M3NW
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That’s a shame but it did get me searching and I found, for a very small fee, I can have TomTom mobile with live speed cameras on my iPhone.
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Speed cameras on maps
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Alex987854
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Using the app, I've never been past a mobile camera that wasn't on it. There have been a number of "Possible mobile camera" that weren't there.
WannabeOwner
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Just by-the-by on Waze : mobile cameras are not announced with much warning, its a frequently requested improvement, so risk that announcement is after you've been detected.
In Waze you can display a "Journey hazards" screen - a single strip with "Pins" for each Hazard indicating relative distance to/between them - significant-delay, accident, camera, etc. ... so keeping an eye on that does allow knowing if there is something coming up ... but its not exactly ideal
TeslaWaze allows display of Waze data on Big Screen, but personally I've never found it useful to know everything going on around me, but it seems to be popular with aficionados. I believe that also has "heat map" for mobile camera locations, so could help even if you are first to arrive.
WannabeOwner
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But how far away? Needs to be at least a mile away to actually be out of range and have time to react
ACarneiro
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Their whole business model is predicated on learning about who you are, what you do, what you like, where you go.... they do so insidiously and surreptitiously more often than not.
That is sinister to me. No thanks.
WannabeOwner
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Not sure they are going to learn much more about you from something like that ... that they don't already know.
Even if you don't use Google search engine, nor Chrome browser, nor YouTube, nor any other Google-owned-sites .. then the Google Adverts displayed on web pages and other "widgets" (e.g. websites using Google Analytics), will probably enable Google to gather almost as much information about you ... sadly.
ACarneiro
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You're confused with the rules in some European countries. In them the detector are forbiden, but a detector is the electronic device that using an antenna detects the signal that the speed trap sends to measure the speed. For example is Spain if you have the equipment, a detector, in your car although is off you will receive a huge penalty. The use of maps with the fixed speed cameras on them are allowed.
RichardTheKing
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I am doing the same with tomtom amigo and it is automatically coming up with the Bluetooth connection. You can use the phone speaker as well as the Bluetooth connection. Then when you entered in your car the apps will open automatically on the phone and give you all the warning you need for the speed cam, overspeed, road work, etc, via the Bluetooth and via the phone speaker.
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I believe that in France, map-based speed camera alerts are now forbidden, too. Car manufacturers have been removing them from their French maps, although I believe some satnav systems are skirting the law by highlighting larger areas in which speed cameras are present, rather than the actual camera locations.
Undecided_2
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Every car in the last few years collects huge amount of data on how the car is used. I checked the forms that I had to sign for a VW that I bought in 2020. It basically said that if I didn’t sign I couldn’t buy the car if I didn’t allow data to be shared with them.
I’m pretty sure that Tesla is the most connected car in the world right now. So we’re already giving them huge amounts of data. If you check Apples latest earnings report you’ll see that they are making billions off of Apple user data. They started out ‘providing anonymity’ features, removed billions from the likes of FB but they hold huge amounts of data on them and use it. The irony.
The U.K. and US governments holds even more data on us and has been tracking our usage online for years. Why we're taking the UK government to court over mass spying
We were never given any choice on our right to privacy.
I sleep alright about it as there isn’t anything I can really do and I just don’t care if they’re interested in my boring life.
Tesla is run by the same man who wants to implant brain chips in humansAlthough they are owned by Google, possibly one of the most sinister companies in the world (right behind Facebook) and if I have an alternative I will never use of of their products.
Hence my sticking to Tomtom
May be because it’s illegal to show speed cameras in some countries on the continent
. Personally my biggest miss is showing traffic congestion on roads on the display. I could route myself around most without actually setting a route in my BMW.
ACarneiro
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For the most part I’d agree, however a quick squirt to get past the annoying twonk sitting in lane 3 of 4 doing 65 - 70 - 65 in a 70 whilst overtaking nothing
♂.Thats a whole different debate and maybe one thats different in different countries. From my own experience I've been done for entering a 30mph limit at 38mph while slowing from a 60 limit. If I'd been zapped by the person in the van a further 40 metres along I'd have been doing 30, I can't help feeling that I may even have been still in the 60 zone but risk contesting it rather than take a speed awareness course? Hard to prove. If'd known it was a potential camera location I'd have slowed even sooner
There's another argument that "if" speed cameras are only placed at dangerous spots on the road which is what they claim, and some even call them safety cameras, then it's an extra signal to be more cautious in that area. A case of the limit is 30mph but that particular stretch is statistically quite dangerous. That could be argued as an advantage for the well informed. Not sure I completely buy the theory.
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