Best speed camera detector 2021

Best speed camera detector 2021

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FrauPorker

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12 posts

153 months

Monday 9th August 2021
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Ive just got pinged by a mobile unit doing 37 in a 30. Thankfully I think they will offer an online speed awareness. Anyhow its prompted me to look again for a speed camera detector. I had looked at a Road Angel but there are some poor reviews on Trust Pilot. Same for Waze. Just wondering if anyone had one that they rated. Thanks

Johnnytheboy

24,498 posts

193 months

Monday 9th August 2021
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IBT "Mark 1 Eyeball" comments.

Lee540

1,586 posts

151 months

Monday 9th August 2021
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Just drive at the speed limit. You have speedo in your car.

I've been caught twice in 2021, so this is what I'm doing now. Not even chancing 10%

oyster

12,864 posts

255 months

Monday 9th August 2021
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FrauPorker said:
Ive just got pinged by a mobile unit doing 37 in a 30. Thankfully I think they will offer an online speed awareness. Anyhow its prompted me to look again for a speed camera detector. I had looked at a Road Angel but there are some poor reviews on Trust Pilot. Same for Waze. Just wondering if anyone had one that they rated. Thanks
So a built up area?

If it was 69 in a clear-sighted NSL I think you’d have more sympathy.

But you want to find a way to continue to drive over the limit in villages and towns, without being man enough to deal with the consequences of getting caught?

FrauPorker

Original Poster:

12 posts

153 months

Monday 9th August 2021
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oyster said:
FrauPorker said:
Ive just got pinged by a mobile unit doing 37 in a 30. Thankfully I think they will offer an online speed awareness. Anyhow its prompted me to look again for a speed camera detector. I had looked at a Road Angel but there are some poor reviews on Trust Pilot. Same for Waze. Just wondering if anyone had one that they rated. Thanks
So a built up area?

If it was 69 in a clear-sighted NSL I think you’d have more sympathy.

But you want to find a way to continue to drive over the limit in villages and towns, without being man enough to deal with the consequences of getting caught?
Im not looking for sympathy & I am woman enough to deal with the consequences thanks.

giantdefy

691 posts

120 months

Monday 9th August 2021
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Waze and Mk.1 Eyeball works for me, so far 45 years with no convictions (touch wood)

oyster

12,864 posts

255 months

Monday 9th August 2021
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FrauPorker said:
oyster said:
FrauPorker said:
Ive just got pinged by a mobile unit doing 37 in a 30. Thankfully I think they will offer an online speed awareness. Anyhow its prompted me to look again for a speed camera detector. I had looked at a Road Angel but there are some poor reviews on Trust Pilot. Same for Waze. Just wondering if anyone had one that they rated. Thanks
So a built up area?

If it was 69 in a clear-sighted NSL I think you’d have more sympathy.

But you want to find a way to continue to drive over the limit in villages and towns, without being man enough to deal with the consequences of getting caught?
Im not looking for sympathy & I am woman enough to deal with the consequences thanks.
Yes the username should have told me!!
In any case, avoiding detection is not dealing with consequences.

bolidemichael

15,139 posts

208 months

Monday 9th August 2021
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The OP may as well have posted "I've been caught speeding, please patronise me".

I use Waze, OP.

craig511

430 posts

117 months

Tuesday 10th August 2021
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Waze

Johnnytheboy

24,498 posts

193 months

Tuesday 10th August 2021
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Johnnytheboy said:
IBT "Mark 1 Eyeball" comments.
giantdefy said:
Waze and Mk.1 Eyeball works for me, so far 45 years with no convictions (touch wood)
rofl

R0G

4,998 posts

162 months

Tuesday 10th August 2021
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I am thinking that any driver who needs a detector is either deliberately wanting to break the law or needs more training in order to drive correctly .....

FrauPorker

Original Poster:

12 posts

153 months

Tuesday 10th August 2021
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bolidemichael said:
The OP may as well have posted "I've been caught speeding, please patronise me".

I use Waze, OP.
Yeah I was thinking that. Thanks for your comment

Far Cough

2,330 posts

175 months

Tuesday 10th August 2021
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Johnnytheboy said:
rofl
As night follows day ....... Haha

julian64

14,317 posts

261 months

Tuesday 10th August 2021
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Try to ignore the idiots. Pistonheads is not what is used to be.

Each one of the idiots saying stay within the speed limits will probably exceed that on their way home this evening at some point without even noticing, but seem to get some sort of pleasure jumping on threads like this

I use waze on long journeys, but for short ones I simply use my car cam. It wasn't too expensive. It looks front and rear, and it has a speed camera database on it with a verbal warning of the correct speed to be travelling. It updates from my phone. Its also got lane departure warning in it.
Honestly worth the investment

Radar detectors, even the really expensive ones are pretty rubbish unfortunately

croyde

23,939 posts

237 months

Tuesday 10th August 2021
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It wasn't until my girlfriend, who is currently learning to drive, said that the 20mph signs are too small and many times are hard to spot, that I realised that I now completely rely on Waze to know the speed limit in built up areas.

They are small. Why are they nowhere near as big as the 30mph signs?

I did a long walk within Richmond borough yesterday and did notice that the 20s don't have their own dedicated pole. They are just strapped to any available street furniture.

Probably explains why everyone sticks resolutely to 20, even on the odd 30mph roads.

Very frustrating.

Riley Blue

21,634 posts

233 months

Tuesday 10th August 2021
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Waze works for me too though there's a relatively new, free TomTom app called Amigo that I've installed but not tried yet.

bad company

19,482 posts

273 months

Tuesday 10th August 2021
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R0G said:
I am thinking that any driver who needs a detector is either deliberately wanting to break the law or needs more training in order to drive correctly .....
FFS this is a motoring forum not mumsnet, have you never broken a speed limit?

As others have said Waze works very well op. Hope you get offered a course rather than points.

HantsRat

2,382 posts

115 months

Tuesday 10th August 2021
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Laser Detector: Pointless as a laser speed device will calculate your speed in under a second
Radar Detector: Pointless as the vast vast majority of Police mobile speed devices are Lidar (Laser)
Laser Jammer: This will work but expect jail time.
Waze App: Best solution as speed locations are reported by the community. You only really run a risk if you're the first Waze user to drive past the enforcement location.
Cheapest/Easiest: Read the road signs and stick to the limit

Captain Answer

1,361 posts

194 months

Tuesday 10th August 2021
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croyde said:
It wasn't until my girlfriend, who is currently learning to drive, said that the 20mph signs are too small and many times are hard to spot, that I realised that I now completely rely on Waze to know the speed limit in built up areas.

They are small. Why are they nowhere near as big as the 30mph signs?

I did a long walk within Richmond borough yesterday and did notice that the 20s don't have their own dedicated pole. They are just strapped to any available street furniture.

Probably explains why everyone sticks resolutely to 20, even on the odd 30mph roads.

Very frustrating.
The repeaters are always smaller, the main signage entering a 20 will be the standard big size always

Dave Hedgehog

14,686 posts

211 months

Tuesday 10th August 2021
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Johnnytheboy said:
IBT "Mark 1 Eyeball" comments.
i hope they have a permanent 1000 yard stare

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-9...