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(Message started by: - Mike - on May 21^st, 2008, 8:56pm)

Title: WHICH one?
Post by - Mike - on May 21^st, 2008, 8:56pm

Looking possibly towards purchasing a Sat Nav with Speed Camera Detector.
This would be the type that has an actual detector rather than simply the locations of fixed cameras programmed in.

Has any one any experience and/or recommendation as to the BEST one available PLEASE!

Title: Re: WHICH one?
Post by gozz on May 21^st, 2008, 8:58pm

Mike.
The SPEEDOMETER is the most reliable instrument ! ::)

Title: Re: WHICH one?
Post by - Mike - on May 21^st, 2008, 9:00pm

}{ LOL true.........but still.

Title: Re: WHICH one?
Post by a900one on May 21^st, 2008, 9:58pm

I have a snooper the one with the radar detector. I only use it if I am going somwhere new and might be looking for where I want to go and not 100% at my speed. Its a bit old now and there are ones with more bells and whistles but its ok.

Title: Re: WHICH one?
Post by sector-9 on May 22^nd, 2008, 9:51pm

I thought those were made illegal - only database based ones being allowed?

Darren

Title: Re: WHICH one?
Post by adam5172 on May 23^rd, 2008, 5:20pm

ive got a route 66 one bought from HALFORDS 18 months ago excellent sat nav with camera warnings not had a single problem with mine

Edited by Snoopy to remove incorrect use of the the word "FRAUD"

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Title: Re: WHICH one?
Post by - Mike - on May 23^rd, 2008, 9:00pm

Thanks,

Forgetting the speed detector part for the moment, which would you all say had the best and most accurate mapping.

Title: Re: WHICH one?
Post by adam5172 on May 23^rd, 2008, 9:47pm

my route 66 one is very accurate will take you to a front door every time and has different route settings ie shortest fastest and loads of other useful features and its never taken me down farm tracks etc its a good bit of kit for reasonable cost

Title: Re: WHICH one?
Post by sab6024 on May 27^th, 2008, 10:14pm

I have a Garmin nuvi 660FM which I'm very impressed with, it has mobile camera sites and fixed site warnings. Bluetooth too which is very handy for me although the Scorp and the Capri are bluetoothed through the stereos anyway ;). Garmin hasn't got me lost yet. Here's hoping it will get me to Santa Pod this weekend without getting me lost ;D

Title: Re: WHICH one?
Post by mr._floppy on May 31^st, 2008, 4:49pm

Call me Mr. Thicky, but why would you want to know the location of Speed Cameras ?

Have we criminals on this board ? :o

Title: Re: WHICH one?
Post by TiberiuS on May 31^st, 2008, 5:59pm

G'day Mr Floppy.

If you call doing 35 in a 30 zone on a quiet road out of hours a crime then I think you're in with the wrong crowd :-/

Sorry but if you think the way road regulations are enforced nowadays with hiding cameras on quiet open roads where people are likely to *safely* do a few over the limit rather than putting trained traffic plods near places like schools to catch real bad driving is the right way to go then you must be barmy.

Regards, Bruce.

Title: Re: WHICH one?
Post by Geoff_W on May 31^st, 2008, 9:32pm

Erm evening chaps, the speedometer on the scorpio is about 8% -10% optimistic.

Title: Re: WHICH one?
Post by mr._floppy on Jun 1^st, 2008, 12:36pm

I would have thought an experienced and responsible driver would be able to drive his/her car at or below the required speed limit. It's a basic driving skill that many have lost, or prefer to ignore

With GPS, digital speedometers and cruise control fitted to most cars there's less and less excuse for speeding.

Unless you think it's a game.

Title: Re: WHICH one?
Post by Highlander on Jun 3^rd, 2008, 1:46am

on 05/31/08 at 17:59:25, TiberiuS wrote:

If you call doing 35 in a 30 zone on a quiet road out of hours a crime then I think you're in with the wrong crowd :-/

It is isnt it?? ;D

There has to be a limit otherwise its open to individual interpretation.

I might consider doing 40 in a quiet area at 3am is "safely doing a few over the limit" , Mr. Floppy may consider 30 is correct, Michael Schumacher might quite happily toddle along it at 80 or more.

So you would really need a "limit" as to how many over the limit you were safely allowed to do which would then give us another limit do safely do a few more over
(it does make sense if you read it often enough) ;)

Title: Re: WHICH one?
Post by taliban aka Cheekyboy2 on Jun 3^rd, 2008, 6:03pm

oh gawd we're off again on the speeding debate.
every single road in the country is safe if driven on at the correct speed for the conditions etc regardless of imposed speed limits.
for me its a question of reasonability, i.e. is it reasonable to expect a hefty fine etc for travelling at 4 or 5 mph above the given limit on an empty road with good conditions?

Title: Re: WHICH one?
Post by TiberiuS on Jun 3^rd, 2008, 8:24pm

on 06/03/08 at 18:03:17, taliban aka Cheekyboy2 wrote:

every single road in the country is safe if driven on at the correct speed for the conditions etc regardless of imposed speed limits.

for me its a question of reasonability, i.e. is it reasonable to expect a hefty fine etc for travelling at 4 or 5 mph above the given limit on an empty road with good conditions?

[]

Spot on that man, couldn't have put it better myself.

Speed limits are NOT a target, because of the minority of idiots who treat them as targets we all get to suffer. There's plenty of roads around here which have a 60 and I wouldn't ever consider more than 45, other roads with a 30 where when it's out of hours you have a nice wide, well lit road where you could happily do 45 and still have time to react if someone jumped out in front of you or pulled out from a side turning. Surely part of driving safely is to drive for the conditions and to read the road ahead?

Am I such a really bad person for sometimes doing 40 in a 30 limit down a well lit road at 3 in the morning? :-/

Title: Re: WHICH one?
Post by scorpio_man on Jun 3^rd, 2008, 9:13pm

hi there

can we get this back on topic please.

that's what sat nav unit is better.

regards
andrew
forum admin team

Title: Re: WHICH one?
Post by Highlander on Jun 3^rd, 2008, 11:07pm

But this is the off topic section!! ;)

Title: Re: WHICH one?
Post by pat on Jun 5^th, 2008, 8:47pm

Yes but I think what Andrew is getting at Stuart, is that we've gone off the Off- Topic topic and he would like us to get back on the off-topic topic in question. Seems simple enough to me..... :P

P.s. I'm sure he wouldn't mind if you started another off
topic topic on the same subject.