Traffic Enforcement Camera - Avoidance/evasion

Avoidance/evasion

To avoid detection or prosecution drivers may:

• Drive at or below the legal speed
• Brake just before a camera in order to travel past its sensor below the speed limit. This is however a cause of collisions.
• Use GPS navigation devices which contain databases of known camera locations to alert them in advance. These databases may in some cases be updated in near-realtime. The use of GPS devices to locate speed cameras is illegal in some jurisdictions such as France. In Australia, the use of GPS devices within the category of intelligent speed adaptation are being encouraged.
• Install passive laser detectors or radar detectors that detect when the vehicle's speed is being monitored and warn the driver. Use of these devices may be illegal in some jurisdictions such as France.
• Install active laser jammer or radar jammer devices which actively transmit signals that interfere with the measuring device. These devices are illegal in many jurisdictions.
• Remove, falsify, obscure or modify vehicle license plate. Tampering with number plates is illegal in many jurisdictions.
• Vandalize the camera. This is illegal in all jurisdictions.

In August 2010 a fast driving Swedish driver reportedly avoided several older model speed cameras, but was detected by a new model, as traveling at 186 mph (300 km/h), resulting in the world's second largest speeding fine to date. In the past it was possible to avoid detection by changing lanes when SPECS average speed cameras were in use as they measured a vehicle's speed over distance in one lane only. As of 2011 the cameras are type approved to cover multiple lanes.