East bound on 16th Avenue @ 10th Street NW, I stopped for a yellow/red light. No sooner had the car come to a full stop, than the red light camera flashed 2 or 3 times. I swear by all that is holy - ALL traffic stopped for that light. Nobody ran it in either direction.
Can't help but wonder what happens now. Do I get three $287 tickets for a light I didn't run?
Gotta say I've never seen a flash when no one was in the intersection. In fact, I've only ever seen a flash once. I was with my daughter and hit the intersection and we see this flash. She tells me I'll be getting a ticket in the mail. I never did. It must have the truck that was behind me. He ran the light. I think I was in the intersection before it turned red, but if not maybe the truck obscured my licence plate.
They have to have 2 clear photos of your car, one of you entering the intersection when the light is red (not yellow, red) and then another of you exiting the intersection with the light still red.
The photo also records your exact speed and the length of time the light was red before entering the intersection.
I read somewhere that only 30%-60% of those photographed actually get a ticket.
What do these green light cameras look like? Do they look just like the red light cameras (on a pedestal on the sidewalk) or are they a whole new system?
Also, will there be new signs put up to identify them like the existing red light camera ones?
Question: Is there any kind of electronic jamming equipment you can get to counter act these photo radar cameras? Like maybe something that can be bought online from the US? Not that I'd do anything like that of course. Just wondering.
Question: Is there any kind of electronic jamming equipment you can get to counter act these photo radar cameras? Like maybe something that can be bought online from the US? Not that I'd do anything like that of course. Just wondering.
Having a car covered in radar absorbing stealth material (perhaps), or, according to the mythbusters, driving past the camera at around 250MPH.
Question: Is there any kind of electronic jamming equipment you can get to counter act these photo radar cameras? Like maybe something that can be bought online from the US? Not that I'd do anything like that of course. Just wondering.
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Question: Is there any kind of electronic jamming equipment you can get to counter act these photo radar cameras? Like maybe something that can be bought online from the US? Not that I'd do anything like that of course. Just wondering.
Question: Is there any kind of electronic jamming equipment you can get to counter act these photo radar cameras? Like maybe something that can be bought online from the US? Not that I'd do anything like that of course. Just wondering.
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I wonder if they use a sensor mounted in the road as well? I swear the camera on Macleod North and 12th Avenue SE goes off whenever someone pulls up a little too far at the intersection. But only one camera flash goes off, the second never comes since the car is stopped at the intersection.
I wonder if they use a sensor mounted in the road as well? I swear the camera on Macleod North and 12th Avenue SE goes off whenever someone pulls up a little too far at the intersection. But only one camera flash goes off, the second never comes since the car is stopped at the intersection.
I think that's how they determine the whole running a red light thing. Pads under the road, triggered when a car drives over it (in this case rolls), while the light is red. It then sends a signal to camera to take a picture.
At least that's what CSI told me.
I am sure you can find the real solution somewhere on the interweb.
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I think that's how they determine the whole running a red light thing. Pads under the road, triggered when a car drives over it (in this case rolls), while the light is red. It then sends a signal to camera to take a picture.
At least that's what CSI told me.
I am sure you can find the real solution somewhere on the interweb.
That makes sense, since whenever I have seen it the case is a car rolling closer to the crosswalk, past the marked stop line at that intersection.
So in Mck Towne on 130th there is what looks like a little camera mounted on top of the actual street light. What is that? It also looks like it is looking back towards the oncoming traffic.
So in Mck Towne on 130th there is what looks like a little camera mounted on top of the actual street light. What is that? It also looks like it is looking back towards the oncoming traffic.
If I recall correctly, those detect strobe lights like police/ambulance/fire trucks. When they detect a strobe light they switch the traffic light for that vehicle.
If I recall correctly, those detect strobe lights like police/ambulance/fire trucks. When they detect a strobe light they switch the traffic light for that vehicle.
Interesting. I always assumed they were just cameras to monitor traffic volumes from a central traffic control room type thing run by the city.
red light/green light cameras
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