3 Responses to “Who designed the first speed camera?”

1. telluwat on October 2nd, 2009 3:43 pm

   Dutch company Gatsometer BV, founded by the 1950s rally driver Maurice Gatsonides, invented the initially road-rule enforcement cameras. Gatsonides wished to best monitor his speed nearly the corners of a race track and came up with the device in order to increase his time nearly the circuit [2]. The company developed the initially radar for use with road traffic, and is the world’s largest supplier of speed camera systems. Because of this, in some countries all makes of speed cameras are sometimes generically referred to as "Gatsos". They are also sometimes referred to as "photo radar", even though many of them do not use radar.

   The initially systems introduced in the late 1960s used film cameras to take their pictures. From the late 1990s, digital cameras started to be introduced. Digital cameras can be fitted with a modem or other electronic interface to transfer images to a central processing location automatically, so they have advantages over film cameras in speed of issuing fines, and operational monitoring. But, film-based systems still provide superior image quality in the variety of lighting conditions encountered on roads, the lack of pixilation and in some jurisdictions are vital by the courts (due to the ease with which digital images may be modified. New film-based systems are still being sold but digital pictures are as long as the greater versatility (*not quality) due to ease of data transmision.

2. Edwin on October 2nd, 2009 3:43 pm

   Please clarify what you mean by "speed camera". I just did a search for high speed camera and found an brilliant explanation on wikipedia.

   Somehow it seems odd that a 60 yr. ancient is doing web searches for these young by all accounts "computer savvy" people.

3. victor98_2001 on October 2nd, 2009 3:43 pm

   David Copperfield

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