Can Swerving Avoid Speed Camera Capture?

[Metal Head]

Hi,

I would be interested to know if deviating off a relatively straight line or swerving can avoid speed camera capture leading to a fine? Is it possible to get a speeding fine going around a bend (or bends aka going down a steep hill/mountain)?

If you have seen a blue car swerving all over the place in the northern suburbs of Melbourne then it was me and so far I have have avoided a fine Maybe the police personnel that have tried to catch me, gave up when they got sick or too dizzy.

Cheers
MH

[rsser]

Never seen a speed camera set up on a bend.

As for weaving, I doubt it. Those fixed cameras are pretty schmick. Cost $50k I'm told.

[Waldo]

If you can hook your car sideways as you go through the camera that might work.

And remember to wave to the camera as you go through.

20 years or so now in Brisbane, there used to be a camera set up on the zebra crossing at Margaret & Eagle Streets to catch jaywalkers. One day going to where the my Dad's work 4x4 was parked we crossed the crossing, and knowing about the camera we jay walked and waved to the camera as we set it off. We did this about 2-3 times.

[Gingermick]

the best way to avoid the sneaky bastewards is to drive at or below the speed limit and don't go through red lights.

[munruben]

Just take your number plates off.

[Sturdee]

I would be interested to know if deviating off a relatively straight line or swerving can avoid speed camera capture leading to a fine?

No and you could also be fined for the other traffic offences that you would be committing eg failure to indicate if you swerve into another lane and/or dangerous driving.

Is it possible to get a speeding fine going around a bend (or bends aka going down a steep hill/mountain)?

Yes, and if speeding down a steep hill etc they will also throw in the dangerous driving charge.


Just learn to obey the road rules and stop speeding.


Peter.

[FRB Design]

Stupid enough to speed stupid enough to get caught

[wheelinround]

Having watched one of the after news current affairs programs recently, their is a fellow out to prove that speed cameras mounted on poles and frames that allow vibration causes them to be out. This is fact any device such as this must remain steady. just look at USA missile launches .

If a vibrating weaving body is receiving the signal and it bounces back then surely it can't be accurate, such as a truck trailer which is always lurching., road vibration shape of vehicle if a bird flys through which has a metal band on it same thing.

Then there is camera & computer malfunction shutter lag and time delay, not to mention clock accuracy settings.

[Metal Head]

Hi,

Thanks for the replies. The reason I asked was that I read a few weeks ago that when the cameras that are set up either set up in or outside a car are done within certain parameters. Yet if a car doesn't travel along the road within the width of a marked lane (as most do) then the angle projection is incorrect thus the speed can be deceived into giving a false reading.

So what makes an hand held one deemed as more accurate - surely a nervous (or ) cop shaking would distort a true reading?

What's your opinion?

Cheers
MH

[joe greiner]

You can safely assume that setup errors and false readings operate in YOUR favour, and under-report violations. So don't count on that as a get-out-of-jail card, even if it's a false assumption.

Cops I've discussed this with admit they donate 6 units of measurement (mph, kph) before citation; 3 for your speedo error, and 3 for theirs. Bathroom scales are similarly out of precision.

Removing your number plates is a separate violation.

What's the rush? To wait longer at the next traffic light? To be the guest of honour at the cemetery?

Cheers,
Joe

[artme]

I think Oz and US enforcement authorities wout have a field day - every day - here in Brasil. Technically very good drivers but they have absolutely no regard for the rules of the road at all.

Speeding, dangerous overtakinking, not stopping at pedestrian crossings, through red lights, talking on the mobile. You name, it they do it all the bloody time. I live in a state of perpetual terror.

[Ellemcbeast]

Metalhead,

If vibration, swerving, movement, etc negates accurate speed cameras, how come they can be used in mobile police cars???

[Gingermick]

I wouldn't think something shaking or wobbling with velocity of maybe 50 metres per second will make much difference to a wave travelling at a couple of hundred million metres per second.

[corbs]

Maybe if you swerve into the pole that is holding the camera? Or you could try this, seems they aren't very popular

[rrobor]

Gingermick has it spot on. the beam that bounced off your car is traveling at thousands of kilometers a second so your little wobbly fit isnt noticed. As to poles shaking, same thing, The radar will be in the Gigaherts range thats 10 to the power 9 KM per second, a trucks vibrations at that speed will not mean one thing. So in front of Milud, I wouldnt try to get off with that, though he may knock off a few bucks for giving him a laugh.