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A traffic enforcement camera (also a red light camera, speed camera, road safety camera, bus lane camera, depending on use) is a camera which may be mounted beside or over a road or installed in an enforcement vehicle to detect motoring offenses, including speeding, vehicles going through a red traffic light, vehicles going through a toll booth ...
Gatso speed camera. Speed limits are enforced on most public roadways by authorities, with the purpose to improve driver compliance with speed limits.Methods used include roadside speed traps set up and operated by the police and automated roadside 'speed camera' systems, which may incorporate the use of an automatic number plate recognition system. [1]
ISA was born in France when Saad and Malaterre (1982) carried out their study of driver behaviour with an in-car speed limiter. Actually, they did not really test Intelligent Speed Adaptation, because the system did not automatically set the correct speed limit; instead drivers had to set the limiter themselves, and, rather like a cruise control, they could set it as they chose.
A mobile speed camera is speed limit enforcement device used in Australia, France, India, Ireland, and the United Kingdom [1] to refer to a road vehicle fitted with speed camera equipment which can park at the side of the road, or on overbridges to monitor the speed of passing traffic. Mobile speed cameras come in many shapes, sizes and colour ...
Intelligent speed adaptation or intelligent speed advice (ISA) assists drivers with compliance to the speed limit. They take in information of the vehicle's position and notify the driver when they are not enforcing the speed limit. [22] Some ISA systems allow the vehicle to adjust its speed to adhere to the relative speed limit. [22]
SPECS cameras over motorway. SPECS is an average speed measuring speed camera system introduced in 1999. [1] [2] It is one of the systems used for speed limit enforcement in the United Kingdom. SPECS was originally manufactured by Speed Check Services Limited, from which it takes its name.
"Studies show that fixed camera sites can reduce injury by up to 25% and fatalities by up to 32%. People aware of where speed cameras are also less likely to drive recklessly.
Traffic-sign recognition first appeared, in the form of speed limit sign recognition, in 2008 for the 2009 Vauxhall Insignia. [1] Later in 2009 they appeared on the new BMW 7 Series, and the following year on the Mercedes-Benz S-Class. At that time, these systems only detected the round speed limit signs found all across Europe (e.g. [2]).