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Speed camera detectors

Running a small fleet of cars I tend to have sleepless nights about the encroachment of speed cameras and have resisted spending £300 or so on the legal GPS speed camera locators.

But !!!!

I've just found this one which I've tried in my car for the last week and found to be 100% succesful.

At £80 its a no-frills 100% legal GPS locator which warns you when you are approaching a known camera location - so far it knows all of the ones that I am aware of and you can download the data at any time or upload new locations to their database.


PS - I'm not connected with their company in any way - just a satisfied customer !

Comments

  • servalan1
    servalan1 Posts: 43 Forumite
    i got one of these but found that i lost the satalites around liverpool and it took a good 30 miles or so to get them back . in that time i could have gone through lots of speed zones . it worked excerlent in my local area but in the end took it back as i do a lot of travelling
  • is the beltronics 990 speed detecor any good :o
  • andy88_2
    andy88_2 Posts: 3,676 Forumite
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    It can't tell you where the Police cars are though. Observing the speed limit any good as an idea?
  • Kitch_2
    Kitch_2 Posts: 5 Forumite
    andy88 wrote:
    It can't tell you where the Police cars are though. Observing the speed limit any good as an idea?


    Quite good as a vague theory, not so good in practice.

    When you run (as I do) a small fleet of service engineers who are at the beck and call of a large supermarket doing callouts to any part of the mainland UK, then you soon realise that urban speed limits are often set at the whim of the local authority.

    Yes we all know the rule of thumb that lamp posts equals 30mph, and that local authorities don't have to display 30mph signs, but it doesn't always work that way does it ? I can take you to several places in my locality where the speed limits defy this logic, I can take you to one place where the speed limit actually increases from 30 to 40 within 100 yards of a 2000 pupil high school - no I can't explain that either.


    Until local authorities get their collective acts together and provide adequate road speed signage then in excess of one million motorists every year will continue to be convicted, fined and possibly penalised by higher insurance premiums, and the majority of these (normally) law abiding citizens will not have set out to deliberately break the law that day - its very easy to do.

    Unlike radar detectors, GPS locators are not illegal and in a recent statement this was confirmed by the Dept of Transport who went further to say that they made a positive contribution to road safety by being a constant reminder to motorists what the local speed limit was - many of these GPS locators will scream at you when you are exceeding the limit, almost as effective as a wife.

    It won't be long until they are fitted as a standard.
  • paulie558
    paulie558 Posts: 763 Forumite
    andy88 wrote:
    It can't tell you where the Police cars are though. Observing the speed limit any good as an idea?
    Take a trip around the byways of Suffolk,with mind numbing stretches of road at 30miles an hour in open countryside.
    I challenge you to keep to the speed limit.
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