How fast to beat a speed Camera?
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From elsewhere
Myth 1: One in five drivers believe you can drive fast enough to beat a speed camera.
The reality is that the vehicle would need to be travelling at 171mph or above to technically 'outrun' A STANDARD speed camera; few cars on the road are capable of that kind of speed. Even if you do have such a car, attempting this is a very high risk strategy, as just 1 mph below 171 and… well it’s safe to say that most judges take a very dim view indeed of drivers who drive 100 mph over the limit and you will end up in the clink for quite some time.
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Myth 1: One in five drivers believe you can drive fast enough to beat a speed camera.
The reality is that the vehicle would need to be travelling at 171mph or above to technically 'outrun' A STANDARD speed camera; few cars on the road are capable of that kind of speed. Even if you do have such a car, attempting this is a very high risk strategy, as just 1 mph below 171 and… well it’s safe to say that most judges take a very dim view indeed of drivers who drive 100 mph over the limit and you will end up in the clink for quite some time.
dvd
Dwight VanDriver said:
From elsewhere
Myth 1: One in five drivers believe you can drive fast enough to beat a speed camera.
The reality is that the vehicle would need to be travelling at 171mph or above to technically 'outrun' A STANDARD speed camera; few cars on the road are capable of that kind of speed. Even if you do have such a car, attempting this is a very high risk strategy, as just 1 mph below 171 and… well it’s safe to say that most judges take a very dim view indeed of drivers who drive 100 mph over the limit and you will end up in the clink for quite some time.
dvd
That means you will have to be going abou 200ish to make sure. Myth 1: One in five drivers believe you can drive fast enough to beat a speed camera.
The reality is that the vehicle would need to be travelling at 171mph or above to technically 'outrun' A STANDARD speed camera; few cars on the road are capable of that kind of speed. Even if you do have such a car, attempting this is a very high risk strategy, as just 1 mph below 171 and… well it’s safe to say that most judges take a very dim view indeed of drivers who drive 100 mph over the limit and you will end up in the clink for quite some time.
dvd
Also, does this mean that if a car is photographed and then in the next photograph the car is not present will the driver be prosecuted anyway as the only other way the car could have disappeared would be if the car had been teleported or flew?
MK4 Slowride said:
Mythbusters tried this with a Murci Lambo (orange one) & failed to fool it with speed or other ingenius contraptions.
I think the rules are different in the US of A, and they dont need 2 photo's, as the british GATSO's do.IIRC with the Top Gear test at 170+ (or whatever speed it was they were doing) the camera failed to detect the tuscan at all and didnt activate, as opposed to the car not being there for the second photo. I dont think anything other then then a fighter jet could pull that off...
James
Edited by jimmy306 on Friday 19th September 16:22
Dwight VanDriver said:
From elsewhere
Myth 1: One in five drivers believe you can drive fast enough to beat a speed camera.
The reality is that the vehicle would need to be travelling at 171mph or above to technically 'outrun' A STANDARD speed camera; few cars on the road are capable of that kind of speed. Even if you do have such a car, attempting this is a very high risk strategy, as just 1 mph below 171 and… well it’s safe to say that most judges take a very dim view indeed of drivers who drive 100 mph over the limit and you will end up in the clink for quite some time.
dvd
Wasn't there a biker that got prosecuted and banned for a long time after being pinged by a laser at 171 even though it was above their highest limit?Myth 1: One in five drivers believe you can drive fast enough to beat a speed camera.
The reality is that the vehicle would need to be travelling at 171mph or above to technically 'outrun' A STANDARD speed camera; few cars on the road are capable of that kind of speed. Even if you do have such a car, attempting this is a very high risk strategy, as just 1 mph below 171 and… well it’s safe to say that most judges take a very dim view indeed of drivers who drive 100 mph over the limit and you will end up in the clink for quite some time.
dvd
The Black Duke said:
Is it possible to drive past a speed camera so slow that its too fast to detect you? Pureley a hypothetical question.
If you drive past it at below the limit, it won't trigger but the radar part of the speed detector will still know that you're there.However you do need to be traveling at some speed for the radar to detect you, travel past infinitely slowly and it won't detect you, not sure what the limits are but I suspect that more than walking pace and it will detect.
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