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Cameras for automatic registration of traffic violations have long been an integral part of a typical Russian roadside landscape. Nevertheless, drivers periodically notice new ambiguous manifestations behind them.
Those motorists who, during their travels, not only look at the road, but also pay attention to other things happening on the sides, probably noticed unusual lighting effects, the source of which turned out to be police road cameras that monitor anything and everything. Mind you, we’re not talking about the red and blue “flashing lights” that the police in some places hang high above the ground on posts along the road for some reason. What practical significance lies in their nightglow is unknown. After all, few sensible motorists would believe for a second that a traffic policeman has climbed onto a lamppost together with his patrol car and is monitoring road safety from there… In this article we think of something else.
The phenomenon we are interested in manifests itself in the following way. The car approaches the traffic police camera, and at some point the driver sees a red flash or a white flash from one of the complex’s devices. Lighting “effects” are not particularly powerful, the driver’s eyes do not dazzle. But they attract attention. As for the “red flash”, it is most often associated with the operation of the automatic restraining complex, which is configured to follow an unfastened seat belt or talk on the phone while driving.
In order for the camera to see something in the dark interior of a passing car, improved auxiliary lighting is required. It is provided by a pulsed IR illuminator – a “round” device, usually mounted next to the camera. In daylight, the appearance of this “flashlight” is almost unnoticeable. But at night it is perfect to see. And as for flashes of white light from traffic police cameras at night, you can also see them, you almost drive under the complex itself. It is logical to assume that this is also a kind of lighting equipment.
However, nothing is known to the general public about the illumination of Russian automatic traffic violation systems operating in the visible range. And why is it necessary if there are already and successfully used IR emitters. In fact, the nature of the “white flashes” of police cameras has nothing to do with him. It’s just a reflection of the headlights.
It’s just that at some point you pass through the area in front of the camera, where part of the light from the car headlights of the cars walking behind you falls, reflected from the glass of the lens of the video block of the fixation complex. And since you skip this place at a decent speed, the police optics headlights are perceived by the driver as a short flash.
Those motorists who, during their travels, not only look at the road, but also pay attention to other things happening on the sides, probably noticed unusual lighting effects, the source of which turned out to be police road cameras that monitor anything and everything. Mind you, we’re not talking about the red and blue “flashing lights” that the police in some places hang high above the ground on posts along the road for some reason. What practical significance lies in their nightglow is unknown. After all, few sensible motorists would believe for a second that a traffic policeman has climbed onto a lamppost together with his patrol car and is monitoring road safety from there… In this article we think of something else.
The phenomenon we are interested in manifests itself in the following way. The car approaches the traffic police camera, and at some point the driver sees a red flash or a white flash from one of the complex’s devices. Lighting “effects” are not particularly powerful, the driver’s eyes do not dazzle. But they attract attention. As for the “red flash”, it is most often associated with the operation of the automatic restraining complex, which is configured to follow an unfastened seat belt or talk on the phone while driving.
In order for the camera to see something in the dark interior of a passing car, improved auxiliary lighting is required. It is provided by a pulsed IR illuminator – a “round” device, usually mounted next to the camera. In daylight, the appearance of this “flashlight” is almost unnoticeable. But at night it is perfect to see. And as for flashes of white light from traffic police cameras at night, you can also see them, you almost drive under the complex itself. It is logical to assume that this is also a kind of lighting equipment.
However, nothing is known to the general public about the illumination of Russian automatic traffic violation systems operating in the visible range. And why is it necessary if there are already and successfully used IR emitters. In fact, the nature of the “white flashes” of police cameras has nothing to do with him. It’s just a reflection of the headlights.
It’s just that at some point you pass through the area in front of the camera, where part of the light from the car headlights of the cars walking behind you falls, reflected from the glass of the lens of the video block of the fixation complex. And since you skip this place at a decent speed, the police optics headlights are perceived by the driver as a short flash.
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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