Craig W
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Taken from someone else...
Our Highways and Transportation Division (we manage the motorway
> maintenance for the Highways Agency) have just received the following
> notification:
>
> The new electronic signs on the M6 were switched on this Tuesday. The bad
> news is that they are rigged with the SPECS speed cameras. This probably
> applies to all the new signs being installed on the M62, M60 and M56.
> SPECS
> is a computer-camera based system.
>
> As you go past the sign a digital camera reads your number plate. When
> you
> go past the next sign your number plate is read again. The computer
> 'knows'
> how far apart the signs are so it can work out your average speed between
> the two, or three or four.
>
> The system is fully automatic and will issue a ticket without any form of
> human intervention. It does this for every single vehicle that passes. You
> will not know you have been caught until the ticket drops through your
> letterbox as the cameras don't flash. They work 24/7, 365 days a year, and
> theoretically, there's absolutely no limit on the number of tickets that
> the system can issue.
>
> The whole section of the M6 between Knutsford and Preston is wired, both
> ways. The system is set to trigger a ticket at 78MPH. (10% tolerance - but
> don't take this as a guarantee) Radar detectors will be of no use as SPECS
> is entirely passive, there is no laser beam to detect.
>
>
> Be warned and spread the news!
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StuartVRS
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posted on audisport too, its a load of crap so we have been told.
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Trotty
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Similar to the ones that have been installed on parts of the M4 as well, although there still seems to be some confusion as to whether they're actually active or not yet?
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andy hirst
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If there are any good hackers out there, get to work and get in to that system and fuck it up.
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StuartVRS
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this was a reply on audisport
I got this mail a while a go, except M6 was replaced with M4.
This is the response from the Association of British Drivers ( http://www.abd.org.uk ):
M4 SPECS Rumour False
Another silly rumour is being circulated about SPECS speed cameras being hidden in new message signs on the M4 between J12 and J14. The Highways Agency have advised us that this is not true. The signs are merely linked to sensors that monitor overall traffic speed in order to activate the warning signs.
A similar rumour was circulated earlier this year relating to such signs on the M4 in South Wales. There is a growing suspicion that these rumours are being deliberately engineered by anti-car groups.
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AndyCorsa
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I got this e-mailed to me at work. Then I got told it's all a load of b*llocks.
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Colin.S
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http://www.blackspot.com/specs.htm
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Trotty
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Ah! Fair do's then 
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