Gatso

Until now GPS speed camera locators only alerted drivers to fixed speed traps such as Gatso and Truvelo cameras.

WebWire | Recent Headlines 2009

The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) has approved a new generation of cameras that are linked wirelessly and operate in clusters, meaning that speeding drivers will be caught whichever route they take across a wide area … they read numberplates automatically and transmit data instantly to a penalty-processing centre … They are harder to vandalise than Gatso cameras because they are suspended from arms on six-metre poles.

Archive 2009-02-01 Dungeekin 2009

The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) has approved a new generation of cameras that are linked wirelessly and operate in clusters, meaning that speeding drivers will be caught whichever route they take across a wide area … they read numberplates automatically and transmit data instantly to a penalty-processing centre … They are harder to vandalise than Gatso cameras because they are suspended from arms on six-metre poles.

Blatancy Award Dungeekin 2009

In addition to regular CCTV, Gatso cameras pick up speeding, traffic light violations, inappropriate use of bus lanes and other driving misdemeanours while other cameras enforce congestion charge zones.

Watching the Vast Machine Sci-Fi Gene 2010

In addition to regular CCTV, Gatso cameras pick up speeding, traffic light violations, inappropriate use of bus lanes and other driving misdemeanours while other cameras enforce congestion charge zones.

Archive 2010-01-01 Sci-Fi Gene 2010

More Gatso, more ASBOs, more regulation gives the state more & more control over our individual lives.

If directors can go to prison for failure below why can't ministers? 2008

A physicist who tried to show a Gatso camera was inaccurate, to get his wife off a £60 speeding fine, must pay £15,000 in costs after being proved wrong.

Archive 2008-06-01 Bystander 2008

A physicist who tried to show a Gatso camera was inaccurate, to get his wife off a £60 speeding fine, must pay £15,000 in costs after being proved wrong.

Costly Challenge Bystander 2008

The Appellant in Person - how to convert a fine imposed by Magistrates of £60 plus £60 costs - all caused by that modern road side menace the Gatso cash collector - into an award of the same amout in costs from a Crown Court Judge.

Archive 2007-09-01 Peter Troy 2007

The photograph above is of a ''not in use'' Gatso Tax Collector in South Devon.

Archive 2007-08-01 Peter Troy 2007