That’s a Gatso camera you’re looking at there - one of the many speed cameras that infest Britain’s roads. If they actually did their job, reduced speeds and kept the roads are I wouldn’t have problem with them. Unfortunately they only cause cars to slow down in the direct vicinity of a camera, and the sudden braking an encounter with an unexpected camera tends to cause more accidents than the speeding the cameras are supposed to stop. To add to their ineffectiveness, they have to be signposted with warning signs well in advance, and because of austerity cuts, a fair proportion of them are now empty shells with no camera inside.
The word Gatso isn’t an acronym, even though it sounds like one. It’s actually made after its inventor, the Dutch rally driver Maurice Gatsonides, who made the first one so he could measure himself driving round corners and develop the prefect racing line. So they were first developed to help increase vehicle speeds.
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