The private mobile speed camerasalso called private radar cars, is the government’s new weapon for tracking down our smallest speeders. Soon to be more than 450 on the roads France, most of which are driven by private sector workers and are very difficult to distinguish because they have the shape of completely normal cars like the Peugeot 308 or the Renault Mégane, vehicles that we often see on the road.

Circulating conspicuously among other vehicles on the road, these radar cars are the next generation automatically report speeding vehicles passing by or crossing them day or night. As it is impossible to know where they are, unlike stationary cameras, many motorists are trapped!

Private mobile speed cameras: a growing business

As you might imagine, private mobile speed cameras a real goose that lays golden eggs for the state, which does not hide this, since these cars must adhere to the quota of kilometers to be covered, thus guaranteeing their performance. It’s here Delegation on road safety (DSR), which is responsible for collecting operational statistics for these next-generation radars, but these numbers are not usually released to the public.

But a few weeks ago DSR published in error on its website a file containing valuable information about private mobile speed cameras: last year there were 381 radar machine in circulation, including 223 managed by private agents, no less than 39 departments french

Private mobile speed cameras: 6.6 million tickets

In general, in 2022 there would be no less than 6.6 million offenses recorded by these private mobile radars, meaning around 18,000 motorists fall into the trap every day without their knowledge. And, as you can imagine, they are not dangerous speeders, as the vast majority of such offenses are slight speedingis fixed in zones with restrictions of 70, 80 and 90 km/h, where motorists are more likely to make mistakes.

Remember that speeding by less than 20 km/h will deduct one point from your driving license and a fixed fine of €68… Which corresponds to a pleasant turnover of 448.8 million euros for private mobile speed cameras for 2022 only! Juicy financial profit, which the state is unlikely to deprive itself of a business that seems particularly profitable.

Private mobile radars: how to recognize them?

Even if they are difficult to recognize on the road, then private mobile speed cameras have several features that distinguish them from other vehicles: their front registration plates are not homologated and are accompanied by an infrared flash, there are three cameras that pass through the windshield at the front, and an infrared sensor is present on the rear window.

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