A satnav that calculates average speed between cameras?

[sunnydude]

poing said:

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

Its not discontinued; https://www.roadangelgroup.com/shop/road-angel-gem... and https://www.roadangelgroup.com/shop/road-angel-gem...

And it does. If you go into an average zone and drive past the first camera (which it alerts you of) it will start measuring your average speed. Once you go past the 2nd one, it will tell you your average for the last stretch, if i remember correctly.

[Craikeybaby]

It shows your current average since passing each camera in a zone, so as soon as you pass camera #1 it will start calculating your average speed, until you pass camera #2, when it will reset and start calculating your average speed again. And so on until the last camera in the zone. It works really well.

[Roundm]

Road angel Gem is not pocketGPS database - it's live and updateable by the users (so warns not just of mobile camera locations, but can also warn that they are live!) The average speed stuff works well - resetting past each camera

get one, well worth the safety warning for potential blackspots

[dxg]

Tomtom does it (or at least the app on android does), but the specs zone needs to be in its database, you can't tell it to start calculating the average - it has to know to do it.

[GC8]

poing said:

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.

You can drive through at 56mph without issue, which will see you sailing past all of the other traffic. Or it would, if they weren't all blocking the outer lanes doing 44mph and refusing to yield.

[RJD223]

My TomTom 610 does it

[shaunroche]

MDMA . said:

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

It'a alright saying that but they've put average speed camaeras on the A54 out of Buxton....any decent driver will be itching to give that awesome road a blast so that kind of device would be useful I think.

It's annoying to think though that the only reason they've done that is the amount of organ donors (Bikers) that kept getting killed/injured there, therby ruining it for the car drivers!

[Craikeybaby]

My Pogo Alert works a treat up there, in my MX-5 I could enjoy the road, and was able to keep under 50mph between the cameras due to the lower speeds through corners.