Overview
- Brazil’s lower-house Transport Committee approved a substitute to PL 4751/24 and sent it to the Constitution and Justice Commission, the next step before any full Chamber and Senate votes.
- The text bars speed checks that are hidden or camouflaged, covering both fixed installations and portable devices, and it requires clear placement and advance signs for drivers.
- On multi-lane roads, fixed radars must show a passing vehicle’s speed on an electronic panel, and every installation needs a technical study posted online with exact locations and the date of the last Inmetro accuracy check.
- Portable units must keep minimum gaps from fixed cameras of 500 meters in cities and 2 kilometers on highways to prevent clustered enforcement points.
- The bill allows a narrow exception for high-risk highway spots where fixed signs cannot go if the traffic authority files a technical justification, and it could void fines from gear that is hidden or poorly signed, a shift pushed as pro-education in a landscape that includes 962 fixed radars in São Paulo and 28,300 speed cases recorded by the Federal Highway Police during the Tiradentes holiday.