
    Registered Users Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭


    Was on a business trip the other month in Germany. The guy driving me along a particular stretch of motorway near Frankfurt made it his point to stick strictly to the limit. (was a section with overhaed displays ....variable limit according to traffic). When I asked him why, he told me that he had gotten points in this very spot before.
    Bot not from a hairdryer / laser / gatso / van etc , no, no ...wait until you hear this ....

    This particular stretch of motorway is a long downhill section where a lot of accidents happen, so they installed this variable speed limit system ...fair enough so far. But to control it, they've really gone over the top: On the other side of that downhill section, about 3 - 5 km away (depending on where on the section you are) there is another hill with a town on top. On the top of one of the high rise buildings there, they have installed the speed camera. IT IS A MODIFIED LEOPARD II (German tank) GUNSIGHT !!! Fully computerised and linked to the speed limit control computer.

    Apparently it cost about 4 - 5 Million to install and has paid for itself within 3 years picking off speeding cars by the thousands from 3 - 5 kilometers away ....

    Unreal, isn't it? They really got you in their sights there ...

    (This is no fib ...guy showed me the picture and printouts)


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    Curran
    Registered Users Posts: 4,377 ✭✭✭Curran


    HOLY SH!T

    Sounds excellent..........thank god i will never see it in Ireland in my time ;)

    We just dont have the money for that sort of thing......and if we did....sure it would never pay it's self back cos it would never catch anyone

    1 Because we have no high rise buildings

    2 Always too cloudy......LOL......camera wouldnt be able to see me


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    CJhaughey
    Registered Users Posts: 14,907 ✭✭✭✭CJhaughey


    Is it like the system they use in the UK where there are two cams set at a fixed distance apart and the speed is averaged through the SPECS system?Or is it just a long range Gatso?


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    peasant
    Registered Users Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    As I understand it it's a military spec target scanner. Anything inside the target area exceeding the momentary speed limit gets "shot" ...by camera :D


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