A classic speed camera measures your speed at one point. An average speed camera — also called section control or point-to-point control — records your number plate when you enter a section and again when you leave it. Distance divided by time gives your average speed. If it is above the limit, you are fined, even if you were under the limit at both cameras.
Why it changes how you drive
At a fixed camera, the risk is a short moment. In a section, the risk lasts for kilometres: a fast stretch in the middle can push your average over the limit, and braking hard at the exit does not repair it. The only thing that works is knowing your average while you drive.
Average speed control in the UAE
Sharjah Traffic Police announced upgraded radars that detect drivers speeding between two cameras, aimed at high-risk stretches. Dubai tested point-to-point cameras earlier; road-safety experts have repeatedly called for them on the Dubai–Abu Dhabi highway. Ghost’s camera database includes average-speed zones where they are known.
How Ghost handles a zone
- A warning before the zone begins — 700 m and again at 250 m, like a fixed camera.
- Inside the zone, your live average on screen, green while it is within the limit, red when it is not.
- How far is left until the zone ends.
