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mookaloid - 11/11/08 at 12:07 PM

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JAG - 11/11/08 at 12:51 PM

What a great idea, I think we should all get one.

Only downside is it's relatively expensive, about double the price of the cheapest GPS based camera detector. But it does offer the chance to report mobile speed traps which the GPS based units can't detect.

iank - 11/11/08 at 12:55 PM

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Originally posted by JAG
But it does offer the chance to report mobile speed traps which the GPS based units can't detect.


I got a taxi the other day and his satnav called out about a possible mobile trap at a place I've commonly seen them. Don't know what model it was (late at night after a 28 hour journey didn't care that much)

Of course it could get silly if every place they've ever been seen was in the system.

loggyboy - 11/11/08 at 01:39 PM

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Pulling a fast one

— Until 1998 speed cameras had been thought to be illegal under the Wireless and Telegraphy Act 1949

— The Road Safety Act 2006 gave the Government the power to ban radar and laser speed cameras


Spot their 'deliberate'? mistake

[Edited on 11/11/08 by loggyboy]

RK - 11/11/08 at 02:34 PM

Cameras are nothing but a tax grab. If the idea is truly to slow speeders, then the government should welcome the idea. Radar detectors are banned in the two provinces I live and work in, for no good reason other than to increase government revenue.

DarrenW - 11/11/08 at 02:38 PM

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Originally posted by loggyboy
quote:
Pulling a fast one

— Until 1998 speed cameras had been thought to be illegal under the Wireless and Telegraphy Act 1949

— The Road Safety Act 2006 gave the Government the power to ban radar and laser speed cameras


Spot their 'deliberate'? mistake

[Edited on 11/11/08 by loggyboy]




I think its great that one act had the foresight since 1949 that speed cameras would be used (isnt that even before speed limits were introduced) and that the 2006 act can allow governments to ban the speed cameras. Does that mean the detectors are OK then?