Talex Lite Speed Cam Detector £59.99 in Aldi - Hurry!!

sco0ter

Kremmen wrote: »

So with all the malarky and the above email about the M25 cameras..........

I updated my Talex yesterday (Sunday) with the latest download from Talex (not Novus), drove to work this morning along the M25, junctions 15 to 11, and not a single camera warning !!!!!!!!!!

Maybe its only for the BTST Locator and not Talex.... Depends who he's making the money from

talexuser

Kremmen wrote: »

So with all the malarky and the above email about the M25 cameras..........

I updated my Talex yesterday (Sunday) with the latest download from Talex (not Novus), drove to work this morning along the M25, junctions 15 to 11, and not a single camera warning !!!!!!!!!!

wonderful, send out a mail boasting about his "inside information" that has been available on the net for several weeks before, then gives an update after the "inside info" has become active, and does not include it in the data. Way to go bliar.... :rotfl:

Kremmen_2

Also not a single warning in the other direction last night J11 to J15.

sco0ter

I have a few bad experiences with the "UPDATED" database... I now get a warning of a speed cam in a car park and also now a mobile camera site has been extended to over 2 miles. My Talex also will not warn of 3 cameras when I turn onto the street and within 500 metres and it still hangs the device if I do it at my hospital one. None of these problems were there with the very last Talex Update in November and are also not present in the Novus database.

mathsForFun

I updated my Talex Lite on Sunday using the old (Talex) software, and it updated the version from 70{something} to 80{something}. In Birmingham, Talex had just updated most of the cameras before they went bust. The new cameras that were in there before are still in there - but the very latest camera, which I think was installed just before Talex went bust in November, isn't in there. On the middle ring-road going clockwise, just by St Andrews (Bham City Football Club), there are two cameras in quick succession. At this time, Talex is only aware of the first of them.

The only reason I bought the Talex was for its high-quality database. At this time, this does not exist. Someone should tell Adam Blair that he only has a short period of time to raise the quality of his database to a high standard. If he fails to do so quickly, he will lose his customer base - and, with the pocketgps alternative becoming well-known, he won't find it as easy to get the customer base back as Talex probably found it to build the customer-base in the first place - at a time when the only competition in the same price bracket was the rubbish (in terms of database quality) on offer from Road Angel and Snooper.

talexuser

the latest blair product is here:
http://www.talex.co.uk/LaserDetector

£147 or special offer of £79 for talex users...

the promised "seamlessly integrate" with your talex... appears to be nothing more than sharing the 12V plug!!

It will be interesting to see reviews and comment.

anewman

Thought laser detectors were illegal. Looks like Mr Blair is sending his newly acquired business to the gutters.

Looks expensive for a tiny bit of electronics too.

talexuser

they are not illegal yet, but they will be this year when the new traffic act becomes law. Thus he is introducing a product he knows will soon be illegal to use, let alone telling different stories on the pages for his detector and database type products.
In any case laser detectors are all but useless since by the time you have been warned by the device a reading has already been made and you are stuffed!

tahrey

talexuser wrote: »

In any case laser detectors are all but useless since by the time you have been warned by the device a reading has already been made and you are stuffed!

If you're quick, and they have trouble locking on, you may get a couple seconds grace with which to scrub off speed to inside the 10% +2 guidelines ... or if you were planning on/already accelerating towards inadvisable speeds you can lay off.

Worst case scenario, you notice the warning, throw out the anchors but have already been zapped - you know there's a mobile site there and won't go so fast along that stretch in future, meaning you don't end up as another embarrassing "caught 5 times in the same week by the same camera and lost their license" statistic. And may even make a contribution to road safety, though I'm not sure I've yet heard of a mobile camera actually being sited in a blackspot... more a way of dealing with officers who would otherwise be sat idle around the station, waiting for a riot to break out somewhere.

Personal responsibility doesn't seem to count for a lot these days, unfortunately. They'd rather just beat you into mindlessly obeying arbitary rules by making the punishments for transgressing them disproportionate, unavoidable and inflexible.
If this satellite tracking malarkey ever gets off the ground (heaven forbid - but it would be one of the few successful british space ventures i suppose) that's going to be a major bugbear... how do you effectively administer speeding tickets when people may be breaking the limit 10 or 20 times in a single commute, in order to grab gaps (or safely skip thru ones on a roundabout), bypass a line of traffic, keep up with everyone else, make up lost time between queues, get thru changing lights, etc? I'd absolutely love for it to backfire on them and we end up with a country where there's only a couple of hundred thousand legally registered drivers left, all of them an even mix of slower-but-safe people who stay just below the limit, and heinously unsafe really slow drivers who are typically those who don't seem to have a clue what's going on around them at any given time.

Also, this sounds like me making a special expenditure sometime soon to get hold of one of these valuable items before it's statutorially disallowed to purchase them.
Would you be legally required to destroy them or hand them in, or is it still allowed to OWN the items without using them?

talexuser

tahrey wrote: »

If you're quick, and they have trouble locking on, you may get a couple seconds grace with which to scrub off speed to inside the 10% +2 guidelines ... or if you were planning on/already accelerating towards inadvisable speeds you can lay off.

I'll let the experts on GPS world take over on laser detectors

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Once you are in the sights of a laser, the operator presses the trigger and the speed is recorded instantly. It takes less than a second to appear on the display and its all over.

We have tested laser detectors before and invariably any warning you get is way to late to be of any use unless you are lucky to get a detection from scatter off another targeted vehicle. I was involved in some tests with an LTi 20-20 gun and in every test the target vehicles speed had been recorded before the laser detector had alarmed and it only alarmed half the time anyway.