What speed camera detector do you use?

[faa77]

What speed camera detectors do people use and how do you rate them? These seem to be the most-common:

Free apps (I have Android):

-Waze
-Tom Tom speed camera app

I'm a little cautious of using free apps- you usually get what you pay for.

and I am currently looking at two dedicated boxes:

-Snooper My-Speed XL
-Cheetah C550

The Road Angel one has a lower average review on Amazon and is expensive, so might give that a miss?

Apparently the Snooper doesn't notify of average speed cameras.

I don't have a SatNav, so if there's a SatNav which has awesome detection too and I might as well buy it all in one, please do recommend.

I'd like to detect as many as possible:fixed, average, mobile etc.

(I'm not wanting one to speed, just it's very easy with a heavy foot to exceed)

Edited by faa77 on Wednesday 16th October 19:38

[agtlaw]

1. TomTom Go (iOS)
2. Waze (iOS)

[BertBert]

To be clear, do you mean 'detector'? Waze is crowd sourced, not detected.
Bert

[spookly]

BertBert said:

To be clear, do you mean 'detector'? Waze is crowd sourced, not detected.
Bert

Waze does have all of the fixed cameras though, crowd sources or not.

Laser detectors don't really work, radar detectors are useless. Just use Waze, you could spend loads of money and still not get as good a warning as you get with Waze.

I drove fairly quickly today over about 120 mile round trip on the motorway. I had warnings for every fixed camera, and for every marked police car I passed.

[faa77]

BertBert said:

To be clear, do you mean 'detector'? Waze is crowd sourced, not detected.
Bert

This is what i'm not sure about.

I'd like to be notified of all fixed (obviously) and then all mobile zones (regardless of whether a camera has been reported there today) and average.

The emphasis being i don't want to rely on people reporting they have seen a camera. Mobile cameras can only be placed in certain zones anyway, so might as well just be warned when entering a zone.

[lost in espace]

I have a Snooper, free updates and goes off a lot. After I went through a camera at 60 in a 50 limit I don't want to be caught again and would rather have false warnings it goes crazy when you go near police stations.

[Squadrone Rosso]

The Cyclops paid for Smartphone App is very good. The only downside is it isn’t Apple CarPlay or Android Auto compliant.

[thebraketester]

I use my eyes and common sense.

[faa77]

spookly said:

I had warnings for every fixed camera, and for every marked police car I passed.

How can Waze detect marked police cars?

[Zarco]

Spidey sense.

[Hackney]

Used a Road Angel ages ago then Tom Tom Go app as they used the Road Angel database.
Until they didn't

Since gone back to a Road Angel and can't fault the warnings or database.
Only issue I have is adding locations myself as it's so rare I do it and it's not intuitive... more about my memory than the unit I guess.

I see they've just used a Road Angel with built in camera which seems a bit odd as I I have the road angel on the dash pointing slightly at me in the driver's seat so a camera would be pointing left 30 degrees or so, not straight ahead.

[Durzel]

faa77 said:

spookly said:

I had warnings for every fixed camera, and for every marked police car I passed.

How can Waze detect marked police cars?

I'm guessing he means marked cars that are parked in laybys and on bridges ready to roll on to the motorway, which people will flag on the app, rather than cars that are actually driving down the carriageway.

[BIRMA]

Hackney said:

Used a Road Angel ages ago then Tom Tom Go app as they used the Road Angel database.
Until they didn't

Since gone back to a Road Angel and can't fault the warnings or database.
Only issue I have is adding locations myself as it's so rare I do it and it's not intuitive... more about my memory than the unit I guess.

I see they've just used a Road Angel with built in camera which seems a bit odd as I I have the road angel on the dash pointing slightly at me in the driver's seat so a camera would be pointing left 30 degrees or so, not straight ahead.

Me too, bought my first Road Angel in 2006 and have never regretted it. The new Pure is okay and works for me as I can't get on with phone based systems.
Over this time the Road Angel has saved my licence more times than I can remember, not because I drive like a lunatic but because when driving in an area you didn't know it picked out the sneaky devils.

[Kev_Mk3]

Waze & Specsavers (They provide my glasses)

[akabob]

Have u not tried waze with blueye.

[littleredrooster]

akabob said:

Have u not tried waze with blueye.

Never heard of Target Blue Eye until now, but I would point out a couple of things with it:

1. It will pick up not only Police, Ambo & Fire, but also Highways England and their ISU sub-contractors who now use Airwave. Ergo - hundreds of false alarms.
2. Airwave is being replaced shortly with a completely different system, so your £900 investment may not be useful for very much longer.

[faa77]

Okay so I have been using Tomtom this week. The only criticism I have is it doesn't alert me to mobile camera zones.

You can't just stick a mobile speed camera anywhere. They have specific zones which are marked with signs.

I was hoping Tomtom would recognise these, but it doesn't.

I understand Waze relies 100% on community input, no databse?

[agtlaw]

Do you have a subscription to TomTom ‘Speed Cameras / Danger Zones?’

Mine shows mobile units and allows reporting (very similar to Waze). It also often asks - “is the camera still there? Yes/No’

[Chris32345]

Since when do mobile speed cameras have zones they have to be in?

[faa77]

Chris32345 said:

Since when do mobile speed cameras have zones they have to be in?

I can't speak for your area, but we have roads with no fixed cameras, but camera signs. Mobile cameras are operated within these zones.

I'm aware if you're caught by a mobile speed camera and there were no signs, it doesn't get you off, but I was under the impression mobile speed cameras are only operated in these zones.

Edited by faa77 on Tuesday 22 October 18:16