Speed cameras and speeding vans etc
Speed cameras and speeding vans etc
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HandyAndy1234

Original Poster:

15 posts

200 months

Tuesday 29th June 2021
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What's the best app to use to stop getting caught?
I have WAZE and Radar-bot anything better for a mobile phone? paid or free

Narcisus

9,087 posts

310 months

Tuesday 29th June 2021
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HandyAndy1234 said:
What's the best app to use to stop getting caught?
I have WAZE and Radar-bot anything better for a mobile phone? paid or free
hehe

Sebring440

3,236 posts

126 months

Tuesday 29th June 2021
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HandyAndy1234 said:
What's the best app to use to stop getting caught?
I have WAZE and Radar-bot anything better for a mobile phone? paid or free
It called "the right foot" app.

dundarach

6,227 posts

258 months

Tuesday 29th June 2021
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Zarco

21,095 posts

239 months

Tuesday 29th June 2021
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Sebring440 said:
HandyAndy1234 said:
What's the best app to use to stop getting caught?
I have WAZE and Radar-bot anything better for a mobile phone? paid or free
It called "the right foot" app.
MK1 eyeball has served me well.

Heaveho

7,548 posts

204 months

Tuesday 29th June 2021
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I've found Waze to be of some help on occasion.

ShinyPsyduck

216 posts

138 months

Tuesday 29th June 2021
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WAZE hasnt saved me yet. I have seen a few police markers on my routes but there usually gone from the area by the time I pass. Generally interested if anyone knows of anything better.

Ive done the right foot mod but im still running the old ECU :P

Heaveho

7,548 posts

204 months

Tuesday 29th June 2021
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Waze saved me within 2 mins of downloading the app, so I suppose I'm biased!

littleredrooster

6,410 posts

226 months

Tuesday 29th June 2021
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Waze probably saved me a dozen times over 4 years / 260,000 miles. It is necessary to pay attention to it because some of the warnings are at short notice. I also try to contribute with as much input as possible for other users.

NGee

2,967 posts

194 months

Tuesday 29th June 2021
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HandyAndy1234 said:
What's the best app to use to stop getting caught?
I have WAZE and Radar-bot anything better for a mobile phone? paid or free
I find the speedometer works quite well but if you really want to use an app there are plenty of GPS type apps available which will display your speed on your phone screen.

rxe

6,700 posts

133 months

Tuesday 29th June 2021
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I would probably be a public transport user if it were not for Waze.

anonymous-user

84 months

Tuesday 29th June 2021
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Just get some EU plates and you’ll be untouchable...

ddom

6,657 posts

78 months

Wednesday 30th June 2021
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Don’t expect sane replies OP, everyone here drives to exactly the posted limited and wears both driving gloves along with both a box of tissues and ‘comfy hat’ on the parcel shelf wink

Waze is about the best app due on its wide user base. Otherwise a Road Angel. Drive smart detectors get good reviews as well.

None of these are fail safe but could help in a momentary lapse of concentration.

HTH

Kyodo

754 posts

154 months

Wednesday 30th June 2021
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Waze for me, combined with keeping it steady in built up areas and not taking the pee.

donkmeister

13,007 posts

130 months

Wednesday 30th June 2021
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Schmed said:
Just get some EU plates and you’ll be untouchable...
Yes. The police totally haven't cottoned on to that and my local trafpol Twitter feed definitely isn't full of pictures of RHD cars with eastern european plates and UK resident drivers...

Haltamer

2,674 posts

110 months

Wednesday 30th June 2021
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Kyodo said:
Waze for me, combined with keeping it steady in built up areas and not taking the pee.
That's the answer - Waze and a helping of eyes and common sense and you'll be more than sorted.

jondude

2,441 posts

247 months

Wednesday 30th June 2021
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Heaveho said:
Waze saved me within 2 mins of downloading the app, so I suppose I'm biased!
Same, was off to Suffolk and it suddenly warned me of a spotted speed trap ahead - was at the bottom of a steep hill (van at the side of the road) where it needed some decent pressure on the brake to keep the car under 30 mph.

One of those situations where you can easily creep over the limit, not least as this road was deserted and a country road so no buildings or people around at all.

s p a c e m a n

12,120 posts

178 months

Wednesday 30th June 2021
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Whilst there are some Waze users on this thread I'd like to know if there's a way to change some settings, I've tried googling but found no answers.

Is there a way to turn the zoom sensitivity down? I pinch and scroll through the map like I do on Google and it just ends up looking like a spinning globe and I'm miles from where I want to be.

Is there a way to stop it snapping back to my position when I've moved the map to look at a junction? I'll be somewhere with poor reception, move the map to somewhere to look at the traffic and before it's loaded or I've had long enough to look at it the map snaps back to where I am.

I like the idea of Waze but those two things completely stop me from using it. I don't need it for initial route planning, I want to look at the traffic flow in certain places and then leave it running incase of any updates.

Super Sonic

14,586 posts

84 months

Wednesday 30th June 2021
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Google maps flagged up an unmarked car as 'mobile speed camera' on the m62.Said car then pulled one of them 4x4 Audi's smug emoji.

rxe

6,700 posts

133 months

Wednesday 30th June 2021
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Super Sonic said:
Google maps flagged up an unmarked car as 'mobile speed camera' on the m62.Said car then pulled one of them 4x4 Audi's smug emoji.
You do get some genius spots like that occasionally. I don't think I've ever come across an unreported mobile trap.

It's best save for me was on the A43 coming home from Silverstone. I was going "quite fast", about come over the brow of a hill and it pinged. Got the car down to an approximation of the speed limit as I went over the brow and was looking down the lens of a camera van. Brilliant.

The the person asking about the screen - I don't use the visual map at all. Set destination, leave it on the passenger seat and it just talks to me.