SPEED CAMERA WARNING DEVICES

My UHF unit, Uniden GPS105 has the speed camera, red light camera and black spot locations though it doesn't have the School Zones. Besides that it works very well and doubles as a GPS and UHF radio......I've been more than happy with it....

Perhaps the best judge of speed and impending danger (in the absence of advanced technology) is still the driver who has complete control over speed and braking. Makes it all sound too simple doesn't it !

Since when has driver interaction with the speedo, brake, steering etc been negative? I thought it was more likely to be 'creative driving'.

That's actually a really good idea that wouldn't be too hard to impliment. When I used to drive on the road for work I'd be working from 8am to 6:30pm most days. Bugger me if I always new that it just happened to be between 2:30pm and 4:00pm!! I mean your consumed with your day, your work, the traffic, deadlines and you are driving through a DESERTED school zone because the kids all buggered off at 3:00pm, then you discover that it's 3:55pm and you get booked! (it's happened before for the doo gooders say that it woulnd't!).

There are lot's of school zones where there is NO school visible (main roads, some as high a 70kph zones that between certain hours of the day with no warning other than a sign that can be either damaged, missing or just hard to see through bushes or traffic and all of a sudden with no bugger around you are expected to be doing nearly HALF that speed.

Don't get me wrong I'm all for school zones but I've always said that they should installed BIG flashing lights like they have on major intersections for the road trains that come on when the school zones are active, at least that way if you are in an umfamiliar area and between those times you have some kind of warning to slow down!
It's easy if there are mums, cars and kid's everywhere, hell regardless of school zones you are normally going real slow anyway (even less than 40kph) but it's a bit of a far cry to expect people to automatically slow down when there ain't anyone around without some kind of prompt....
I mean we are expected now days to keep one eye ball on the road and one eyeball on the speedo, I don't have any more eye balls left to keep one on my clock too!

they call them the speedo it has a arrow on it to show you your speed

Willie,

Just let me say that I read the post about negative comments before I read this one.

I can see what you are getting at with a warning for school zones. I have often wondered how far away we are from some sort of transmiter being attached to speed signs that communicates with cars, adjusting the cruise control to the speed limit as posted on that sign, or the same percentage margin above or below the speed limit that the driver has set the cruise control to. These devices could be fitted with a timer so as to take into consideration the various times that these zones are operating.

I am not yet ready for a situation in which something outside the vehicle has any form of control of that vehicle. I agree with Dio to the extent that ultimately the driver must remain reponsible for what the vehicle does. I can see the court case now "It's not my fault the technology should have slowed me down!!" However, reliable technology which will assist drivers must be employed to help improve both vehicle and pedestrian safety,ABS and Traction Control are accepted examples of this. I recently watched a program about a device which monitors the drivers eyes and warns when they are blinking too slowly, a sure sign of driver fatigue, bring it on I say.

Duncs

LOL C'mon bro !!! Have'nt you got enough gadgets/doodads on that truck of yours yet ?

Good to see you're back and did'nt get lost in the Land of the Limey hahahaha

I think they are called a road angle or something like that from memory, there’s also the Bell NZ/AU Radar detector, which can’t be detected buy the Authorities He he he.

A. 410 out the window as you drive buy on the other hand would be a device to dispose of speed cameras LOL

This sort of feature (safety camera alert for fixed speed and red light cameras) is built into the version of Co-Pilot that I run in my PDA. Unfortunately in Sydney there are so many warnings announced by the device that you are effectively always looking for the "safety camera" as it is always going off

For me there are so many about that I ignore the co-pilot device ( have now actually turned this feature off) and keep my eyes open as usual. Would be different situation in different areas I am sure.

DEstinator and TomTom have the feature, and I use proximity waypoints on my GPS for the Geelong rd speed cameras basically cause when the traffic gets to them it slows down, and daft old me moves to the right lane and accelerates past the "slow" traffic under the camera at an encess speed almost 5kmh OVER the posted limit, I am such a irrresponsible driver, anyhoo, now wheren the traffic slows the GPS has just told me why and I sit and grumble and search for the .410 mentioned above

I use a recorder in the car for business and I have programmed it to play a message at 2.30 and then each half hour until 4.00pm. Cheap but helps a little.
Mobilr phones normally have alarms if a recorder is not available

Cheers

THANKS EVERYONE FOR YOUR ANSWERS . IT LOOKS LAS THOUGH NOBODY INCLUDES A WARNING FOR SCHOOL ZONES IN THEIR DEVICES ( UNLESS THEY HAVE A FIXED SPEED CAMERA ) .

I WILL HAVE TO MARK THEM AS I ENCOUNTER THEM AND BUILD UP MY OWN INFO.

WILLIE