Best speed camera/ laser detector?

[richardsheen]

Just got 6 points in 2 months!

[eybic]

Laser detectors are pointless, by the time it warns you, you've already been caught. An option would be to use the Waze app whenever you drive as that warns of cameras and mobile sites once another user has reported them.

[RegMolehusband]

Laser detectors aren't pointless. They often detect scatter and reflections as he targets other cars well ahead.

I was driving along a quiet A14 a couple of years ago at a nice steady indicated 75-77, and the detector I had then began to chirp gently. I couldn't see anything. But then about 800 yards ahead the rear of a camera van appeared over a gentle brow.

If I was doing a big mileage now like I was in those days, I would have one.

[Riley Blue]

eybic said:

Laser detectors are pointless, by the time it warns you, you've already been caught. An option would be to use the Waze app whenever you drive as that warns of cameras and mobile sites once another user has reported them.

Therein lies the problem.

[eybic]

Riley Blue said:

eybic said:

Laser detectors are pointless, by the time it warns you, you've already been caught. An option would be to use the Waze app whenever you drive as that warns of cameras and mobile sites once another user has reported them.

Therein lies the problem.

I've yet to come across one of you lot parked that hasn't been reported as there are a lot of users now so most of the time us wazers know you're there

[Riley Blue]

eybic said:

Riley Blue said:

eybic said:

Laser detectors are pointless, by the time it warns you, you've already been caught. An option would be to use the Waze app whenever you drive as that warns of cameras and mobile sites once another user has reported them.

Therein lies the problem.

I've yet to come across one of you lot parked that hasn't been reported as there are a lot of users now so most of the time us wazers know you're there

I saw two camera vans one the move on a recent trip, one just pulling into a layby. BTW - I too am a wazer.

[eybic]

Riley Blue said:

eybic said:

Riley Blue said:

eybic said:

Laser detectors are pointless, by the time it warns you, you've already been caught. An option would be to use the Waze app whenever you drive as that warns of cameras and mobile sites once another user has reported them.

Therein lies the problem.

I've yet to come across one of you lot parked that hasn't been reported as there are a lot of users now so most of the time us wazers know you're there

I saw two camera vans one the move on a recent trip, one just pulling into a layby. BTW - I too am a wazer.

I was jesting

[bad company]

An ideal solution would be Waze and a detector for new traps.

[s70rmp]

It's not always Laser they use, some police forces still use good old radar guns.

I've got a Valentine 1 - excellent detector

[rxe]

WAZE. Every single time.

It has saved me many, many points. Most recently on a fairly deserted A43 when I was giving it a bit of a spanking along with a few other cars. Waze pinged, 2 of us slammed on, the other 2 didn't ..... I suspect they got nice letters, because as we came over the brow of a hill, there was the camera van.

You know what? I am utterly desperate to be the first to report a camera van, but I've never managed to. Someone has always tagged it before me.

It alerts on fixed cameras as well, but if you get nicked by them, you need to think about your driving.

[ellroy]

How easy is it to tag them, especially when driving? Run the risk of using a device while driving charge possibly?

[eybic]

ellroy said:

How easy is it to tag them, especially when driving? Run the risk of using a device while driving charge possibly?

It's 2 (maybe 3) prods of the screen. The first press saves the location so you don't necessarily need to do all of the "prods" immediately.

[RemyMartin81D]

rxe said:

WAZE. Every single time.

It has saved me many, many points. Most recently on a fairly deserted A43 when I was giving it a bit of a spanking along with a few other cars. Waze pinged, 2 of us slammed on, the other 2 didn't ..... I suspect they got nice letters, because as we came over the brow of a hill, there was the camera van.

You know what? I am utterly desperate to be the first to report a camera van, but I've never managed to. Someone has always tagged it before me.

It alerts on fixed cameras as well, but if you get nicked by them, you need to think about your driving.

Definitely this.

I too have never spotted a camera van that isn't on the database (which tbh is a bonus rather than a hinderance). It seems very well updated these days as I guess it has so many users. In fact other than breakdowns on motorways, its fairly rare to get the chance to add something

[bad company]

s70rmp said:

I've got a Valentine 1 - excellent detector

I sold mine as I was fed up with it going off when passing petrol stations and just about anything. Too many false alarms.

[s70rmp]

bad company said:

s70rmp said:

I've got a Valentine 1 - excellent detector

I sold mine as I was fed up with it going off when passing petrol stations and just about anything. Too many false alarms.

Thats the problem - people think it's false alarms but they aren't it's doing what it's meant to be doing it;s picking up sources of radar on certain frequencies - yes some are doors or such like but it's correctly identifying them and reporting as it's intended.

[ElectricPics]

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?

[gp3000000]

ellroy said:

How easy is it to tag them, especially when driving? Run the risk of using a device while driving charge possibly?

You certainly do, if the device is a mobile phone, and you touch the screen.

Waze uses data to report the camera van, which counts as an 'interactive communication function'.

[Le Controleur Horizontal]

gp3000000 said:

You certainly do, if the device is a mobile phone, and you touch the screen.

Waze uses data to report the camera van, which counts as an 'interactive communication function'.

Am I being daft but how is that different to the screens on a myriad of cars ?
What about Screen Share ?(to a fitted screen)

[Graveworm]

gp3000000 said:

You certainly do, if the device is a mobile phone, and you touch the screen.

Waze uses data to report the camera van, which counts as an 'interactive communication function'.

They wouldn't fall foul of the mobile phone legislation. if they didn't need to hold it. For instance if it is in a holder

[s70rmp]

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?

Its amazing what you can find out und the FOI requests :-)

there still used