Best speed camera/ laser detector?
Discussion
Earthdweller said:
agtlaw said:
s70rmp said:
They’re still used
Which police force in England and Wales do you think still uses technology abandoned in the 1980s?ellroy said:
How easy is it to tag them, especially when driving? Run the risk of using a device while driving charge possibly?
its legal to use as long as the phones mounted and your driving is to standardits 2 or 3 clicks to report things on waze, easier than changing many setting on modern car infotainment systems
if you have car play / android auto you use the cars control systems to report things on waze
Greendubber said:
I've always found the MK1 eyeball works best for me.
not good enough any more, as with many things technology has improved to vastly out perform humans, the new cameras they are currently rolling out have a range of a Km (or more), very hard to spot the van / concealed officer at that range Edited by Dave Hedgehog on Friday 23 August 10:01
Dave Hedgehog said:
its legal to use as long as the phones mounted and your driving is to standard
its 2 or 3 clicks to report things on waze, easier than changing many setting on modern car infotainment systems
if you have car play / android auto you use the cars control systems to report things on waze
I reported ‘Police’ on Waze through Apple Car Play yesterday. I didn’t see an option to report hidden police, speed camera or other stuff? its 2 or 3 clicks to report things on waze, easier than changing many setting on modern car infotainment systems
if you have car play / android auto you use the cars control systems to report things on waze
ElectricPics said:
s70rmp said:
It's not always Laser they use, some police forces still use good old radar guns.
I've got a Valentine 1 - excellent detector
I thought the last hand held radar guns in the UK were gone and radar was limited to fixed cameras? I've got a Valentine 1 - excellent detector
Dave Hedgehog said:
bad company said:
I reported ‘Police’ on Waze through Apple Car Play yesterday. I didn’t see an option to report hidden police, speed camera or other stuff?
in app you get options such as hidden / other side of the road, in car play atm its just a generic police s70rmp said:
There's a number of forces in the north that still use them.
I emailed the FOI address of a number of the large and small forces and they listed the models they currently have and use.
It’s been decades since any case in England was prosecuted with evidence from a mobile radar. They are not actually in use in “the north” (where I mostly practise). I emailed the FOI address of a number of the large and small forces and they listed the models they currently have and use.
Community speedwatch gimps are sometimes given radar devices to play with. That’s it. Perhaps that what they mean? If so then that’s not something to concern yourself about.
agtlaw said:
s70rmp said:
There's a number of forces in the north that still use them.
I emailed the FOI address of a number of the large and small forces and they listed the models they currently have and use.
It’s been decades since any case in England was prosecuted with evidence from a mobile radar. They are not actually in use in “the north” (where I mostly practise). I emailed the FOI address of a number of the large and small forces and they listed the models they currently have and use.
Community speedwatch gimps are sometimes given radar devices to play with. That’s it. Perhaps that what they mean? If so then that’s not something to concern yourself about.
They weren’t calibrated or evidential and a lot cheaper if they dropped or broke them
gavgavgav said:
Saw a bike cop on the Millbank using one only last week, while standing behind a tree with his bike parked across the other side of the road. (thanks for the toot and warning wave by the bikers before getting there!)
I’d imagine it was an LTI2020 or similar Handheld laser
I am always amazed that if you see a camera van, stop your car and flag down or flash other motorists then you risk a heavy fine PCOJ or some such rebuke.
But if you reach down and press the waze app to highlight to everyone in the area nothing happens to you, yet who pressed that button on the Waze app and when is logged.
Funny.
But if you reach down and press the waze app to highlight to everyone in the area nothing happens to you, yet who pressed that button on the Waze app and when is logged.
Funny.
julian64 said:
I am always amazed that if you see a camera van, stop your car and flag down or flash other motorists then you risk a heavy fine PCOJ or some such rebuke.
But if you reach down and press the waze app to highlight to everyone in the area nothing happens to you, yet who pressed that button on the Waze app and when is logged.
Funny.
There's a big difference. Waving and flashing at someone that could be speeding is at the least potentially obstruction because the camera operator is, well, operating and doing that could be obstructing them in the detection of an offence being committed.But if you reach down and press the waze app to highlight to everyone in the area nothing happens to you, yet who pressed that button on the Waze app and when is logged.
Funny.
You might press a button to mark a speed camera location but you're warning no-one, just adding data to a database. Waze, and all the other mapping operations just mark the locations of fixed and mobile camera sites and that's perfectly legal. Some safety camera partnerships even tell people where their vans are going to be.
Has Waze been improved yet to alert you when you are under the limit when approaching the camera? I find it strange that if I was to overtake something that I would only get the warning once it is too late (i.e. in the middle of the overtake and exceeding the limit then) rather than knowing that there is a camera in say 500 yards irrespective of my speed.
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