Speed traps and speed tickets can be quite annoying but is there any "best solution" to avoid one? Of course, speeding is dangerous! But sometimes a situation may force you to over speed like taking your wife for the delivery of the baby or taking someone critically ill or hurt to the hospital. So, how do you avoid a speeding ticket yet get your task completed on time?



To know the options, you first need to understand the options and information available to you. Let's start by knowing the type of cameras being used in the UK for catching speeding motorists. There are 4 types of cameras being used in the UK as of now and they are:

?Gatso: are fixed cameras that use radar technology on every passing vehicle. The beam from the camera will hit your vehicle and return back to the Gatso equipment thus providing your vehicles exact speed at the point. All Gatso cameras shoot the vehicle from the rear.

?LTI 20/20: a favorite camera of the UK Cops, especially the mobile units. These cameras have been designed in such a way that they can be hand held as well as stand mounted (most common). Usually these cameras will take the front shot of your car although they can be reversed to take the rear view shot as well.

?Truvelo: uses the loops on the road to determine the speed of a vehicle. If you are driving your vehicle too fast over these loops then the camera will automatically get triggered and take the front shot of your car.

?Specs: is a "new generation" camera that can easily take images of any vehicle that passes from point 'a' to point 'b'. The distance between the points can be several hundred metres. The image of your car will be taken at point 'a' and 'b' after it measures the vehicle average speed between both the points. These photographs will have a date and time as well. These days more Specs cameras are being installed and used across the UK.

The Specs system was enforced because people on the roads were getting smarter and would often slow down near the camera points and speed off after the camera points. But the Specs cameras have a flaw as well. The camera measures the speed of a vehicle between point 'a' and point 'b', which is calculated as the average speed. Only if your vehicles average speed is over the speed limit will you get a speeding ticket. Now the flaw, according to Home Office, is that if you changed your lane somewhere between point 'a' and point 'b' then your earlier average speed will not be valid. The only valid speed will be the speed of your vehicle between point 'a' and point 'b' in the same lane.

So the best option you have to avoid speeding tickets is to jump or hop lanes! Of course, remember that you need to drive safe because there is someone waiting for you at home!