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markmcrobie
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 Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 9:54 pm Post subject: Speed cam databases - government say OK? |
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Out of curiousity, I'd like to know why the police/government approve of speed cam databases in SatNav products (like the PocketGPSWorld database), but are against radar/cam detector units.
Is there a reason for this?
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 12:01 am Post subject: Re: Speed cam databases - government say OK? |
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| markmcrobie wrote: | Out of curiousity, I'd like to know why the police/government approve of speed cam databases in SatNav products (like the PocketGPSWorld database), but are against radar/cam detector units.
Is there a reason for this?
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markmcrobie
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:53 am Post subject: |
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Thanks, but what's confusing me is this paragraph:
"The Government believes that devices which interfere with or detect the proper functioning of such cameras have only one purpose: to tell drivers when they can break speed limits and get away with it. This is unacceptable. It prevents the police from carrying out their duties, and is a danger to other law-abiding road users.
The Government will not be prohibiting those devices that rely on Global Positioning System (GPS) technology to warn drivers of published camera sites or posted speed limits, as these compliment the Government's policy to ensure that camera sites are visible and conspicuous to drivers, and so help deter excessive and inappropriate speeds on the roads."
Why are detector units classed as "unacceptable", whereas GPS based systems are considered "complimentary" when both do the same thing - let drivers know where the cams are?
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Skippy
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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| markmcrobie wrote: | | Why are detector units classed as "unacceptable", whereas GPS based systems are considered "complimentary" when both do the same thing - let drivers know where the cams are? |
Yes, it's quite odd really. I don't use my RADAR detector anymore, too many speed cameras don't use RADAR. A GPS based detector is far more reliable and less prone to false positives. On the down side, a GPS system is not as good at warning about mobile sites though my opinion is that LASER detectors aren't effective enough.
The only thing I can think of is that a RADAR detector can tell you if a camera housing has a RADAR unit in it - many of them don't. However, the camera housing you see may not actually use RADAR so you still have to be careful.
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Why are detector units classed as "unacceptable", whereas GPS based systems are considered "complimentary" when both do the same thing - let drivers know where the cams are?
Since when did anything the Government come up with have to make sense  |
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