Developments in Gatso
LiveLink
Digital Gatso Cameras with ISDN links are soon to be flooding the roads in a new push
to stop speeding.
Known as Livelink the main difference is that they will not run out of film - because
it won't have any...... A quote from a London Policeman "One of
our busiest cameras regularly records 400 offences in less than
six hours." Then we have to reload and that may not be the same
day, so we miss offenders.
Images of speeding bikers and drivers are sent down
the phone line to a central police computer and the NIP can be
sent out straight away. So there are no costs for film, or developing
it. You don't need to employ anyone to load or unload the films.
The Highway Agency, which is responsible for the
UK motorways and trunk road network, is firmly in favour of cameras.
The Agency's own figures reveal that cameras in London cut fatal
accidents by 70 percent and saved £20 million a year in accident
costs after their introduction in 1992.
It is also possible that these systems will not
have either the Radar or the Flash fitted, but will employ the
use of inductive loops in the road and a Digital Camera capable
of working in low light. This would render Radar detectors useless,
and given the fact it is no longer an offence to own and use a
Radar Detector the authorities may go this way as a matter of
spite.
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