Can anyone recommend a good Road Angel...
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AndyandChrisGTR said:
Pogo Alert plus!!
Very good had one for 18 months now and not had any points since having it! Do 25k miles per year. Only downside is you have to charge it.
Chris
Thanks.Very good had one for 18 months now and not had any points since having it! Do 25k miles per year. Only downside is you have to charge it.
Chris
What are its advantages?
Live updates?
Does it have intell re mobile camera positions etc?
I guess nothing can help re variable gantry cams!!
PD01 said:
AndyandChrisGTR said:
Pogo Alert plus!!
Very good had one for 18 months now and not had any points since having it! Do 25k miles per year. Only downside is you have to charge it.
Chris
Thanks.Very good had one for 18 months now and not had any points since having it! Do 25k miles per year. Only downside is you have to charge it.
Chris
What are its advantages?
Live updates?
Does it have intell re mobile camera positions etc?
I guess nothing can help re variable gantry cams!!
I think the gantry ones are the most difficult to keep track of as they change quite quickly so difficult to keep track of what speed they're set too. It does tell you of there location but obviously not of the current speed limit (don't think there are any that do this).
Hope that helps
Chris
PD01 said:
Thanks for the stupid response.
I am aware of that idea, and am not a wild driver, but obviously need help with my observations skills!!
It's not a stupid response but an obvious one, if you need help with your observational skills then you need to be looking at refresher driving courses and/or eye tests.I am aware of that idea, and am not a wild driver, but obviously need help with my observations skills!!
AndyandChrisGTR said:
You have to plug it in to update it but since it needs plugging into a computer to charge this becomes quite routine anyway. It alert to mobile camera sites but also has a laser detector built in (although you have to be properly on the anchors if that goes off!)
I think the gantry ones are the most difficult to keep track of as they change quite quickly so difficult to keep track of what speed they're set too. It does tell you of there location but obviously not of the current speed limit (don't think there are any that do this).
Hope that helps
Chris
Where did you buy? Are they only available online?I think the gantry ones are the most difficult to keep track of as they change quite quickly so difficult to keep track of what speed they're set too. It does tell you of there location but obviously not of the current speed limit (don't think there are any that do this).
Hope that helps
Chris
PD01 said:
Where did you buy? Are they only available online?
Yes only available from there website. They are pretty good though. I left mine in the window in the recent hot weather and the on/off button melted in place so I couldn't operate it. I sent it back to them and even though it was out of the warranty period they have replaced the unit FOC.The guy that said if the laser thing goes off then you have already been caugth is probably correct for most circumstances. However the detectors also detect laser scatter where it may have hit other car in the vicinity so it's not always the case.
Chris
Durzel said:
If the laser detector part of it goes off they've already got you anyway, since it would detect the very beam that is being used to assess your speed.
Not quite. There are many arguments on this issue but mine went off once or twice when I was well over yet i never got done and i think it went off due to scatter from cars ahead of me.Now there will be others who say it isn't possible.
I've done quite a bit of research into this, and came to the conclusion that the pogo alert plus, snopper 3zero and others of their ilk are pretty useless.
My setup is smartphone running trapster, tomtom with updated camera locations, and a valentine one radar detector. The first two warn of fixed digital speed cameras (specs, truvelos, speedcurbs etc) and common enforcement points, and the valentine one detects the radar beam from gatso cameras, both overhead motorway ones and town ones.
Of course, none of these will protect you from a sneakily hidden scamera van: although the valentine one detects laser, by the time it has it's too late. The only ways to combat scamera vans are jammers disguised as parking sensors such as the Laser Pro Park or Blinder M47. They're extremely expensive, difficult to install, and although technically not illegal, if they can prove you're using them for jamming and not parking, you'll find yourself with a much more trouble than you would if you were speeding.
My setup is smartphone running trapster, tomtom with updated camera locations, and a valentine one radar detector. The first two warn of fixed digital speed cameras (specs, truvelos, speedcurbs etc) and common enforcement points, and the valentine one detects the radar beam from gatso cameras, both overhead motorway ones and town ones.
Of course, none of these will protect you from a sneakily hidden scamera van: although the valentine one detects laser, by the time it has it's too late. The only ways to combat scamera vans are jammers disguised as parking sensors such as the Laser Pro Park or Blinder M47. They're extremely expensive, difficult to install, and although technically not illegal, if they can prove you're using them for jamming and not parking, you'll find yourself with a much more trouble than you would if you were speeding.
PD01 said:
SamT1993 said:
May sound stupid and obvious but u could just not speed !!! 
Thanks for the stupid response.I am aware of that idea, and am not a wild driver, but obviously need help with my observations skills!!
What is stupid about that?
I hear this 'business driver' argument all the time: does that mean you are a rep in an Audi who goes everywhere at 90?
PD01 said:
am aware of that idea, and am not a wild driver, but obviously need help with my observations skills!!
If you need help with your observation skills, I suggest you drive quite a bit slower than the posted speed limit, if only for the sake of the child you fail to observe playing in the road.Caught one more time, and you get a free push bike for 6 months.
No equipment is going to stop you driving into the sights of a speed van (in fact, equipment is likely to give you a false sense of security).
The only answer is to stick to the speed limits *shock!*
No equipment is going to stop you driving into the sights of a speed van (in fact, equipment is likely to give you a false sense of security).
The only answer is to stick to the speed limits *shock!*
Edited by JumboBeef on Tuesday 28th August 10:18
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