Speed camera warning device?

[Busterboo]

For several years, I used an INFORAD K1 speed camera warning device. It was cheap, cheerful, easy to up-date, wireless, plugged into the cigarette lighter socket, worked well in a 911 and, although quite primitive, saved my bacon several times. Eventually, it died and I didn't replace it when I bought the E89.

Is there something with similar qualities on the market now, please?

 

[Deepseaskateboard]

For several years, I used an INFORAD K1 speed camera warning device. It was cheap, cheerful, easy to up-date, wireless, plugged into the cigarette lighter socket, worked well in a 911 and, although quite primitive, saved my bacon several times. Eventually, it died and I didn't replace it when I bought the E89.

Is there something with similar qualities on the market now, please?

Does it detect hidden ones?
Mobile vans etc?

Apple and Google maps have all of the fixed locations on.

 

[Busterboo]

Does it detect hidden ones?
Mobile vans etc?
Apple and Google maps have all of the fixed locations on.

Yes, the INFORAD does mobile and fixed.

 

[buzyg]

For several years, I used an INFORAD K1 speed camera warning device. It was cheap, cheerful, easy to up-date, wireless, plugged into the cigarette lighter socket, worked well in a 911 and, although quite primitive, saved my bacon several times. Eventually, it died and I didn't replace it when I bought the E89.

Is there something with similar qualities on the market now, please?

Ever thought of just sticking below the speed limit.





Na me neither. :wink:

 

[firebobby]

We need more speed camera vans, and heavier fines/bans for speeding.

 

[pvr]

CarPlay with Waze

 

[Ole gits rule]

I agree regards camera / fines more are needed, however its the stupid stuff the planners put-on the roads - I have a 0.5 mile stretch or road which is 40 a the start, then 50, then back to 40 and literally 100 yards after that 30 - why not just replace the 40 with a 30.

The traffic camera vans always wait at the end of that bit of road.

 

[MerBrook]

I use an Aguri DX2000 which is a combined dashcam and speed camera warning device.
It gives you warnings for Laser, radar, red light cameras mobile van positions, hadecs and average speed cameras. It comes with a lifetime of free updates available through their app.
Previously I used the Aguri GTX80 pro which is the same as above but without the dashcam but this device can only be updated with a pc and not a Mac and it can no longer be updated using an app due too android and apple both wanting large fees, apparently.

 

[Chippie]

I’ve recently got the Radarbot app on my iPhone, only tried it once and it seems to work well, it has all the fixed cameras and you can select for the mobile one’s that have been reported and which speed limits.

 

[mcbutler]

CarPlay with Waze

Top post, excellent app and all free

 

[mcbutler]

In Plymouth we have the dubious 'honour' of hosting the uk's most advanced average speed camera network installed on a half mile stretch of road.
It not only nicks you for speeding but records all your trips and your driving style over time, then if one day you are weaving around it can ping you as drunk/drugged etc!
This stuff is going way too far nowadays, its not aimed at road safety its just revenue...
The new mobile cameras can get you from 2km away if they can find a straight enough stretch of road......

 

[Scubaregs]

I use an Aguri DX2000 which is a combined dashcam and speed camera warning device.
It gives you warnings for Laser, radar, red light cameras mobile van positions, hadecs and average speed cameras. It comes with a lifetime of free updates available through their app.
Previously I used the Aguri GTX80 pro which is the same as above but without the dashcam but this device can only be updated with a pc and not a Mac and it can no longer be updated using an app due too android and apple both wanting large fees, apparently.

Have one of these too and tbh not convinced by it. Never once, and it happens often, when I get a K-Band or laser alert have I seen any sign of police or camera van.

 

[buzyg]

In Plymouth we have the dubious 'honour' of hosting the uk's most advanced average speed camera network installed on a half mile stretch of road.
It not only nicks you for speeding but records all your trips and your driving style over time, then if one day you are weaving around it can ping you as drunk/drugged etc!
This stuff is going way too far nowadays, its not aimed at road safety its just revenue...
The new mobile cameras can get you from 2km away if they can find a straight enough stretch of road......

Which stretch of road?

 

[MerBrook]

I use an Aguri DX2000 which is a combined dashcam and speed camera warning device.
It gives you warnings for Laser, radar, red light cameras mobile van positions, hadecs and average speed cameras. It comes with a lifetime of free updates available through their app.
Previously I used the Aguri GTX80 pro which is the same as above but without the dashcam but this device can only be updated with a pc and not a Mac and it can no longer be updated using an app due too android and apple both wanting large fees, apparently.

Have one of these too and tbh not convinced by it. Never once, and it happens often, when I get a K-Band or laser alert have I seen any sign of police or camera van.

I also find that you get some false alerts but mine has saved me on two or three occasions now. Once coming back from Scotland on the M6 in Cumbria, with this one Waze showed the cop cars location but couldn’t tell you it was using radar, the detector did. And a couple of times on the M40 with laser. Both the laser alerts were near junctions, which I always slow down for but the other cars around me at the time carried on past above the speed limit, so I guess I was picking up the laser “scatter”.
Due to the extensive range of the police cameras they can be along way out of your view but still get you.

 

[Busterboo]

For several years, I used an INFORAD K1 speed camera warning device. It was cheap, cheerful, easy to up-date, wireless, plugged into the cigarette lighter socket, worked well in a 911 and, although quite primitive, saved my bacon several times. Eventually, it died and I didn't replace it when I bought the E89.

Is there something with similar qualities on the market now, please?

Ever thought of just sticking below the speed limit.





Na me neither. :wink:

I have, touch wood, a clean licence, but have attended 3 'speed awareness workshops', each time for exceeding a 30mph limit.

In another thread I suggested creating 'The 36mph club' - 30+10%+2+1 being the speed at which the limit is broken and a fine issued - because I suspect it's where most 'normal' drivers break the law.

In my experience - and this explains my use of a speed camera detector - much urban and suburban traffic often flows at more than 30mph and it's there that I want to protect myself from a ticket.

 

[r2uzenblot]

It's not just about speeding. How many times have you travelled along a road e.g. the A5 from Cannock, and every half a mile or so the speed limit changes. It drives me crazy when roads change limits so frequently and until my G29, that tells me on the heads up display, I regularly got stuck wondering whether it was a 30 or 40 or whatever limit.

Finally agree that we should all stick to speed limits but have you ever seen a Hyundai (ex Rover owners) driver driving at anything than 40 MPH regardless of the speed limit? :lol:

 

[SV8Predator]

have attended 3 'speed awareness workshops',

They didn't work then!

urban and suburban traffic often flows at more than 30mph and it's there that I want to protect myself from a ticket.

Can't you obey the speed limit yourself though? And not worry what everyone else is doing?

 

[mcbutler]

In Plymouth we have the dubious 'honour' of hosting the uk's most advanced average speed camera network installed on a half mile stretch of road.
It not only nicks you for speeding but records all your trips and your driving style over time, then if one day you are weaving around it can ping you as drunk/drugged etc!
This stuff is going way too far nowadays, its not aimed at road safety its just revenue...
The new mobile cameras can get you from 2km away if they can find a straight enough stretch of road......

Which stretch of road?

Gdynia way Buzyg - you a local ??

 

[buzyg]

In Plymouth we have the dubious 'honour' of hosting the uk's most advanced average speed camera network installed on a half mile stretch of road.
It not only nicks you for speeding but records all your trips and your driving style over time, then if one day you are weaving around it can ping you as drunk/drugged etc!
This stuff is going way too far nowadays, its not aimed at road safety its just revenue...
The new mobile cameras can get you from 2km away if they can find a straight enough stretch of road......

Which stretch of road?

Gdynia way Buzyg - you a local ??

Ok thought that was probably the bit you meant. That has been there ages, as long as it's not some new bit I have missed. Retired now, so I don't drive through town as much as I did when I was in the Yard. :wink:

 

[Ole gits rule]

For several years, I used an INFORAD K1 speed camera warning device. It was cheap, cheerful, easy to up-date, wireless, plugged into the cigarette lighter socket, worked well in a 911 and, although quite primitive, saved my bacon several times. Eventually, it died and I didn't replace it when I bought the E89.

Is there something with similar qualities on the market now, please?

Ever thought of just sticking below the speed limit.





Na me neither. :wink:

I have, touch wood, a clean licence, but have attended 3 'speed awareness workshops', each time for exceeding a 30mph limit.

In another thread I suggested creating 'The 36mph club' - 30+10%+2+1 being the speed at which the limit is broken and a fine issued - because I suspect it's where most 'normal' drivers break the law.

In my experience - and this explains my use of a speed camera detector - much urban and suburban traffic often flows at more than 30mph and it's there that I want to protect myself from a ticket.

Got done twice at just over 30, one fine paid one speed awareness course taken - waste of time IMHO for people just over the limit