Comments on: New Speed Cameras installed in Qatar (Mr. Q’s concept becomes reality!)

By: gene

gene — Thu, 20 May 2010 06:31:31 +0000

Don’t be fooled by the similairities between the camera in the photo and the camera’s in dubai. I have a feeling that the Qatari’s purchased from the same vendor, but bought the upscale version as opposed to the UAE.
The artile explains that the vehicle is tagged and photographed as it passes camera (1), tnen the tag is checked at camera (2), if your average speed is above the limit, the MOI will appreciate your donation.
There are many ways to beat the older “flash” type camera’s, just google it and you will find.
However this technology is harder to fool, since there is no signal emmitted from the camera towards approaching vehicles.

Since all modern automobiles have an onboard computer, you know the next technology, is a chip with information that can be read from traffic departments via sensors, that will automatically monitor your driving habits…
Just think about the way you drive…and then think, someone is always watching….
Technology…gotta love it…lol

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:17:12 +0000

We’ve had these in the UK for a while, and they’re both great and a pain. While they do make everyone slow down they also make you spend longer checking the speedometer, which can’t be as good for safety.

Another niggle we have is that they’re mostly used on motorways when there are roadworks, apparently to protect the workforce – who aren’t there half the time! If there’s no-one to protect why can’t I go 70mph instead of 40?

By: Salman

Salman — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:43:20 +0000

You talked about how fast to go when you slow down part of the way between cameras. Actually, it’s a little bit better than that. If you went 60 kmh for 50 meters, you could go 120 for the other 50 meters (not 100) before reaching the next camera if the speed limit were 80 kmh.

To simplify it a bit, let’s use a 20 km distance between cameras. Going 80 kmh, it would take 15 minutes to complete the distance. Therefore you would not want to reach the next camera sooner than that.

Going 60 kmh for 10 km (half the distance) would take 10 minutes, so you’d have 5 minutes left for the other 10 km. How fast can you go? 120 kmh if the speed limit is 80 would avoid a speeding fine.

When comes the time that driving gets slow and boring, I hope there will be bullet trains to take us where we need to go instead.

How are you Khalifa? I hope all is well insha’ Allah. Keep up the good work with your blog and website.

By: Ahmad

Ahmad — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:45:10 +0000

I also read about this technology somewhere in one of the news papers before.

however, I’m pretty positive this is not the you’re talking about, Khalifa. This camera shown in the photo is exactly the same cameras they have in Dubai. The ones in dubai DO flash, trust me, I’d know. This yellow square is where the flash shoots from.

I don’t know what Kattan meant but i’m sure this technology can be done easily. It’s already being used for other applications, like Peter mentioned.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:35:28 +0000

Optical Character Recognition works on license plates. California is full of those “friendly” reminder signs, that show your speed when you approach them. Except they show you license plate number right over it. A lot more effective in slowing you down.

By: Kei

Kei — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:17:21 +0000

why wouldn’t that work? There’s optical character recognition.

By: kattan2000

kattan2000 — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:05:27 +0000

This cannot be done either with a bar code reader or that kind of technology. Cameras cannot detect the numbers of number plate by itself.

By: Dragos

Dragos — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:27:10 +0000

good article!