Speed camera/trap detector

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Sat 3 Apr 2010 15:04
Speed camera/trap detector - bintang

Can anyone recommend a detector please? Ideally, it should be settable to different limits and sound/flash when these are exceeded. It should update itself automaticaly and without a subscription.

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Sat 3 Apr 2010 15:12
Speed camera/trap detector - safedriver

I use a pair of Mark I eyballs;-)

They are always on, detect every speed limit and all static and mobile cameras, and even prevent me getting caught by average speed cameras.

They came with the rest of the body, and were completely free. There is no subscription, but as part of a regular maintenance programme have been updated three times with auxiliary lenses. Touch wood, they are still going strong.

You have to be careful where you get them, though, as my bro-in-law's appear to be faulty. He has just copped his second speeding ticket in two months!

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Sat 3 Apr 2010 16:46
Speed camera/trap detector - bathtub tom

You're in good company safedriver.

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Sun 4 Apr 2010 13:54
Speed camera/trap detector - scotty

I use a Novus Rider, which I'm happy with.

Free updates, speed display, it knows the limits, etc.

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Mon 5 Apr 2010 12:04
Speed camera/trap detector - bintang

I use a Novus Rider, which I'm happy with.

Free updates, speed display, it knows the limits, etc.

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Mon 5 Apr 2010 12:05
Speed camera/trap detector - bintang

I use a Novus Rider, which I'm happy with.

Free updates, speed display, it knows the limits, etc.

Thank you for an informed reply.

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Mon 5 Apr 2010 21:15
Speed camera/trap detector - safedriver

Stay safe.

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Thu 8 Apr 2010 14:35
Speed camera/trap detector - Dynamic Dave

I use an Inforad. Once bought, you get a free lifetime subscription to the camera database.

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Thu 8 Apr 2010 23:16
Speed camera/trap detector - smilleynially

Why not just stick to the speed limits? I'm pretty sure they're there for a reason.

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Thu 8 Apr 2010 23:39
Speed camera/trap detector - Pete Mansell

The original poster said he wanted a detector, which indicated limits and gave a warning if exceeded, to enable him to keep within the limit.

Do you really always know 100% what the speed limit is when driving on strange roads, when there are many missing repeater signs and limit signs hidden by vegetation etc>?

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Fri 9 Apr 2010 07:53
Speed camera/trap detector - oilrag

Do you really always know 100% what the speed limit is when driving on strange roads, when there are many missing repeater signs and limit signs hidden by vegetation etc>?

Exactly. As I`ve said before - there is a 40mph limit on a wide road not a million miles from here where local residents campaigned for a 30mph limit a few decades back.

They failed. But then 40mph repeater signs were ripped of in the night and newcomers to the area tend to think it`s 30mph. (It was in the local press 20 or 30 yra ago)

It`s still the case, all these years later, that you can drive for a mile and not see a repeater sign. I think the LA just gave up on the signs.

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Fri 9 Apr 2010 09:49
Speed camera/trap detector - bintang

This is the main potential problem for me. I was convicted for speeding (45 in a 30 limit) when driving at night along an unfamiliar straight road, wooded, no driveways, with no repeaters and no obvious reason for a limit. Still, that was my only speeding conviction, in 59 years of driving, and it happened about 25 years ago.

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Fri 9 Apr 2010 09:50
Speed camera/trap detector - Westpig

I'm pretty sure they're there for a reason.

Speed limits have increasingly become subject to 'nanny stateism' i.e. they have been set lower and lower, often by unelected bureaucrats.

For example, a 20mph limit, past a school, when the kids are in any way likely to be about, so say between 0730 and 0915 and 1515 and 1645 on a school day....yep, good idea...but, at 0530 on the way to work on a nice bright summers morning in August i.e in the school holidays...then it is painfully slow to drive at that pace and of course wholly unnecessary.

Limits need to be set sensibly, so that the majority will adhere to them...if not they will be treated with contempt...and often are.

Why else is most of the motorway in the o/s lane at 80mph (plus) on a friday night out of town?

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Fri 9 Apr 2010 11:44
Speed camera/trap detector - Dynamic Dave

Why not just stick to the speed limits? I'm pretty sure they're there for a reason.

Ah, the same old comments still keep getting posted on here ;o)

FYI, I use mine to inform me of accident blackspots. Well that's what we're told to believe by the people who decide where to site the gatso's, truvelo's, and the like.

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