Far more high-tech than they look... honest
The Tele Atlas vans have between six and eight cameras mounted on them to take images of the passing roads and landmarks. They take three shots per second which are then stored on hard drives located in the van.
The van co-driver views the live images on a tablet PC mounted on the dashboard to monitor the picture quality.
Photo credit: Tim Ferguson
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1. Roy Corneloues
How green is this fleet of vans? Do they run on bio-fuel or LPG?
Considering the mileage they do Tele Atlas must have thought about the enviromental impact...
2. Tim Hughes
If anyone is navigating along the A52 - Derby to Ashbourne - using this technology in the future, then I'm the bloke in the red fiesta behind you! I wondered what they were doing, needless to say I stayed well within the speed limit, even after I spotted the Belgian number plate.