A satnav that calculates average speed between cameras?

[CoolHands]

The initial message was deleted from this topic on 04 May 2016 at 21:36

[giantdefy]

I know it will be unpopular but sticking to the limit works

[MDMA .]

Why not just stick to the speed limit on any given road ?

[paranoid airbag]

giantdefy said:

I know it will be unpopular but sticking to the limit works

Great, unless you're beside another car doing about 50, with cars behind you, in the outside lane.

It actually sounds like a very useful idea IMO, allowing you to maintain traffic flow whilst keeping to the spirit of the law

[Equus]

As above.

And if you lack sufficient control over your right foot, get a car with cruise control or an adjustable speed limiter.

[poing]

I like to push my luck with these and the entire time I'd love to know what my average is. I use the trip meter and reset it at each one but it's tedious and I sometimes forget. So far I've been brave enough to average an indicated 4mph over the limit on a section but I suspect it's still comfortably under if using a sat nav or sat app of some sort, it's not like trip computers are known for being accurate.

I was thinking it can't be that hard to make, the cameras are fixed so program them in and it gives red, amber, green to indicate your status. The speed can be in the middle but the colour would make it easy to glance at.

[Equus]

paranoid airbag said:

Great, unless you're beside another car doing about 50, with cars behind you, in the outside lane.

In which case you're either:
a) not getting in their way, or;
b) doing them a good turn by saving them from getting a ticket.

[2gins]

Tomtom Start seems to know where long term road works are e.g. most of the M1 and gives you an average speed from the start of the section, with a red/amber warning. But it doesn't do cam to cam. And it doesn't recognise the intermittent NSL sections between different phases of works, so you can get up to 80 again but when you slow for the next average 50 set, the satnav average doesn't reset and will be high.

[Actual]

The free TomTom Speed Cameras app on Android (I don't know if available on iPhone) has regular speed camera alerts and indicates average speed through average speed camera sections with the average taken progressively over the whole of the section.

The app works full screen and shows speed limit, actual GPS speed and average speed or it can float as a small window over the top of another app such as Google Maps and it then shows the speed limit and actual GPS speed normally or average speed in average speed camera areas. Notifications are also audible.

The actual GPS speed is useful as setting the cruise control to an indicated 55 mph causes the GPS speed to indicate only 52 which should be a good margin for average speed camera sections.

I rate this app very highly as it works with Google Maps and it has all fixed speed camera locations I have ever (knowingly) encountered although there are a few false positives and as expected there are an irritatingly high number of warnings on the M25 variable speed sections.

[Zedboy1200]

Road Angel Gem. £150. Job done

[Craikeybaby]

Zedboy1200 said:

Road Angel Gem. £150. Job done

^
What he said.

[poing]

Except that it seems to have been discontinued and doesn't mention anything about average speed between the cameras.

[Opel-GT]

My old TOM TOM live 105 does this.

[Flooble]

RAC05 also does this.

[Craikeybaby]

poing said:

Except that it seems to have been discontinued and doesn't mention anything about average speed between the cameras.

Road Angel seem to be listing it on their website. I've just tested the average speed between cameras on mine too. Average speed resets at each camera.

[GC8]

Equus said:

In which case you're either:
a) not getting in their way, or;
b) doing them a good turn by saving them from getting a ticket.

Don't cry like a little girl when you get tailgated by an HGV.

[chr15b]

Flooble said:

RAC05 also does this.

Have been looking at these, they any good?

And is the speed camera element a paid subscription?

[CoolHands]

I was asking as I was thinking of making an app to do this. But I'll probably never do it so...

[Flooble]

chr15b said:

Have been looking at these, they any good?

And is the speed camera element a paid subscription?

It's okay, although mine seems to have decided to require unplugging and replugging to start. Think I have pressed something in a menu somewhere.

Speed Camera warnings are a bit rubbish though I have to say. Decades ago I had an Origin Blue-i which would announce the speed; this one just flashes it on screen and makes a bonging noise. Again, I may have not got a setting right somewhere.

Subscription, I think it's Pocketgpsworld's database.

[cv100]

poing said:

Except that it seems to have been discontinued and doesn't mention anything about average speed between the cameras.

The 'Road Angel Gem' was discontinued, but 'Road Angel Gem+' is still available. Exactly the same unit, just updated software etc. and it does monitor average speed between the cameras.