The DGT trick to avoid braking in front of a radar and then accelerating

All drivers have done it: slow down the moment they see the radar warning and speed up again once the checkpoint has been passed. The DGT knows this and wants to end this habit.

To this end, the General Directorate of Traffic is working on a new type of radar that would ‘hunt’ cars that carry out this practice, always with the aim of reducing traffic accidents as a result of speeding.

These are the cascading radars that have been launched in areas such as Navarre, where provincial police assure they are also being used as an awareness measure to end the typical braking and subsequent acceleration at the sight of an approaching radar.

This type of cascade measuring device consists of placing a radar
a few meters after the landline that it has been warned by the signal, so its main purpose is to fine those cars that accelerate as soon as they pass the first radar.

These radars, the DGT explains, can be fixed or mobile and are an effective way to end this practice. However, at the moment they are not implemented on the vast majority of Spanish roads.

Speeding fines range from 100 to 600 euros and can lead to the loss of up to six points on the driver’s license.

Source: La Verdad

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