What do Red Light Camera look like?

Question

What do Red Light Traffic Cameras look like? Are they always big and easy to spot? Are they always either yellow or grey?

Basically, are they easily visible? I've noted a few small black boxes on top of traffic lights and wondered if they were also Red Light Traffic Cameras?

Answer 1

Go to the center of Amsterdam and see what the tourists are using.

Answer 2

Where I live (US), red light cameras are usually small and not easily noticeable. The authorities don't want you to be able to notice them - that would defeat their purpose.

The small black box that you see on top of traffic lights could have been placed there by the DOT, in order to count the number of vehicles that travel through a particular intersection on a given day; or it could be an automatic timing device that turns the traffic light from red to green, and back again at regular intervals..

Answer 3

Where I live, they are a camera in a tamper-proof metal housing with a couple of flash lamps mounted on a pole.

Answer 4

In my experience, they're pretty damn big. A giant box, and there has to be some kind of light, or else it won't work at night. However, there will ALWAYS be a sign, I think it says "photo enforced" or something like that. Fortunately in CA they're really rare now.

Answer 5

Friend sometimes you can't even see them. Sometimes there are tiny little dot . And sometimes they're not even on the red light.

Sometimes the red light has a sensor on it that tracks the speed of the person going through the red light and if the person actually makes it through the red light. And if you violate the red light. A camera which is sitting on a phone pole right through the red light get a very clear shot of your license plate. The best thing you can possibly do is to get yourself an anti picture license plate cover they sell them there a clear polarized cover that doesn't allow you to take a picture you can see right through the plastic but the camera can't.

Answer 6

Obey traffic laws and you won't have to worry about it.

Answer 7

They are accompanied by some form of illumination, either a flash or an IR illuminator, because they have to take a clear unambiguous snap of an offending vehicle. Very common at junctions are those little things which are in fact traffic flow monitors used to alter the phasing of lights or simply cameras to monitor traffic flow for a control room somewhere.

Answer 8

The actual red light cameras have to use flash devices. They are big and easy to spot. What you are seeing are motion detection cameras that tell the light when to change.

Answer 9

Traffic camera's that are there to catch you jumping a red light have to follow the same rules as speed cameras in the UK - they have to be visible and painted yellow.

Those little black box cameras on top of a set of lights are sensors that let a set of lights know that cars are coming/waiting so can change the lights from red to green or vice versa.

Answer 10

It's just a feeling you get. Believe me, if you ever see a red light camera, you just know :)