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aardvaak
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Firstly I have no issue with them just wondered....

What would happen if you passed a average Speed camera level with a large lorry - would it fail to detect you?
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  • Alter_ego
    Alter_ego Posts: 3,842 Forumite
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    The ones I've seen have a camera covering each lane. (Overhead)
    I am not a cat (But my friend is)
  • Johno100
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    Alter_ego wrote: »
    The ones I've seen have a camera covering each lane. (Overhead)

    So you'd have to be close behind or just in front of the lorry (depending on what direction the cameras face) to potentially avoid detection.
  • kmb500
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    If you were right up behind the lorry then yeah it would fail to get you I guess. But would be extremely dangerous to be so close to the back of it especially at speed
  • Browntoa
    Browntoa Posts: 49,602 Forumite
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    Our local ones have a sort of L shape on the road with LED lights glaring down on it alongside the camera
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  • ThinkingOutLoud_2
    ThinkingOutLoud_2 Posts: 1,402 Forumite
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    What are you trying to achieve anyway?

    Just because you don't get a ticket - speeding through roadworks where people are working feet from you car makes it ok?

    And driving "erratically" so as to hide behind lorries seems to be a poor idea surely?

    So once you are past that camera - isn't everyone else in front of you sticking to that limit and staying in lane - so where will you get to by doing this? 300 metres further forwards? A distance you will travel in around 10 seconds on a motorway.

    Arrive 10 seconds later and save us all.
    I am just thinking out loud - nothing I say should be relied upon!
    I do however reserve the right to be correct by accident.
  • facade
    facade Posts: 7,584 Forumite
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    Just do as Clarkson suggested. Stop right after the camera and wait a few minutes, then you can drive at 180mph until you pass the next one.
    I want to go back to The Olden Days, when every single thing that I can think of was better.....

    (except air quality and Medical Science ;))
  • aardvaak
    aardvaak Posts: 5,834 Forumite
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    Alter_ego wrote: »
    The ones I've seen have a camera covering each lane. (Overhead)

    The ones I have seen are on the side of the road
  • aardvaak
    aardvaak Posts: 5,834 Forumite
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    ThinkingOutLoud wrote: »
    What are you trying to achieve anyway?

    Just because you don't get a ticket - speeding through roadworks where people are working feet from you car makes it ok?

    And driving "erratically" so as to hide behind lorries seems to be a poor idea surely?

    So once you are past that camera - isn't everyone else in front of you sticking to that limit and staying in lane - so where will you get to by doing this? 300 metres further forwards? A distance you will travel in around 10 seconds on a motorway.

    Arrive 10 seconds later and save us all.

    You obviously did'nt read the original question correctly - I have no issue with them
  • ThinkingOutLoud_2
    ThinkingOutLoud_2 Posts: 1,402 Forumite
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    Better to buy a helicopter ?
    I am just thinking out loud - nothing I say should be relied upon!
    I do however reserve the right to be correct by accident.
  • neilmcl
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    aardvaak wrote: »
    The ones I have seen are on the side of the road
    They still cover the whole carriageway.
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