best speed camera detector?

DUTR

Alanp said:

I had a speed detector...perfect if the vans were located behind supermarket automatic doors it went crazy, but not a peep if you went by a camera van
save your money and drive more carefully 

Yeah but which one? It is true some of the earlier ones were activated by pelican crossings and door controllers, and as said earlier it depends why one gets and uses a unit.
If they get one in the belief it will avoid detection and speed between every gantry, then they will be disappointed, if it helps them to be more vigilant to the posted speed limits (especially in unfamiliar territory) then all is good.

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It's legal to buy/sell laser jammers as well but using them gets you sent to jail

Fixed place cameras are often on car GPS devices, but mobile vans, as said above, you won't get enough warning before you're caught, your only hope is something like Waze and hope they're reported. Safer as everyone else has said to simply not speed.

kangoora

My advice, reasonably unfounded but semi-supported by this article https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-news/96663/the-top-10-cars-most-likely-to-speed.

Don't buy a german car

I regularly sit at 80 on dual-carriageways/motorways (73-75 on my GPS) and when I can be bothered, I mentally count the types of cars overtaking me so they're the ones doing 85+. The vast majority seem to be german cars, often 60% or over. Either the car (or their owners) must think they're back on the autobahn

facade

The gps locations are the best, although there is no guarantee that the camera is on.

The French Police will throw you in the Bastile for 1000 years if you have speed camera alerts on your gps, and I'd imagine it would be the first thing they'd check on a UK registered car too.

Jonesya

Try running Waze on your in-car system, or on your mobile in a suitable car holder, its free, it uses the GPS to measure your speed and uses its database of speed road limits to alert you with a bong when you go over the speed limit, giving you a heads-up to reduce your speed, so you don't go speeding in the first place. It also gives you alerts when entering speed camera areas.

oscarward

I use an inforad gps  gadget that has a database of known camera locations and dings at you if you enter cameras zone above the limit. Updates are free and can include known mobile Van locations, which is a bit hit and miss as there are so many of them. It also can’t help with variable speed limits.
i tend to use it where I am driving in an area I don’t know to avoid being caught out by sudden limit changes when I am trying to navigate to my destination and watch for traffic on unfamiliar roads.

I also had a laser detector but soon stopped as it reacted to so many other things.

Car_54

oscarward said:

i tend to use it where I am driving in an area I don’t know to avoid being caught out by sudden limit changes when I am trying to navigate to my destination and watch for traffic on unfamiliar roads.

Limit changes are not "sudden". If you can't simultaneously navigate, watch for traffic and react to signs perhaps you shouldn't be driving.

AdrianC

I'm wondering how watching for traffic on unfamiliar roads differs from watching for it on familiar ones.

Signage tends to be static. If you're looking for signs to navigate by, ones with speed limit information tend to be just as visible.

Alanp

DUTR said:

Alanp said:

I had a speed detector...perfect if the vans were located behind supermarket automatic doors it went crazy, but not a peep if you went by a camera van
save your money and drive more carefully 

Yeah but which one? It is true some of the earlier ones were activated by pelican crossings and door controllers, and as said earlier it depends why one gets and uses a unit.
If they get one in the belief it will avoid detection and speed between every gantry, then they will be disappointed, if it helps them to be more vigilant to the posted speed limits (especially in unfamiliar territory) then all is good.

Mine was an Aguri skyway pro, bought it to alert me of any camera vans but it randomly went off in the middle of nowhere and when passing garage forecourts, it was more frustrating to use than it was useful, I still have it somewhere 

JustAnotherSaver

AdrianC said:

I break the speed limit regularly.
Mostly, it's a perfectly deliberate act, a decision taken in full awareness of the situation and risks around me.
Sometimes, it's simply down to my brain being in neutral, and driving on mental autopilot.

Three guesses which of those a camera detector helps with...

All of them.

I had a device which alerted me to speed cameras. I can't remember what it was now. Might've even been a sat nav app on my phone. Whatever it was, when i was approaching a speed camera it would give off a ding-ding-ding noise.

Not so bad if i'm driving where i drive every day as i know where the speed cameras are (aside from when the vultures are parked in lay bys) but when i'm driving areas i'm not so familiar with they were a great help. Ding-ding-ding, oh hang on there must be a camera about i haven't spotted, let me check my speed. Speed checked & now time to ease off.

I drive to the conditions of the road. There's a spot round here that was 50mph for as long as i can remember. 20, 30 years plus. Then they decided to drop it to 40mph. Probably because some fool stepped out in front of a car when there's a crossing a bit further down which was too much effort for them to walk to. I still do 50-55 there in a morning because there's sod all on the road when i pass at that time. Do i do it at night when there's much more traffic? No. Do i do 100mph on the motorway when travelling at 10pm at night and i don't see another car about for as much as i can see? Sometimes. Would i do it when there's plenty of cars about? No. All this members pretending they stick exactly to the limit thing is a load of nonsense. Very very very few people do that.