Does anyone use speed camera detectors anymore?
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Staying away fro the usual sanctimonious rubbish about speeding etc -
I use an app called AMIGO on my phone - very useful as it also displays your average speed in an average speed zone. May be android only, but free and very accurate. Runs as an independent mini app as an overlay on google/waze so can still use your favourite mapping app.
Had several Road angels over the years - stopped using them 7 years ago when their customer service and general service went down the toilet. Think they were being acquired at the time.
I use an app called AMIGO on my phone - very useful as it also displays your average speed in an average speed zone. May be android only, but free and very accurate. Runs as an independent mini app as an overlay on google/waze so can still use your favourite mapping app.
Had several Road angels over the years - stopped using them 7 years ago when their customer service and general service went down the toilet. Think they were being acquired at the time.
Can I re-open this and ask if anyone has a radar signal detector that will pick up mobile police vans and act as a reminder? I have Waze, which is great, but don’t have 100% confidence it spots everything, and it alerts to dummy cameras (if that’s what they are!) and those that are switched off.
I have an Aguri Skyway, but what you're asking for is a little mixed up. Camera vans work on laser not radar. By the time the detector records a laser hit it would highly likely be too late, I rarely get a hit from a laser and have never had a hit from any scatter when it's pointed elsewhere. Powerful IR lights pointed at it can cause some interesting laser false alarms, there's an interesting part of the M5 near the M42 junction where that happens.
It does detect RF from those fixed cameras that work on radar, and thus can tell which are active or not (most often gatsos).
Tbh I really only use Waze, it does rely on someone reporting a mobile camera but given the number of users/volume of traffic on the roads, I'd say it covers most circumstances.
Unless I've missed something, I don't think Waze can audibly alert you to a camera when you approach it and when you're under the speed limit...which I usually am !!
It does detect RF from those fixed cameras that work on radar, and thus can tell which are active or not (most often gatsos).
Tbh I really only use Waze, it does rely on someone reporting a mobile camera but given the number of users/volume of traffic on the roads, I'd say it covers most circumstances.
Unless I've missed something, I don't think Waze can audibly alert you to a camera when you approach it and when you're under the speed limit...which I usually am !!
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