Thread: Can Swerving Avoid Speed Camera Capture?

A Creative Director I worked with many years ago, on a shoot on a leafy Sydney street on the North Shore prior to the photo shoot had all the parking meters cut off with an angle grinder at ground level. (no he didn't have council permission )

Maybe the same approach could be applied to speed cameras.

Originally Posted by Waldo

A Creative Director I worked with many years ago, on a shoot on a leafy Sydney street on the North Shore prior to the photo shoot had all the parking meters cut off with an angle grinder at ground level. (no he didn't have council permission )

Maybe the same approach could be applied to speed cameras.

except arround here the spped cameras all seem to be monitored by one or two surveilance cameras


personally, I rather like Rowan Atkins approach in "Johnny English"

If the speed camera is on a pole, it may be possible to mount your number plates at a 45° angle to the horizontal. From ground level, it would be possible for the authorities to read your number plate, it would be rather difficult for the camera to do the same. However you might get nicked for not having illuminated number plates at night.

It would be easy to bend aluminium bar stock into a triangle mounting bracket for your number plate.

I imagine there are two theories at work here:

The first is that swerving or changing direction means the beam won't get back to the gadget. As earlier answers have pointed out, you are talking speed of light here. Otherwise aircraft would keep dropping off the screen every time they changed direction.

The second is that changing your path means you have a lesser actual speed along the line of the road probably wouldn't work either for the same reason - you can't keep a straight line deviation long enough. Roads are only so wide.

If you really want to dodge the fines yet insist on speeding you'd have to contact someone in the defence industries and get some radar absorbent paint

Cheers,
Jim

Yesterday, on my way to getting lost, I saw a police car flashing and thought "gee that's weird. Usually its other cars flashing when there is a police car". Later I worked out that the flashing means that their speed camera has gone off, as one flashed at me. In the dark, on a bend, going round a corner. In the second instance the police car was stationary but on the middle nature strip in the pitch black. Scared the bejeezus out of me when it flashed in my eyes. Could of caused an accident I reckon. (In my defense, I was trying to get past some numb-skull in front that was doing wierd maneuvers. Best to get past those. Concentration on doing that rather than the speed and it crept up. )

Keep that up tea lady and you are going to have a short spell sitting home drinking what Im sure is a lovely brew. As to the guy altering number plates, they are fitted to conform to specs. Outside that and Mr Plod will feel your collar. People have tried all sorts from special paints, to light sensers that trigger a flash across the numberplate to over expose the camera. Some work but if you are caught, its up in front of Milud not just a spot fine. As Dirty Harry said. "Do you feel lucky punk".

Originally Posted by tea lady

Concentration on doing that rather than the speed and it crept up. )

That's the best argument against cameras. You need to concentrate on the road not your speedo.

Cant let you off with that Gingermick. Being a long time fan of Monty Python, I can tell you, you can get a machine that goes beep when you are heavy on the foot.

Originally Posted by rrobor

Cant let you off with that Gingermick. Being a long time fan of Monty Python, I can tell you, you can get a machine that goes beep when you are heavy on the foot.

my commodore does that - irritating but useful
Jim

The Poms make a national sport of destroyng speed cameras......

http://www.speedcam.co.uk/gatso2.htm

Originally Posted by Mini

The Poms make a national sport of destroyng speed cameras......

http://www.speedcam.co.uk/gatso2.htm

Don't know if it's true but an English bloke told me they don't have hidden speed cameras - against human rights or something.
Another digression - do carbon fibre bodied cars give a 'good' enough signal to radar traps?
Jim

Heavy braking works fine.............they cant see for the smoke.
only problem is a set of tyres costs more than the fine.

cheers mick

Originally Posted by madmix

Heavy braking works fine.............they cant see for the smoke.
only problem is a set of tyres costs more than the fine.

cheers mick

From the funniest thing I ever saw department. Bloke sees a red light camera just after he has decided that the red light means go harder. It was a down hill left hander so he hits the picks really hard, locks everything up and it gets sideways and rolls after hitting the centre island and takes one of the traffic lights out. The fine would have been cheaper methinks!!