Speed Camera Jammers Being Sold As A Way To Outsmart Cops
Everybody that drives knows that sticking to the speed limit isn’t an easy task. Constantly checking your speed while also being aware of any speed changes around you is difficult, which results in a large portion of drivers constantly driving above the limit. For example, a study conducted by researchers from Purdue University in Indiana found that 36% say there’s no harm in driving 20 mph above the limit, 43% saw no risk going 10 mph over, and 21% are fine going 5 mph over.
Well, for the speed freaks out there who don’t want to obey the road rules, speed camera jammers are available – but you we don’t recommend getting one. Road safety campaigners in the UK have called for the government to ban the sale of laser jammers that stop speed cameras catching people going over the limit. The jammers are available on various online websites including Amazon and eBay, and are even being sold as a way to “outwit” the police.
It isn’t against the law for people to sell these lasers, as they also work as parking devices, but it is illegal for motorists to use them to prevent police using their LIDAR to obtain a vehicle’s speed. A laser diffuser is available on eBay for $415, and is being promoted as being able to “fire back the same frequency and pulse rate thereby confusing the mobile laser speed camera equipment… effectively preventing it from taking a speed reading of your vehicle.”
Just last week, 67-year-old business man Thomas Hill was jailed for eight months and banned from driving for 12 months after he was caught using a jammer in his Land Rover, convicted of “preventing the course of justice.”
