Wondered if anybody had tried these solar power detectors with free lifetime updates from euro car parts?

Waste of money as a detector as they will already of got you using the Doppler effect laser method rather than radar.

 

Has lots of location in the database and that is its strength but should not be relied on to any great degree.

It's not actually a camera detector, it's a GPS device that compares your location with a database of camera locations (IIRC the legal position of radar detectors was clarified a few years ago confirming their use as illegal and the use of laser jammers against speed cameras has always been illegal - and repeated use can lead to confiscation of the vehicle).

 

LInk to Streetwize website http://www.streetwizeaccessories.com/Catalogue/Streetwize-Accessories/Reverse-Parking-Aids-GPS-Tracker/Spy-Speed-Camera-Detector-SWSPY

1 hour ago, PetrolDave said:

It's not actually a camera detector, it's a GPS device that compares your location with a database of camera locations (IIRC the legal position of radar detectors was clarified a few years ago confirming their use as illegal and the use of laser jammers against speed cameras has always been illegal - and repeated use can lead to confiscation of the vehicle).

 

LInk to Streetwize website http://www.streetwizeaccessories.com/Catalogue/Streetwize-Accessories/Reverse-Parking-Aids-GPS-Tracker/Spy-Speed-Camera-Detector-SWSPY

 

Radar detectors are not illegal in the UK, as they are in France.  

 

Not aware of any commercial laser "jammer" or blinder, which military has but is not in civilian hands.

 

Agreed it is a GPS device which simply warns one is approaching a known speed camera location and since the vans are mobile by nature it is of limited use over good use of grey matter ie be carefully on straights of half a mile or more than has over-bridges and convenient laybys etc.

 

 

Thanks for you views ,just saved £44.99 then!

16 hours ago, lol-lol said:

Radar detectors are not illegal in the UK, as they are in France.  

 

Not aware of any commercial laser "jammer" or blinder, which military has but is not in civilian hands.

You're right about radar detectors, legislation was suggested but never happened.

 

Laser jammers are available for sale in the UK, they are sold as garage door openers or parking sensors

 

Google will show many examples of them being used on UK roads, and here's one car owners experience of being caught using one People are using laser jammers to foil traffic cameras. Does it work, and is it legal?

'Perverting the course of justice'.

 

Saying you were 60 miles away and wasting police time and lying or committing perjury might well get you a jail sentence. (perjury is lying under oath though and he had plead guilty to 'perverting the course of justice'.)

Company director used laser jammer so he could escape fines while giving speed cameras the finger.mhtml

Edited 15 October, 20187 yr by Offski

I used to work with a guy in the eighties in the US who took part of the radar from an F4 phantom and modified it to transmit a huge radar signal back to the radar gun.

 

Must have been some very confused cops when their radar gun told them the Ford Truck was doing Mach 3! 8-)

Edited 15 October, 20187 yr by Jfhuk

22 hours ago, lol-lol said:

Radar detectors are not illegal in the UK, as they are in France. 

 

Just to add that ALL speed camera warning devices are illegal in France, GPS as well as radar. This is why speed camera locations in France have been removed from their database by sat nav manufacturers.

 

All systems now illegal whether radar detector or satnav/gps

 

I don't belive it's illegal to have a GPS with recorded locations of cameras in the UK. Fixed camera locations are after all visible and published. My 2015 Mazda had fixed camera locations built into the satnav and would alert. Local plod up here will also publish mobile camera van locations in advance.

 

I also don't belive it's illegal to own detection equipment although I think it is illegal to use it.

 

Disruptive / jamming equipment is almost certainly illegal to use.

After all, if it were illegal to own a GPS/prat nav with a greed scamera database in it, it would surely also be illegal to put locations in directions from route finding software, or publish. print, sell or buy a road atlas with with fixed scamera locations?

http://www.safetycameras.gov.scot/cameras/safety-camera-locations/

 

Can't find the active locations for the mobile vans but I know they publish them in the local press.