[LaydeeMel]

I hope this goes here, i'm sure it does. :x

Well anyways I waas driving on I-35 earlier today to go to Plano in Texas, anyways when I was driving like right out of one of the major cities in Oklahoma (Norman), I saw this weird thing it looked like one of those camera's that you see at a stop light that take a picture of your car if you run it.

But it was weird cause it was like way out there where it was like nothing but a pole with it stuck on it.

Are there such things as speeding camera's? Cause I sure as hell was speeding since it was open road for me. It was just weird ...

Input please. =)

[ZiGeNX77]

I've never heard of a speeding camera. From your description it sounds like a highway monitoring camera. They use it to monitor traffic flow. I don't think you have anything to worry about.

[papasmurf]

haha i agree with ZiGeNX77, a lot of people tell that it's a speed capturing camera to scare you, but it's really a traffic flow camera or at least i hope it's not a speeding camera lol

[HERMIT]

Sample of a traffic monitoring camera.

Did it look something like that?

[Chioster]

It could be a speed camera but I may be wrong without a picture of how it looks.

It is used mainly in the UK. There should be 2 cameras about a few hundred metres away from each other. Both of them can determine what speed you went at the total time it took you to reach the last camera. Kind of hard to understand but its like checkpoints which can determine the speed using special cameras that can record your lisense plate and find the average speed between the checkpoints.

http://www.whatcar.co.uk/news-article.aspx?NA=231701

heres a good article explaining about it.

[LaydeeMel]

I couldn't really tell when I drove by it I just kinda glanced at it for a second. I don't know i'm going back to Texas this weekend so maybe when we drive by it I can snap a picture.


:s

[knitoe]

it is more than likely a traffic monitoring camera. and those 'cameras' on top of street lights you see are not cameras - they are sensors. people think they are cameras and that's probably why you seem them on every light now. but, at least here in texas, unless there is a 'Photo Enforced' sign before you reach the stop light - the intersection does not have a red light camera. also red light cameras are usually behind your car and have a flash. they are usually never in front (some cars do not have front plates) and surely not on top of a red light.

[Clix]

I don't remember speeding cameras in Oklahoma highways. I know of Kilpatrick TurnPike cameras that take pictures of cars without pike passes.

I'm pretty sure I'd hear about it because I have friends who go to Dallas and none of them have tickets.