Does COSINE EFFECT infect on radar cameras?

[Radar Roy]

Ya in stationary mode cosine error is good for the driver but in moving radar its the opposite (i think).

Nope, still in drivers favor

[laserblaster]

The gatsometers here in the uk are bang next to the road and theres one which is bang on a bend!

The gatso is on the left and the road bends to the left!
Obviously not good for cosine errors, it's been installed on this road for at least 2 years, and has been live a number of times.

I'm supprised it's not flashed me, everytime i pass it i expect it to...

As i understand if the gatso is pointed away from the road the error goes higher, obviously because the beam goes across the road at a certain degree, if it was moved away from the road then the beam would be going more further down rather than across it.

Also if the gatsometers housing is damaged or it looks like it's been knock the radar must go back to gatsometer for calibration.

I wonder how many gatsos have suffered knocks without anyone knowing and drivers have got tickets because the gatso has been knocked or the radars gone out of calibration?

It's a wonder in the hot summer the radars dont fall out of calibration due to heat?

[specialchicken]

over here the cameras are calibrated very often...they wont get cosign error as they are set up at about 20deg accross the road...this is ok.

[christosxo]

The gatsometers here in the uk are bang next to the road and theres one which is bang on a bend!

The gatso is on the left and the road bends to the left!
Obviously not good for cosine errors, it's been installed on this road for at least 2 years, and has been live a number of times.

I'm supprised it's not flashed me, everytime i pass it i expect it to...

As i understand if the gatso is pointed away from the road the error goes higher, obviously because the beam goes across the road at a certain degree, if it was moved away from the road then the beam would be going more further down rather than across it.

Also if the gatsometers housing is damaged or it looks like it's been knock the radar must go back to gatsometer for calibration.

I wonder how many gatsos have suffered knocks without anyone knowing and drivers have got tickets because the gatso has been knocked or the radars gone out of calibration?

It's a wonder in the hot summer the radars dont fall out of calibration due to heat?

Gatso sucks... them most of the time are not working. In Greece there are Gatso, too but many of them are not flash a long time ago. Now in many countrys police install cameras with last technology which they not use radar, like TRAFFIPHOT-S or TRAFFIPHOT-III-SR: http://www.robot.de/deutsch/produkte...messablauf.htm
http://www.robot.de/english/TPH-III-SR.swf

[bart99gt]

I would suspect that the fixed cameras can also be compensated for cosine error, i.e., if the angle to the roadway is known, the amount of cosine error could be calculated and entered into the camera to use in its speed calculation.

[christosxo]

I would suspect that the fixed cameras can also be compensated for cosine error, i.e., if the angle to the roadway is known, the amount of cosine error could be calculated and entered into the camera to use in its speed calculation.

I red in a book for a lesson about radar in my University and in a page it says that the most fixed radar cameras have an automatic mechanism of correction of cosine error. Usually cosine error you can have to radar guns. But as the other guys say here we have also moving radar cameras(Multaradar C or Multanova 6F) . Is anybody there who knows if last technology cameras like Multaradar C or Multanova 6F has an automatic mechanism of correction of cosine error??

[specialchicken]

I doubt it...all speed cameras etc have fixed antennas....they cant move

[christosxo]

I doubt it...all speed cameras etc have fixed antennas....they cant move

I mean cameras with a stand like Multaradar C and Multanova 6F etc.

[specialchicken]

I doubt it...all speed cameras etc have fixed antennas....they cant move

I mean cameras with a stand like Multaradar C and Multanova 6F etc.

these cameras are set to a guidline, a certain distance from the road and at a certain angle...they measure everything before the turn it on.

[christosxo]

Do you know what is the distance between your car and these cameras that they can take your speed?