speed camera detectors

WhiteHorse

I bought one some years ago and it's paid for itself many times over.

Let's cut to the chase. The vast majority of these cameras have nothing to do with road safety. They are just revenue raising devices.

Councils and police forces were relatively uninterested in them until things changed and they were allowed to keep the money. Which says it all really.

mikey72

Have a look at

http://www.radardetectors.co.uk/

I don't know if they work particuarly well, the laser speed cameras only fire the laser when they measure you, so it's a bit late then. I liked the look of the micro fusion.
(the jammers make an interesting read though)

flimsier

I have never been caught by a speed camera and do not understand how people don't see them!

vikingaero

Plenty of laser jammers are legal as their primary purpose can be for opening electric gates, electric garage doors or for parking sensors. More and more new cars are being fitted with adaptive cruise control which on some cars combine laser and radar and can confuse some laser cameras.

WhiteHorse

daveyjp wrote: »

Anything which detects radar etc is illegal.

Detectors are legal in the UK. What is illegal is any device that actively or passively interferes with the radar or laser beam.

There is no specific law which says so however. What the government did was to bring a test case using another unrelated law which they then bent hopelessly out of shape to cover it.

tomstickland

The first line of defence is observation and cunning. Choose your locations to "reinterpret" the limits carefully. Fixed cameras are easy to spot. Camera vans are usually easy to find. Unmarked patrol cars are less easy.

Let someone else go a bit faster than you - try to merge into the general flow. Stick to limits where it's sensible - urban areas or high risk rurual roads.

As to "don't speed". That would be alright if limits hadn't been revised downwards pretty much everywhere by people not qualified to do so.

WhiteHorse

mikey72 wrote: »

I liked the look of the micro fusion.

I have a Microfusion and it's good.

tomstickland

flimsier wrote: »

I have never been caught by a speed camera and do not understand how people don't see them!

Sometimes they park up against walls, in leafy driveways or behind signs. You've just been lucky.

Kilty_2

I've been looking at the Novus Piccolo for a while now - can be had for less on eBay than in the likes of Halfords.

Tiny unit which could be hardwired and would only need removing for updating - free updates for life....

WhiteHorse

vikingaero wrote: »

Its very easy for someone who does not drive professionally to carp on about speeding. I defy the amateur keyboard warriors to drive ... [etc].

Quite.

And that's before the greedy local council gets up to its tricks. I'm put in mind of one stretch of busy road where the council changed the limit between 30 and 40 every few hundred yards. At every change there was a camera.

As the Americans say, go figure ...