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Old 21-04-2010, 01:34 PM
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I've just been sent a link to an article in the Telegraph yesterday about satellites being used for speed cameras???

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...rom-space.html

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Old 21-04-2010, 01:58 PM
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you can never be too carefull about speeding space shuttles..
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I thought this was new film or something............

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simple - take the plates off
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how are they going to watch every car on every road carnt see it myself
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You could used to slow down when you saw one, but its abit hard to avoid a camera in space
Old 21-04-2010, 03:09 PM
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On another note, did anyone see Eastenders were Pat said 'We need a speed camera on the sqaure'! I Lol'd hard at that. Who the fuck writes this shit?

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it's got nothing to do with a camera in space - the cameras are on the road to read the number plates and their position is known via gps so that they calculate average speed between 2 points. no different to the SPECS average speed cameras in roadworks now really, except that by using the gps data of every camera you can easily create a network.
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Originally Posted by foreigneRS
it's got nothing to do with a camera in space - the cameras are on the road to read the number plates and their position is known via gps so that they calculate average speed between 2 points. no different to the SPECS average speed cameras in roadworks now really, except that by using the gps data of every camera you can easily create a network.
I didnt actually think the actual camera itself was in space, i was just being sarcy for the record
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Originally Posted by Benni
On another note, did anyone see Eastenders were Pat said 'We need a speed camera on the sqaure'! I Lol'd hard at that. Who the fuck writes this shit?

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she was planning to put shite idea's across so that peggy would try to steal them for her election pledges
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Originally Posted by foreigneRS
it's got nothing to do with a camera in space - the cameras are on the road to read the number plates and their position is known via gps so that they calculate average speed between 2 points. no different to the SPECS average speed cameras in roadworks now really, except that by using the gps data of every camera you can easily create a network.
Thats how I understood it. So we all need to buy two matching cars insure both and have a gps based system that knows where all these cameras are then switches number plates every other camera. Then you could say, if you got done, that it was impossible to cover the distance in that time and that the system is shit.

"your honour it is impossible for me to have covered this distance in this time; the system is obviously shit"

It would be thrown out of court and all the world's wars would end and there would be no famine.....................
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