Gatso spotters on new cars
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Just read this on BMW Car Forum - Taken from Auto Express.
Gatso Spotters For New Cars
peed camera detectors will be fitted as standard to new cars, Auto Express can exclusively reveal. And the first units could be in place within a year.
Road Angel MD Dave Clark claims his company is working closely with a manufacturer to add trap-spotting technology as standard equipment. He said: "I can't tell you which maker we're liaising with yet, but by the beginning of next year, our detectors will be fitted to cars in showrooms, I am sure of that."
The firm's units are already sold via the dealer networks of many car companies, so standard fitment is the next step. "This means customers will be able to specify our product alongside sat-nav and air-con," he added. "And who wouldn't choose to save their licence?"
A spokesman for Snooper safety alert systems, whose detectors are approved by BMW and Fiat, was not surprised at the development. He said: "It's probably a good thing, and this is where we see the market going at the moment."
However, Kevin Delaney of the RAC Foundation aired a note of caution. "We would have no objection to these units being fitted in principle," he stated. "But in a number of European countries it's illegal not only to use a detector, but even to have one installed."
Delaney also warned that the Government has held consultations on the prospect of banning camera detectors, a fact which a spokesman for the Association of Chief Police Officers' Road Policing Secretariat confirmed.
The spokesman said: "There's a recommendation that something needs to be done, but creating the primary legislation a ban would require is difficult." Ross Pinnock
Gatso Spotters For New Cars
peed camera detectors will be fitted as standard to new cars, Auto Express can exclusively reveal. And the first units could be in place within a year.
Road Angel MD Dave Clark claims his company is working closely with a manufacturer to add trap-spotting technology as standard equipment. He said: "I can't tell you which maker we're liaising with yet, but by the beginning of next year, our detectors will be fitted to cars in showrooms, I am sure of that."
The firm's units are already sold via the dealer networks of many car companies, so standard fitment is the next step. "This means customers will be able to specify our product alongside sat-nav and air-con," he added. "And who wouldn't choose to save their licence?"
A spokesman for Snooper safety alert systems, whose detectors are approved by BMW and Fiat, was not surprised at the development. He said: "It's probably a good thing, and this is where we see the market going at the moment."
However, Kevin Delaney of the RAC Foundation aired a note of caution. "We would have no objection to these units being fitted in principle," he stated. "But in a number of European countries it's illegal not only to use a detector, but even to have one installed."
Delaney also warned that the Government has held consultations on the prospect of banning camera detectors, a fact which a spokesman for the Association of Chief Police Officers' Road Policing Secretariat confirmed.
The spokesman said: "There's a recommendation that something needs to be done, but creating the primary legislation a ban would require is difficult." Ross Pinnock
Cars are being fitted with GPS-based SatNav as optional, or even standard, equipment these days.
Surely the next logical step is to have a camera detector module added to this.
They'd have a hard job banning that - the download of waypoint data that happens to correspond to camera locations.
Surely the next logical step is to have a camera detector module added to this.
They'd have a hard job banning that - the download of waypoint data that happens to correspond to camera locations.
JonRB said:
They'd have a hard job banning that - the download of waypoint data that happens to correspond to camera locations.
Or as they're also known - accident hotspots...
Be a bit tricky to ban something that would be overtly warning you of an accident hotspot, wouldn't it, because you'd naturally want to take extra care in these areas that are so obviously prone to higher accident rates?
After all, the cameras are supposedly sited in accident hotspots...
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Chaps - i think care should be taken when considering standard fit detectors/GPS tracking etc. It will merely spur on the speed camera manufacturers to move the game on and develop devices like the 'Camera in Cateye' that I saw a while ago. And presumably, the Govt might start thinking that information on camera locations should be outside the public domain, so that the GPS trackers will not have the data on which to alert us of their presence. J.
Dibble said:
JonRB said:
They'd have a hard job banning that - the download of waypoint data that happens to correspond to camera locations.
Or as they're also known - accident hotspots...
Be a bit tricky to ban something that would be overtly warning you of an accident hotspot, wouldn't it, because you'd naturally want to take extra care in these areas that are so obviously prone to higher accident rates?
After all, the cameras are supposedly sited in accident hotspots...
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They managed to prosecute a bloke for warning of 'an accident hotspot'.. cos he was 'obstructing the police in their duty of revenue collection.... ahem
whats the difference when its a device fitted to your car thats warning you??
>> Edited by r32 on Friday 18th June 11:10
r32 said:
They managed to prosecute a bloke for warning of 'an accident hotspot'.. cos he was 'obstructing the police in their duty of revenue collection.... ahem
whats the difference when its a device fitted to your car thats warning you??
>> Edited by r32 on Friday 18th June 11:10
You can't give a machine points and a fine?
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