"nightjar" wrote in message
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On 24/10/2019 16:27, NY wrote:
In a village near me there is a lamp-post in a 30 mph zone which has a
rectangular metal "tube" about 1 foot long by 6" square which is pointing
straight down at the road surface by the post. There is also another
device alongside, again pointing at the road. There are no road markings
like you get with speed cameras. I presume the larger device is a camera
and the smaller one is a light. The cameras are angled so steeply that
they could not see the number-plate of a car. There is also a box on the
lamp-post which may be some form of control module.

https://i.postimg.cc/h49P8qLF/vlcsna...s127-small.png

Ignore the curvature of the lamp-post: it's distortion from the lens in
my dashcam: I had to wait until I was close to the lamp-post to get the
largest image, and that's when it's on the edge of the frame where
distortion is greatest.

Any ideas? I'm intrigued.

My guess would be a CCTV system that is not yet in use.

Why two separate devices tho ? Surely yours don’t normally
have two and given they are different size, not very likely
to be one for each direction when in use unless they just
happen to have changed models and somewhere has to
have a mismatched pair. And why point them at the ground
instead of just disabling them in the control unit ?