Folk ways to avoid fines: dangerous and harmless

You can avoid a fine for violating traffic rules in legal and illegal ways. What methods do drivers use and how successful are they at “cheating the system”?

Thanks to dashing drivers and photo and video cameras, in 2014 the Russian budget was replenished by billions of rubles. In Moscow and the region alone, where more than a thousand traffic cameras are installed, it was possible to collect fines for 1.1 billion rubles. Do you know who is “at risk” more often than other motorists?

Most violators exceed the speed limit not much - by 20-40 km/h. Each of these hurrying to work or to the family receives a fine of 500 rubles. The amount is small, but several such violations may occur in a month, and then the loss for the family wallet will become tangible.

Serious violations, according to statistics, are 10 times less. Everyone who is caught exceeding the speed limit by 40-60 km/h owes the state from 1,000 to 1,500 rubles. Reckless drivers who exceed the speed limit by 60-80 km / h risk losing 2000-2500 rubles or being left without a license for up to six months. If the excess is 80 km / h or more, the driver will say goodbye to 5,000 rubles or he will be deprived of his license for 6 months.

Unlucky drivers are also fined for driving into a public transit lane or driving a truck through streets where it is illegal. In large cities, large sums are collected from violators of parking rules. However, the most profitable violation for the traffic police is non-compliance with the speed limit. To avoid ruinous fines, motorists use all sorts of tricks.

For example, many drivers partially hide the numbers of their cars: they stick a piece of paper, cover it with dirt - in general, they do everything so that the camera cannot read numbers and letters. However, such “vandalism” has been severely punished since 2014. If the driver is convicted of damaging his own number, he faces a fine of 5,000 rubles or deprivation of rights for 1-3 months.

The same punishment awaits those drivers who clean off the paint from the numbers with emery or other sharp objects. Excuses that the paint was erased by itself and by accident, “will not work” - the law is harsh in relation to such cases. By the way, there will be practically no benefit from such sabotage: one of the most common video recording systems, Strelka, can recognize a number plate even by the bulge of letters and numbers.

They also offer to make the number invisible to cameras with the help of a special “nanofilm”. This sticker for numbers works on the principle of a reflector: when the camera takes a photo, the sealed number is indistinguishable. The Internet is teeming with websites selling these tapes. And, as usual, most of the offers are fraud and fake (there are many cases when drivers paid 3,000 rubles for cellophane numbers).

In fact, this method works only in the case of the old model of CRIS video recording complexes. And the ubiquitous "Arrow" is no longer bought into such a trick. The complex will not only impose a fine on the driver, but also enter his number into the database of poorly readable numbers, and there it is not far from a fine of 5,000 rubles or deprivation of rights for 3 months.

A more technologically advanced way to avoid a ruinous meeting with traffic cameras is to use the help of a video recorder, which warns in advance about approaching photo and video recording facilities. The most “advanced” registrar in this regard on the Russian market is the domestic Datakam G5. Devices of this series are able to warn not only about traffic cameras, but also about dangerous sections of the road, speed bumps and other important objects. In the memory of Datakam G5, there is immediately a database of coordinates of cameras installed not only in Russia, but also in the CIS countries, Europe, America and even Japan - about 30 countries in total. New information on camera databases appears about once a month, so the recorder always has up-to-date data. In addition, the user can download user databases from the Internet and upload them to his Datakam.

The built-in GPS / GLONASS module monitors the coordinates of the car's movement and warns the driver about approaching the cameras one and a half kilometers away. Depending on the situation, Datakam G5 gives the right advice: slow down or change lanes.

All notifications can be configured so that the registrar does not distract unnecessarily. And in order not to compromise yourself in the event of a stop by a traffic police officer, you can remove speed data from the video.

Datakam G5 was developed in the Russian research and production association "KB Datakam" (Moscow). In Moscow, on the Dmitrovsky highway, devices are also being assembled. The latest model of the brand - G5 - combines as many as 22 unique Russian engineering know-how.

For example, ultra-high video quality (bitrate 20 Mbps versus a maximum of 15 Mbps for any other recorders), a unique mount on neodymium magnets (installation and removal in a second, with two fingers of one hand), simultaneous support for two memory cards, spy shooting mode , password-encrypted recordings and a unique blend filter that removes glare and light from the windshield from the frame.

At the same time, only high-quality materials and the most modern components are used in the premium domestic registrar. The device turned out to be so successful that in Internet reviews it has already been nicknamed "an iPhone among registrars." One of these reviews can be read here, and here https://vimeo.com/123308015 - see an example video. In general, Datakam G5 is a high-tech assistant, it not only saves time and does not get caught in violation, but also records very high-quality video.

However, the only true advice for all drivers who do not want to receive fines is simply not to violate traffic rules. It's quieter, safer, and more economical. And no registrars needed!