In Victoria, mobile speed cameras (and handheld laser) can nab you from several hundred metres away; think 300–400 m as a routine working distance, and up to around 1 km in ideal conditions.
Vehicle-mounted radar units can track approaching or receding traffic over similarly long ranges, but operators usually take readings when line-of-sight is clean and identification is crystal clear.
Range drops with traffic, rain, heat shimmer, and angles—physics is petty like that—so the practical capture window is often inside 50–400 m.
Don’t bank on “tolerance”; it exists, but it’s not a coupon code, and enforcement in VIC is designed to work anywhere the sign says it should.
Short version: if you can see them, they can probably see (and clock) you well before you’ve blinked at the speedo. Consult official documentation for exact figures.
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