Not sure which show that might have been, but Mythbusters tried finding what speed the camera would fail to ID your car at. Let's just say there's no factory-made street-legal car capable of escaping the camera flash. They had to try a jet-powered drag car to beat it (though something less spectacular but just as fast might have worked as well).

The idea that you can escape the camera by driving faster though it is completely erroneous, and judging by how fast you'd have to be driving to pull it off, it would be extremely dangerous and practically impossible to do on a residential thoroughfare. Take into account time to accel and traffic density et al, and it's just not going to happen. Mythbusters couldn't do it driving 130+ through one, and even someone in a McLaren F1 isn't going to pull it off.

 

Neither did I suggest him to do so nor said it was a good idea period.

 

No, no, I did stop and look at the incoming cars, it was empty, so I proceeded. Just as I proceeded to turn, "FLASH"! And there's no "no turning on red" sign at that place.

 

I'm not calling you on the carpet, I'm agreeing with you.

 

I would think you'd be in the clear. I wouldn't worry about it until you get the ticket in the mail.

 

Top Gear's done it.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ph-qv4gYAE8

 

From what I hear in the UK they have to take two pictures of your plate, so the way Top Gear did it was by driving so fast that the second picture didn't catch the car, so no ticket. In the USA they only need one picture, on MythBusters they only way they were ablet to get it to not take a picture was to go over 200+ MPH in a jet powered dragster, in that case the camera didn't even try taking a picture.

 

Sweet Jesus, what sick, demented country do you all live in? We've got some cameras going up here in S FL, but I've never had a ticket from one (knocking wood...) and I don't know anyone that's gotten one...

So can all those cops freed up by technology go and, like, solve some murders or bring in a few pederasts? Didn't think so...

 

Well, yes TopGear did it to Britain's laws and setup...but not to ours, as others have already noted. As the Mythbusters proved (or seemed to prove anyhow) anything so small as a medium-sized bird can set the camera off. Additionally, they employed a Murchy to do the high-speed test. They didn't get up to 176 like TG did, but

Come to Arizona and you're likely to find out fast just how many cameras there are around here. I'd guess only London and D.C. are more heavily policed in this regard.

 

I know a few years back in Japan you could beat the express way speed cameras by going 170 kph (about 108 mph) ...There was an article written about the Signal Skyline and it talked a bit about it.

But that was back in 2002 I believe... I haven't heard anything about being able to "outrun" the cameras used in the US or any more recently articles of Japan's cameras... so I'm not gonna try it, but if you do and get away with it, please post