Detectors - again

[mmfb]

Hi all, sorry to labour on this point ....hopefully I can add a new angle to an old subject...

Im in the market for one of these devices, but none of the threads ive found are giving me the arguments for or against that I think are valid or applicable for me.

Ive searched the forum and read the reviews and I have to say - "Whats the point in a GPS camera detector ?" . That question is one i feel like yelling! Surely everyone has missed the point here?

The real benefit of the detectors in my opionion is the ones that can DETECT and not read from an out of date database of "hotspots". It really doesnt matter how recently you updated your device, it is still out of date, and cannot DETECT the hazrds that are there. The mobile cameras probably nab more people than the fixed ones do becuase we all see the fixed ones and know where they are....Also, if a camera is out of film/service, it wont tell you this unlike a detector which will do. Straight away Im seeing serious design flaws with the idea of GPS detector.

Personally I think this is a major design flaw on the scale of putting hydrogen in a Zepplin. I also think its a total con that somehow became a successful product.

One of my collegaues was a traffic police sergeant [sp?] in her previous incarnation, she said to me (after Id been caught and banned) that the laser detectors on modern hand held police cameras are only limited in the distance they are effective at by the horizon. The horizon is 3 miles away.

Now, I just read that the Snooper S5R can detect lazer and radar at 2 miles. How many roads are there where you wouldnt spot the copper, and he could get you in that dastardly mile that exists between his range and your range ? Not many i would think.

So....my point and questions are...

Why is everyone so keen on GPS (Road angel etc) and why do people not rate Snoopers so much when they seem to be the only real solution ?


Thanks
Mark

 

[Scotty_b]

I run a snooper S4 neo with RLD100 and think its a great bit of kit. I mainly use it now for informing me of the speed limit, most roads don’t have the speed limit in obvious places so you can see what your supposed to be doing, I know you supposed to look at the lampposts etc but I don’t have time to work out what they class as tall or not!

I must admit that the RLD unit doesn’t seem to work that well as ive been past a few camera vans and its hasn’t thrown anything up, this could be due to dirt on the lens, but then again ive never heard it go off!

The snooper units how ever don’t know if the gatso’s are out of film so im not sure where you have got that from, but as a rule of thumb I will never ever go through a camera (even if I know its off) faster than the speed limit.

I while back I went to sell my snooper as I thought it wasn’t working, had it out of the car for a month and put it straight back in, yes its annoying sometimes but its saved me a fair few times.

 

[MarkE]

My Origin b2 came with a laser detector. I doubt it could pick up a signal from 2 miles away, but then I also doubt that a policeman could accurately target your car at that range.

They've also released a radar detector for the b2.

GPS boxes will warn you of a camera location, even if the camera isn't active, true. However, they won't warn you of cameras on the opposite side of the road, cameras on entirely different roads to the one you're on, automatic doors on shops or any of the other "false" alarms that detectors suffer from.

 

[mmfb]

Scotty B you are absolutely right - Im not sure where that bit of nonsense came from about them being out of film - I simply meant out of action - i.e. switched off. Must have been one of those days today.

Scotty B & Mark E- thanks for the info. False alarms strike me as nothing more than an annoyance, and the idea of the detector not picking up on a mobile camera worries me - its exactly to alert me to these mobile traps that I want a detector for...

Back to the drawing board I think...mmm...

....more stealth is needed me thinks

thanks again,
Mark

 

[Scotty_b]

There a good idea but i dont want to s=test mine to its limits!