Müller
Active Member
Hello.
By accident (or: the adequate tools) the secret doings of these "bystanders" have been revealed to me: What i knew: The purpose of these at first glance silent posts positioned at the side of the road (property of the company Toll Collect GmbH) is to check the oncoming traffic for participants who have to pay for using these roads. No speed-check. For this, some wireless communication between the internals of the post and a device placed in the relevant cars is taking place. Here starts the part i and/or most people didn´t/do not know because it cannot be seen since it all takes place outside the VIS-range (at least in the dark), and that is that these posts are taking pictures continuously, several times per second, of every participant of the oncoming traffic, no exception of relevant car, just car, moped, rollator, deer, fox, hedgehog or cat. I don´t know what happens to those pics after they´ve been taken but i guess the ones of the relevant pay-worthy participants are kept and send to some central database, the others, i hope, will be discarded. There are privacy-protection laws. Right? RIGHT?? ... Oo
So two interesting things to observe here: That these "silent" posts are actually machine-gun busy open-air photo-studios and the activity of the readout-zone of the A139 and additionally some things that are going on in this zone. (btw.: The readout-zone is moving vertically from bottom to top of the pics (so no bending of vertical lines/objects in the video-footage). In the video it´s much better to see.))
Nothing to see in VIS. Just a post:
But fireworks in IR:
By accident (or: the adequate tools) the secret doings of these "bystanders" have been revealed to me: What i knew: The purpose of these at first glance silent posts positioned at the side of the road (property of the company Toll Collect GmbH) is to check the oncoming traffic for participants who have to pay for using these roads. No speed-check. For this, some wireless communication between the internals of the post and a device placed in the relevant cars is taking place. Here starts the part i and/or most people didn´t/do not know because it cannot be seen since it all takes place outside the VIS-range (at least in the dark), and that is that these posts are taking pictures continuously, several times per second, of every participant of the oncoming traffic, no exception of relevant car, just car, moped, rollator, deer, fox, hedgehog or cat. I don´t know what happens to those pics after they´ve been taken but i guess the ones of the relevant pay-worthy participants are kept and send to some central database, the others, i hope, will be discarded. There are privacy-protection laws. Right? RIGHT?? ... Oo
So two interesting things to observe here: That these "silent" posts are actually machine-gun busy open-air photo-studios and the activity of the readout-zone of the A139 and additionally some things that are going on in this zone. (btw.: The readout-zone is moving vertically from bottom to top of the pics (so no bending of vertical lines/objects in the video-footage). In the video it´s much better to see.))
Nothing to see in VIS. Just a post:
But fireworks in IR: