Average Speed cameras

Johno100

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.

Has a post been removed? What you have written bears no relevance to what preceded it.

ThinkingOutLoud_2

aardvaak wrote: »

You obviously did'nt read the original question correctly - I have no issue with them

With respect, I failed to see why anyone would be interested unless it was to evade detection.

I also failed to see that it wasn't obvious that a camera can't see through a lorry to a car on the other side. So I looked for another motivation.

My apologies.

As others said, whether the camera sees you is down to where you are in relation to the lorry and the camera.

Of course, as the signs often say, these sectors are also patrolled by traffic officers in marked / unmarked cars.

So I guess a hidden question is what they would be able to do if they saw you deliberately alter speed so as to hide behind a lorry?:(

aardvaak

ThinkingOutLoud wrote: »

With respect, I failed to see why anyone would be interested unless it was to evade detection.

I also failed to see that it wasn't obvious that a camera can't see through a lorry to a car on the other side. So I looked for another motivation.

My apologies.

As others said, whether the camera sees you is down to where you are in relation to the lorry and the camera.

Of course, as the signs often say, these sectors are also patrolled by traffic officers in marked / unmarked cars.

So I guess a hidden question is what they would be able to do if they saw you deliberately alter speed so as to hide behind a lorry?:(

I have not tried to evade anything - I was just interested there is'nt always any other motive in a question

gilbert_and_sullivan

facade wrote: »

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 watched a geezer following that advice in the long term road works on the A45 Coventry last year, 2 cameras about a mile apart, he went past the first one around 40 at the speed limit then accelerated to probably 70mph overtook a whole line of cars, then slowed up to probably 20mph a few hundreds yards before the second camera (now holding others up) to even the speed out, to be fair he probably jumped twenty cars so maybe made one light change at the roundabout.

He must have thought it worth it, maybe he had done the run on a stopwatch so knew exactly how long to cross the second camera, not often you see it quite that blatantly, but takes all sorts i suppose.

Mercdriver

gilbert_and_sullivan wrote: »

I watched a geezer following that advice in the long term road works on the A45 Coventry last year, 2 cameras about a mile apart, he went past the first one around 40 at the speed limit then accelerated to probably 70mph overtook a whole line of cars, then slowed up to probably 20mph a few hundreds yards before the second camera (now holding others up) to even the speed out, to be fair he probably jumped twenty cars so maybe made one light change at the roundabout.

He must have thought it worth it, maybe he had done the run on a stopwatch so knew exactly how long to cross the second camera, not often you see it quite that blatantly, but takes all sorts i suppose.

Whether it would have worked is another matter. There are still people around that think it is an average of the speeds at which you pass the cameras, rather than the simple arithmetic of known distance over time...

Strider590

aardvaak wrote: »

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?

Along those lines, BMW / Audi drivers have worked out that if they tailgate the car in front of them as they exit the speed check zone, the front facing cameras can't see their number plate.

BeenThroughItAll

Strider590 wrote: »

Along those lines, BMW / Audi drivers have worked out that if they tailgate the car in front of them as they exit the speed check zone, the front facing cameras can't see their number plate.

Just to save us all time (and your own in writing the posts), why don't you just give us a list of all the things/people/ages/races you DON'T hold a grudge against/stereotype of/disparaging opinion of, or generally dislike due to the many chips on your shoulders?

Head_The_Ball

Strider590 wrote: »

Along those lines, BMW / Audi drivers have worked out that if they tailgate the car in front of them as they exit the speed check zone, the front facing cameras can't see their number plate.

Isn't that normal for BMW and Audi drivers at all times anyway?



I drive a BMW.

warehouse

ThinkingOutLoud wrote: »

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

People working at motorway roadworks? Let me know where, that'll be the first time I've seen it.

How long have those roadworks on the M3 been there?

ThinkingOutLoud_2

warehouse wrote: »

People working at motorway roadworks? Let me know where, that'll be the first time I've seen it.

How long have those roadworks on the M3 been there?

Bit of an old line ... perhaps they choose not work when you are driving for a reason.

Some must be out there though, as there have been a fair number killed while working on the roads?

Or perhaps (to quote an old joke recycled) you should have gone to Spe.....savers.