Attention radar
12/30/2012
37% of German drivers who took part in an opinion poll published last week by the magazine AMS have been caught by speed cameras in the last 12 months. Of these, 59% were caught once, 28% twice, 9% three times and 3% even more often.
Drivers used to have it much easier, because at the beginning of radar technology, the devices were very expensive, huge and therefore easy to spot and, finally, the post-processing of the images was time-consuming and purely manual work, whereas today the whole process is largely automated.
Modern radar devices (which can soon be found every few hundred meters in cities) also pose a particular "danger" for classic cars, as the current models measure extremely accurately and the tolerance applied by the authorities is sometimes as low as 3 km/h. Anyone who has ever seen an old car's speedometer needle swinging happily or shaking badly knows that driving at exactly 30 or 50 km/h is no easy task. If you go slower, you stress out the people behind you, if you go too fast, it gets expensive ...
Incidentally, reports on the sense and fallibility of speed monitoring can be found as early as 1960, for example in ADAC Motorwelt No. 3/1960.
