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best speed camera detector?

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  • 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.
    So you drive almost twice a the speed limit because you think your experience trumps the law?  DO you have some kind of sixth sense?  
  • AdrianC
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    50-55 in a 40 isn't "nearly twice the limit".
    100 on a motorway isn't "nearly twice the limit".
  • I drive to the conditions of the road.
    No you don't.

    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.
    If you are not familiar with the area in which you are driving, how can you be driving to the conditions of that road if you have no idea what may be just ahead and if you need a detector to warn you of a camera that you've not spotted, what about any potential hazards that you may also not have spotted?
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    I drive to the conditions of the road.
    No you don't.

    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.
    If you are not familiar with the area in which you are driving, how can you be driving to the conditions of that road if you have no idea what may be just ahead and if you need a detector to warn you of a camera that you've not spotted, what about any potential hazards that you may also not have spotted?
    Whether you know the road or not is irrelevant. You drive to the hazards you can see.

    Sure, you know that there's no junctions or entrances around that bend you know well... but is there a cyclist? A sack of anvils in the middle of the road?
  • Scrapit
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    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.
    So you drive almost twice a the speed limit because you think your experience trumps the law?  DO you have some kind of sixth sense?  
    He has clearly stated what speeds he drives, how is that not clear? 
  • bigadaj
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    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.
    That's all fine just don't whinge if and when you get caught.
  • AdrianC said:
    Whether you know the road or not is irrelevant. You drive to the hazards you can see.

    Sure, you know that there's no junctions or entrances around that bend you know well... but is there a cyclist? A sack of anvils in the middle of the road?
    Which is basically what I stated.
    If you are not familiar with the area in which you are driving, how can you be driving to the conditions of that road if you have no idea what may be just ahead and if you need a detector to warn you of a camera that you've not spotted, what about any potential hazards that you may also not have spotted?
    If you have no idea what may be ahead (and this not knowing could be because of a bend, another vehicle blocking your view, weather conditions etc), you drive accordingly.
  • The "holier than thou" mob are out in force, I see.
    Je suis sabot...
  • Scrapit
    Scrapit Posts: 2,304 Forumite
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    The "holier than thou" mob are out in force, I see.
    Only cos the "been told twice but still aint listening" mob invited them out.
  • AdrianC
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    AdrianC said:
    Whether you know the road or not is irrelevant. You drive to the hazards you can see.

    Sure, you know that there's no junctions or entrances around that bend you know well... but is there a cyclist? A sack of anvils in the middle of the road?
    Which is basically what I stated.
    If you are not familiar with the area in which you are driving, how can you be driving to the conditions of that road if you have no idea what may be just ahead and if you need a detector to warn you of a camera that you've not spotted, what about any potential hazards that you may also not have spotted?
    If you have no idea what may be ahead (and this not knowing could be because of a bend, another vehicle blocking your view, weather conditions etc), you drive accordingly.
    Indeed.

    And where visibility allows, it may well be that an appropriate speed for the conditions does not stop at a purely-paperwork upper limit.

    If 50mph was perfectly safe and appropriate on a stretch of road one week, why does simply changing the signs change the visibility and road conditions the next?
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