Advice please re Road GPS speed detectors

[cagey]

Have seen there is to be a change in the law re speed detectors.
Can anyone advise which detector is best, covering all detection systems.
Gps type route finding would be a bonus, but secondary to being aware of speed traps.
Thanks
Keith

 

[BrendanS]

Which change? Most road gps route guides have provision for speed camera alerts based on position.

 

[cagey]

Concerned about mobile vans so need mobile phone link to update pos.

 

[BrendanS]

No system will give you real time updates on mobiles, just alerts that mobiles are regularly there, possibly. Most systems just give alerts on known static devices. If you want real time updating, then you are living in fantasy land

 

[cagey]

OK just testing my knowledge of what is available. Given that fantasy land is the best what is available to advise me of speed traps.
Please suggest manufacturers and suppliers
Thanks

 

[BrendanS]

What do you want? Specify in detail, and we can tell you what is available that meets your requirements, and what is fantasy.

 

[cagey]

Oh Brendan
My Request is simple and doesn't need a semantic type interrogation.
As I have said before I admire your advice but this time it is simple I just want to know what products are available to protect my licence, so that I can buy one before they are unavailable due to to them becoming illegal.
No disrespect but just a simple answer please.

To everyone else " Dont speed is not an intelligent answer"

 

[BrendanS]

The advice is simple. There is no product that will do what you want.

If you want warning of static devices, that is available

If you want warning of mobile devices that may or may not be there, that is available

If you want warning of mobile devices that move around randomly, there is no device on the market that will warn you, unless you want to go down route of trying to detect lasers etc, which don't work especially well.

You still haven't said what the change in law is that you mentioned?

 

[tangofour]

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You still haven't said what the change in law is that you mentioned?

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Camera radar detectors are to be made illegal.
£1000 fine and 3 pts for using one, £5000 for installing one.

Talk about a police state!

 

[orizaba]

i find my inforad works well at sea as a gps,not detected many speed cameras of cape bon tho,perhaps i'm lucky

 

[Stocky_Helm]

how much faster than the speed limit do you want to travel? could you trade in the car/motor bike for a microlight.

 

[fireball]

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what products are available to protect my licence,

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the brake pedal

a new pair of glasses (to see the fecking speed limits)

2 new wheels and a bit of alloy tubing .... to make a bicycle ... !!

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[PeteCooper]

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To everyone else " Dont speed is not an intelligent answer"

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Why is it not an intelligent answer? You don't want to get done for speeding therefore don't do it. I don't want to get done for a whole load of crimes, so I don't do them. It's not complicated.

 

[tillergirl]

Re: Advice please re Road GPS speed detectors

Well said!

 

[bendyone]

To answer the question, dont know of any law change but I use a Talex basic GPS mode fixed camera warning device. It cheap £65 and £24 a year to update. and it works for me. Will warn of fixed cameras, average speed cameras and possible mobile locations.
Its better than the road angel I used to have.

 

[[23929]]

Any gps unit is good if you remember to update it. I believe a warning sign is needed, so, mobile cameras cannot just be anywhere - this seems to be how my gps unit warns of mobile vans, it knows where the signs are.

Sounds daft but the big benefit to me is the detector tells me the speed limit where the camera is, which is not always obvious, especially on unknown roads. Of course if a speed limit sign was placed before the camera, it would be useful......

 

[jimbaerselman]

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what products are available to protect my licence,

[/ QUOTE ] Your feet and your speedometer.

 

[CPD]

I am a satisfied user of a tomtom one system that updates via pc as often as you wish.

 

[landaftaf]

I reckon my road angel is brilliant ......... but I suppose it depends what model you had

my blackspot tells me where fixed cameras are, blackspots (which are the spots mobile detector are placed randomly), average speed etc .......
it has detected mobile laser and / or radar 'safety cameras' before I noticed them ..........
I update it weekly and have full confidence in it to warn me about 'danger' areas

it has paid for itself more than once over /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

brilliant safety device

 

[peterg]

The only recent 'change in the law' regarding camera detectors that I can recall is the one making radar detectors and laser jammers illegal and that's been on the cards for ages...

GPS based black spot/speed camera warning systems (Road Angel etc) are not currently illegal in the UK and as far as I know aren't going to be.

If you have a satnav system such as TomTom (other makes are available /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif)then you can add a downloadable speed camera database to them as 'points of interest', if you don't then one of the best GPS based camera locator is the Road Angel - they do an RA Compact which we have that is excellent anf clearly shows what the limit is as you approach a camera site is case, as in may areas, the limit is not always immediately obvious /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

RA Compact £149.99 here