Speed cameras are a pain, but they're not that hard to spot.
Get a GPS-type detector if you're that worried about them.
Paint etc is a waste of time - use mud or take your number plate off if you've got that much of a problem. I drove round for a month with no front plate on, in and out of london etc past quite a few police cars, and no one stopped me. If they do stop you, you just tell em someone knocked it off and you are going to get it fixed.
up to 6 bloody points now and i was only doing 43 miles per hour in a 40mph zone...
i say burn all speed cameras....
I agree with Lissa the speed limits are a bit long in the tooth.
Latest information says that the gov have put a hold on new speed camera sites although laser detectors will soon be illegal the GPS speed camera locators aren't and won't be. One of the cheapest is the inforad at about £80 and will give you a warning for mobile and fixed camera positions as although the cameras can be mobile there locations have to be approved and are therefor mapped on the locator websites. The gov have to provide this information to the mapping people.
Lets remember the are called SAFTEY CAMERAS and that's why the gov have to let us know wher the safety blackspots are...
While the local safety camera partnerships provide the info about mobile cams, in most cases they aren't going to have the vans there. They just say they are, maybe, in the next week or so, possibly......traffic using the gps location system slow down in THAT area and the rest have to as well. A bit like the 56 mph on trucks (until the drivers foundout how to remove the fuses).
Most mway cams are on gantrys, you look for the space bars on the road.....well, most of those are spoofs now as well !
If you're in Northants, don't be fooled by the cams looking at the other side of the road, loads of cams now do BOTH sides at the same time...look for the space bars on BOTH sides...loads of bikers have been caught by this one...While I'm on about Northants, the speed-over-distance-cams (BIG cams on BIG gantrys) that photo you passing a measured distance and calculate your speed over that distance, they also work over the NEXT measured distance as well....so you think "great, I've got out of that by doing 53 over the last space so I'll speed up a bit...WRONG...the bloody things go on for MILES (one of the best laybys in Northants has two of these right at the end of it....that should slow the drive-bys down a bit)
Also note that the truvelo cams are digital....they can also be used as cctv....
Coming soon: number plates with encased transponders
Personally, I find that keeping at or below the speed limit works for me !
I never ever ever speed in built up areas. But I find it really hard not to on motorways and dual carriageways. Not just because it is frustrating driving slowly when the road and conditions would allow for a higher safe speed but because when every other car on the road is doing over 70mph then you pretty much have no choice but to keep up with the flow of traffic. You are taught that your driving should not cause another driver to have to stop, SLOW DOWN or change direction.
Get a couple of small slave flash guns from your local photography shop. These are the ones that trigger from the light of the main flash going off and are meant to provide "fill-in" flash for photgraphy.
Put one in the front window, one in the back and when the flash goes off they will reply in kind. This will hopelessly over expose the image and the camera cant see a thing.
This idea was dreamt up by some celeb's minders and was first used to frustrate papparazzi trying to take photos of people getting in and out of limos. (The guns are let into the door panels)
It was tested a couple of years ago by What Car" and it works a treat.
Of course, it's illegal.
And it won't work on the new fangled cameras that don't take flash photos.
try getting done for drivin in a bus lane over the xmas period i got a loverly 50 gbp fine.
the road was bloody empty.....and i was ina road i didnt know and ended up driving in the bus lane grrrrr....
pished of Mike
I have posted about these on another site. A driver crossed the white line, not the junction, so that an ambulance under police escort could proceed and got "done for the technical offecne of activating the camera DESPIITE THE POLICE ACCEPTING HIS STORY THAT HE HAD NO INTENTION OF CROSSING THE JUNCTION!
- don't do fag packet calcs in yer head when yer pissed I say. Martie (see below) has pointed it out but he calculated something different to what I was saying ( 10% not 10 MPH). If you travelled at say 40 mph instead of 30mph for 5000 miles a year you'd save about 40 hours a year. If you value that as working time at £25 an hour that works out at £1000 a year still a tidy sum. Thanks to Martie.
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