Garda cars parked on motorway

xabi

Anyone know what type of speed detection the Garda cars use that park on those special Garda only raised thingys on the motorways? Passed a few today slightly over the limit, didn't see any cameras, is it just radar guns they use?

Terrontress

It's not those raised areas where they do the speed checks. They can see you too easily there. What they do is sit toward the top of the onramp and check your speed as you travel away from you. That way you can't see them until it is too late.

xabi

What do they use the raised areas for? Saw 3 being used today on M7 and M1.

bazz26

Alot of the Garda Traffic Corp cars are now fitted with Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras. These can be positioned either at the front or rear of the car.

More information here:
http://www.garda.ie/Controller.aspx?Page=106

They could have been checking for vehicles with no motor tax and insurance.

Terrontress

xabi wrote: »

What do they use the raised areas for? Saw 3 being used today on M7 and M1.

they can just observe traffic. If you're driving at 120 km/h you'll see the same 10 cars doing a similar speed. Sit static and you can observe thousands of cars.

Hooch

Terrontress wrote: »

they can just observe traffic. If you're driving at 120 km/h you'll see the same 10 cars doing a similar speed. Sit static and you can observe thousands of cars.

We do both static observation and speed detection. One type of our speed detection gun is 1,000meters so depending on where the raised ramp is (some are terrible locations) we can intact see you wayyyyyy before you see us.

pudzey101

bazz26 wrote: »

Alot of the Garda Traffic Corp cars are now fitted with Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras. These can be positioned either at the front or rear of the car.

More information here:
http://www.garda.ie/Controller.aspx?Page=106

They could have been checking for vehicles with no motor tax and insurance.

Quote : The technology can read number plates at a rate of six per second on vehicles travelling up to 180km/h.

So if im doing 190km/h ill be fine

robbie_998

pudzey101 wrote: »

Quote : The technology can read number plates at a rate of six per second on vehicles travelling up to 180km/h.

So if im doing 190km/h ill be fine

nope.... you cant afford petrol for that anymore !

dev100

Hooch wrote: »

We do both static observation and speed detection. One type of our speed detection gun is 1,000meters so depending on where the raised ramp is (some are terrible locations) we can intact see you wayyyyyy before you see us.

Ha try the n11 m11 week days ye are well spotted before you see us . Every twat slams on the brakes and traffic crawls by you causing rubber necking

Great form of speed prevention

Cork24

What signal are they using on their guns now a days I remember getting a speed radar dec off the net before never got to try it out with the cop guns it had dector on it as well it would tell u if the cops had a device to pick up them up

Hooch

Cork24 wrote: »

What signal are they using on their guns now a days I remember getting a speed radar dec off the net before never got to try it out with the cop guns it had dector on it as well it would tell u if the cops had a device to pick up them up

All speed detection guns now show if a radar jammer is being used.....and there are high penalties for them

staker

Hooch wrote: »

We do both static observation and speed detection. One type of our speed detection gun is 1,000meters so depending on where the raised ramp is (some are terrible locations) we can intact see you wayyyyyy before you see us.

Shooting fish in a barrel springs to mind.
What exactly are terrible locations in regards to sitting at the side of the motorway in the front seat of a car pointing a gun?
This we/ye concept breeds nothing but contempt.

scholar007

Hooch wrote: »

We do both static observation and speed detection. One type of our speed detection gun is 1,000meters so depending on where the raised ramp is (some are terrible locations) we can intact see you wayyyyyy before you see us.

So what really sexy cars do ye have these days? The unmarked ones for speed detection? I saw a Scorpio years ago (on blues) when I was coming out of Dublin, it was better spec'd than some Mercs.

Cork24

Hooch wrote: »

Cork24 wrote: »

What signal are they using on their guns now a days I remember getting a speed radar dec off the net before never got to try it out with the cop guns it had dector on it as well it would tell u if the cops had a device to pick up them up

All speed detection guns now show if a radar jammer is being used.....and there are high penalties for them

It's not a speed jammer but a it will pick up a speed cam and will let u know theirs one their

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Reading this thread has reminded me to ring the bank on monday and ask them what's the best time to rob them.:P