Speed camera detectors

[MrsSmithD]

Can anyone recommend a good one?

I’ve been looking online and I can’t really find one with good reviews! All seem a bit mediocre.

In the nicest possible way, I am not looking for people to say not to speed! I am fully in agreement about this. This is for DH who has now got 6 points on his licence and I don’t want him to get anymore!

Thanks in advance!

Your reply is a you issue. 🫣

But the principle remains.
Whether one murders 1 person or 21, one is a murderer, whether you burgle 1 house or 101 houses, you are a burglar
whether you do 21 mph or 121 mph in a 20pmh zone, you are speeding
Principle

You are all missing the point here though. Rather than attacking OP, why don’t you read what she said.

She is not looking for a device to enable him to speed, she said in her original post she doesn’t agree with speeding. She is looking for a device to prevent him speeding, one to alert him if the speed limit has changed. They are called speed camera detectors on Halfords so she appears to have used this terminology.

I think some of you on this post, on other posts and in real life need to think before you speak. You’re just plain nasty and it amounts to bullying. One post (which has since been deleted by Mumsnet moderators), called her and her husband attempted murderers ffs! Absolutely crackers.

Not all speed cameras use radar anyway.

Also, average speed cameras (Birmingham is festooned with them) mean that it is much harder to habitually speed.

There is a guaranteed method for avoiding speeding fines. However I charge £1,000 per unit and and I only take advance payments.

That happened in my town as well. People complained and they put 30 signs up. Sometimes it's deliberately designed to catch people out.

And there aren't always signs, or eg on motorways the limit changes just as you are approaching the gantry and there's no way you could slow down in time but get caught by the camera.

Speeding is wrong, but it's the crazy dangerous driving that causes problems, not someone doing 35 in a 30 limit. Such as all the parents driving their kids to school in their SUVs going about 45 in a 30 limit. They are the ones who need to be banned.

Exactly this! Everyone jumping on OP for her DH doing 25 in a non built up area and not outside a school.

If he was going any slower he’d be reversing!

Do you not understand that changing the speed of a car does not also change the direction? 🫣

RedbuttonGreenbutton · Today 09:30

Sure but all cars on the road aren't modern.

I was working on the assumption that the vast majority of cars on the road are 25 years old, or less. I have a 1955 Matchless, with a Smith's Chronometric speedo; speedos have to be accurate at 30 mph and it's bang on, but 63 mph is actually 70.

Do you not understand that changing the speed of a car does not also change the direction? 🫣

It was called a JOKE.

This thread is insane.

OP - can I have a recommendation to help DH to drive more carefully.

Mumsnet keyboard warriors - you are a terrible person, you need locking up, you are breaking the law, you are an accomplice to attempted murder.

What have I just read?!

OP - a good and PERFECTLY LEGAL device is the Road Angel Pure One speed camera detector that can be bought with Amazon prime - not on the black market as the previous posters are making out 🤣 you will be pleased to know - it is neither immoral, or assisting DH to break the law, but quite the contrary, will tell him if he accidentally goes over the speed limit without realising, which is what I believe you were looking for.

I have family who live in Wales who have said the 20 speed limit is a shambles. It is in fact more dangerous as it is making impatient drivers overtake on roads they shouldn’t be overtaking on! And for no reason as not outside of schools or on a housing estate. They are also cracking down on enforcing it hence your DHs speeding fines. I’m guessing he was just driving with the flow of traffic without spotting it had dropped to a 20 when previously a 30.

OP ignore the 🤡 on this thread.

The detectors beep at you when you enter an average speed check area so you don't have to see the signs or remember where they are. They also tell you where there is a high risk of mobile speed traps, not foolproof but again a little reminder. And they remind you of the speed limit where you are driving, so if you are trying to always follow the limit you are not caught out by missing a sign.

Do you mean detectors, or apps / sat navs like Google Maps / Waze? Using a mark one eyeball to see the signs is not illegal, having a radar detector and relying on it to beep at you if you aren't driving with sufficient due care and attention to see the sign is illegal.

Speed limits are similarly signed.

I get that some of the sat nav apps are helpful in stating the speed limits in the event of the driving not being observant, but that doesn't negate the obligation for the driver to pay attention.

The Road Angel Pure One speed camera detector tells you when you are going over the speed limit.

This is what I believe OP was looking for. To alert when accidentally going over the limit due to the speed limits changing in Wales and it becoming confusing for everyone, not just her husband.

No where has she asked for a radar detector to enable her husband to speed. Take a look at the one she linked to in Halfords, and read her posts.

This is how these threads get nasty and out of hand when people don’t read things properly 🤦‍♂️

Well, jokes tend to be funny, so your comment doesn't fit the criteria. 🫣

She might be ignoring everything but your last sentence then.
I presume it's not only you who can call others clowns? 🫣

'Lack of due care and attention' you call that, not 'getting caught out'

As pp have said Waze has audible alarms if you go above the speed limit and warns you if you are approaching a speed camera. I also use my speed limiter if I'm doing 30 on a quiet road for any length of time to stop my speed from creeping up.

In a moment of inattention, I was caught doing 35 in a 30 limit. I found the speed awareness course sobering, so I use the sat nav on my phone to prompt me should I lose my focus again. The point of speed cameras is to get people to slow down in dangerous spots. If the camera detector makes the driver slow down, the camera has done its job.

The speed camera detectors that let the driver know whether the camera is actually switched on, are entirely immortal, in my opinion. Don't get him one of those.

I think it's a terminology thing. That Road Angel isn't a detector at all, it just reads published information from the Internet. Detectors are generally regarded as being the things that detect the radar / laser signal and alert the driver. They are most definitely illegal. The Road Angel is not one of those.

I agree about the nastiness, there's no need for that. I stand by the fact that the speed limits are posted, as are big signs stating where there are speed cameras, so a driver paying attention and observing the speed limit has no use for such devices, and should be able to rely on the mark one eyeball that every driver should have at least one of.

Exactly this. The speed cameras are generally placed in accident hotspots. So if a speed camera detector makes one person slow down on a notoriously dangerous stretch of road, potentially preventing an accident, how can people criticise said device?!

And if the same device alerts you the entire journey every time you go over the limit absentmindedly (which can happen to even the most perfect of Mumsnet drivers, tiredness, long day etc) further preventing more accidents, again, how can people criticise said device?!

Now, if you use this device to drive like Michael Schumacher then that’s obviously an issue, but it is not what this post is about, and not what the OP was alluding to.

These are also called speed camera detectors though, take a look online. So OP used the correct terminology relating to the product she was looking for, but it is the Mumsnetters that misinterpreted this, jumping on her like a pack of wild animals. Which sadly I am seeing more and more on mumsnet these days. It has become a place to attack strangers on the internet and no longer the place of support it once was!

There is a reason that speed traps are bright yellow and have to be placed where they can be clearly seen from a distance.

Much as people would love to believe that they're money grabbers (in which case surely they'd be hidden so that they could catch more people?) they're actually there to make people reduce their speed. The more drivers who see them in advance, or who are warned of their existence, the safer that stretch of road will be.

Sell his car and buy him a bicycle.

I find it amusing that people think speed limits get changed simply to catch drivers out and make money, and all that’s involved is to take down or change the signs.

If you are driving fast enough to exceed the speed limit, you should be alert enough to spot the cameras.

I quite often go over the limit, but I don't caught by cameras because I am watching out for them, amongst other things.

There is also a fair tolerance on the cameras, so in order to trip them you have to be both quite a way over the limit plus not really paying attention to the road.

I do get that if you are a professional driver driving tens of thousands of miles a year then the probability of getting caught by a camera now or then is quite high.

It's easy to be sanctimonious about speed cameras when all you ever do is trundle backwards and forwards to the local shops and do a grad total of 500 miles a year.

That said, if you are driving for a living you should probably be employing camera alert devices such as those available on some sat navs, as well as setting alert limits on your car so if you do go over the limit you are pinged.