Mobile Speed Cameras

deanos63 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 07, 2006 Posts: 14

Hi all,

This may sound like a stupid question, but i'll ask it anyway.

I downloaded all the POI's for speed cameras and loaded them all to my i3, which was great, but when using it out on the road the thing will start beeping and stuff warning me of mobile speed cameras and tempory speed cameras, when there is nothing there.

My question is, what's the point in this? Why download all the temp and mobile cameras when by the time you have downloaded them and use your GPS they have probably moved on and it is gonna warn you about nothing?

I have since removed the mobile and temp database from the i3, cuz i got fed up with looking like a 85 year old man slowing down to 30mph for no apparent reason all to shut my i3 up!

thanks

P.S no offence to any 85 year old men who read this, i'm not saying you drive slow, just carefully.

swing · Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:02 pm Post subject: Re: Mobile Speed Cameras

Nickwolf · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 01, 2005 Posts: 219

Skippy · Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:10 am Post subject: Re: Mobile Speed Cameras

PaulB2005 · Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:47 am Post subject:

Last week i was in Durham visiting the In-Laws and my i3 did it's first real long distance journey. Like you i thought these Mobile alerts are getting on my ***s (the A217 near me is littered with Mobile sites which never seem to be used when i travel down it) and i nearly removed them. Fortunately i didn't as one day in Durham i was going up a road and the Mobile alert was giving it BONG, BONG, BONG so i slowed to 40 mph. Annoying alert and no camera. Second time up the road, same thing, slowed to 40 mph. Third time, was overtaken by a big Merc doing about 60+ mph just as i spotted the van at the top of the hill.

By slowing down each time (like an 85 year old or not) not only did i loose the annoying BONGS but i also (hopefully as it's still not 14 days - touch wood) saved points and a fine.

deanos63 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 07, 2006 Posts: 14

PaulB2005 · Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:56 pm Post subject:

ride4smilesjonny · Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:58 pm Post subject:

paul4400 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 05, 2006 Posts: 13

I would rather be warned that im in a mobile zone, all i do is have the volume set on 4 then its not so in your face. Its a mobile camera zone so its likely that most of the time they are not there but i would rather know because it just makes you more alert to spot them if they are Smile

As you said if its to annoying remove them from the data base, here in norfolk i find that there is a camera van in the mobile sites at least once a week sometimes more so i choose to leave mine in :D

005clive · Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:08 pm Post subject:

I can’t remember the country (I’ll try and look it up), but a country many years ago would only ever give a one off penalty for speeding

DEATH

I’m not trying to say I’ve never exceeded the speed limit, I have but remember it’s not just your life you’re playing with
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swing · Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:41 pm Post subject:

deanos63 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 07, 2006 Posts: 14

swing i'm grateful for your response, thanks.

All i'm saying is that there are people on here that keep on about "there is no such thing as speeding in a non-dangerous way" blah blah blah!
and, "you shouldn't be speeding at all anyway" etc etc... "speed limits are there for a reason"
but it's these same people that tell us to download the database for speed cameras, it's great it tells you where all the saftey cameras are, i've got them all!

I bet you these same people (yes, the one's that know the law down to a T, and never ever ever go past the speed limit ever) have radar and laser detecors scattered across their dashboards like it's a shelf in dixons!

and no one answered the question Why? maybe you can answer ride4smilesjonny you seem to know it all?

and i already apologised for the 85 year old man thing, i was being a bit sterotypical.

Nickwolf · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 01, 2005 Posts: 219

I never said I didn't go over the speed limit from time to time (although I do try to stick to the limit as I believe safe speeding is an oxymoron).

What I was saying is that the reason the unit warns you to slow down is because somebody at some time in the past has seen a camera at that location.

If you don't want to know about that then keep the mobile part of the database deleted.

The only thing I would say is that I drive 1000 miles a week in a police force area (West Mercia) that uses predominately mobile sites and I have a clean driving licence, many of my colleagues who do not have gps and the database have 9 or more points on their licences and really have to drive like 85 years olds to hold on to their livelihoods.

Nick

matb · Frequent Visitor Joined: Mar 20, 2006 Posts: 258

as a motorway patrol officer for greater manchester police i think we are loosing sight of what we should be using this database for.

lets keep it simple, everyone who gets in to a car and drives breaks the law, its that simple because 1mph over the posted limit is an offence !!!

so back to the reason of the database. wether you like it or not the cameras are here to stay, the up side is as of next year the money raised from the cameras cannot be put back into buying new ones. at the cost of the units this can only mean a reduction in new ones.

the cameras are there after a period of assesment by the safety camera partnership following an increase in serious or fatal road colisions or constant complaints about speeding offences in that area.

with this in mind lets re educate ourselves in the use of the database and use it as a tool to warn us about the on coming dangers ie a high risk accident location or an area prone to speeders.

ride4smilesjonny · Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:43 pm Post subject:

deano,

theyre called SAFETY cameras, not speed cameras (making a point, not saying you aint addressing them correctly!) -

So, they are SAFETY, why? cause they advise us that the area into which we will enter is historically or potentially dangerous!
Not SPEED cameras so we watch our speed! Get it! Wink

As for your question as to why they advise us of 'nothing' - Well thats as simple and plain as the I3 on your dash my friend, these have been uploaded to advise us when maybe a workforce, roadworkers etc WERE in the area, and for the SAFETY of these people we are advised that they are/maybe here on our passing! Its quite probable to summise that the roadworks/maintenance work has finished and the temp cameras now relocated elsewhere- You done the right thing for you and took them off, so no probs and happy smiling faces all around!

Keep ye' speed down! 8)
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