speed cameras

Bennai · 07-14-2004, 12:05 PM

sorry if this has already been posted guys
but i was wondering is it possible to make like a snooper sort of device to locate and warn u if speed cameras are about and how fast you should be going etc. etc.
ppl living in the uk will understand wot i mean there everywhere over here

mobileh1 · 07-14-2004, 12:10 PM

Drive at or below the speed limit, wouldn't that be easier?

Quote: Originally Posted by Bennai

sorry if this has already been posted guys
but i was wondering is it possible to make like a snooper sort of device to locate and warn u if speed cameras are about and how fast you should be going etc. etc.
ppl living in the uk will understand wot i mean there everywhere over here

bertybassett · 07-14-2004, 12:16 PM

There is a speed camera database on the internet, I've suggested many times that someone should code a program using the GPS aerial and this database.

Imagine your car stopping the MP3 player and shouting "your coming up to a 30mph Gatso reduce speed by 10mph or face a fine."

Now if only I could code.....

bertybassett · 07-14-2004, 12:18 PM

@mobileh1

No not in the uk it wouldn't. There even talking of fines for going over the limit by 1mph, rough or what.

Anyway its been shown that people with camera detectors make safer drivers!!! Why I've no idea.

mobileh1 · 07-14-2004, 12:30 PM

The danger is watching for camera and not for cars. I dont mean to sound like im some moralizing dick, I just think some speed limits arent a bad idea. 1mph is rough though.

people might drive better with camera detectors for the above reason, they are free to look at the road not for cameras. Just a thought.

My car generally *cant* break many speedlimits!

Quote: Originally Posted by bertybassett

@mobileh1

No not in the uk it wouldn't. There even talking of fines for going over the limit by 1mph, rough or what.

Anyway its been shown that people with camera detectors make safer drivers!!! Why I've no idea.

bertybassett · 07-14-2004, 12:35 PM

In the uk limits are set at 40mph for daul carriage ways, 30mph for main roads and now 20mph for side roads. What next? Cars will be going so slow they be in danger of causing accidents.

Don't even get me started on speed bumps and humps and traffic calming measures...........

vcbb5 · 07-14-2004, 12:41 PM

http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/frodoplayer/27688-destinator-frodoplayer-bearing-speed-safety-camera-warning.html

bertybassett · 07-14-2004, 12:54 PM

wow wow wow that's all I can say. I need this now. Off I go to get destinator now.

Confused · 07-14-2004, 12:57 PM

berty,

Hope it will help ya

I've got some more ideas on how to improve it, but all my coding prowess is being directed at AIMEE, and when I get round to implementing GPS i shall be implementing these new ideas (and then after that i'll probably release them as stand-alone for MediaCar and FrodoPlayer

)

Garry

Spaghetti · 07-14-2004, 01:12 PM

I have no problems with speed limits in built up areas, and I can just about tolerate speed humps. What I can't stand is those ******* chicanes popping out from the side that local councils in the UK have started to implement. These are a stupid idea, especially in Britains narrow side streets, taking up hard to find parking spaces. If one were built right outside my house, I'd be pretty ****ed off. Some of the locations of these are ill-thought as I've seen these built barely yards from main road junction. A driver turns into a T-junction, then has to wait as a car may be passing the other way, and in turn so would the driver behind him, spilling congestion onto the main road. ******* ridiculous.

Bravellir · 07-14-2004, 05:07 PM

lol

It’s absurd. Here, a few years ago, mayors started building roundabouts like crazy in some smaller cities. Sometimes they are like every 100 mts and in places without junctions

. And the ugliest part is that most of them are in roads so narrow that two cars can hardly fit. Guess someone is trying to help the nitro business

mobileh1 · 07-14-2004, 05:38 PM

I thought it was

30mph in built-up areas - which is higher than the USA
60mph for single carriageways
70mph for dual carriageways

These are for cars and found on the police999.co.uk wek site?

They are all higher than the USA.

Have these changed then?

Quote: Originally Posted by bertybassett

In the uk limits are set at 40mph for daul carriage ways, 30mph for main roads and now 20mph for side roads. What next? Cars will be going so slow they be in danger of causing accidents.

Don't even get me started on speed bumps and humps and traffic calming measures...........

Spaghetti · 07-14-2004, 06:02 PM

mobileh1, yes you're right.
These are official speed limits as set out in the highway code, but local governing bodies are allowed to impose whatever speed limits they deem necessary. For example, 30 in a built up area would seem reasonable, but outside a busy school it's still not enough. I'm pretty sure some speed limits outside schools are based on time of day. I think single carriageways used to be 60, I'm not sure, but I know of one in my town that was lowered from 50 to 40 after repeated fatalities.

mobileh1 · 07-14-2004, 06:15 PM

You live in a very beautiful part of the country. I once dated a girl from a place called Honley somewhere near Huddersfield. Not related to these speed limits. it sounds like things are getting a little draconian over there.

Quote: Originally Posted by Spaghetti

mobileh1, yes you're right.
These are official speed limits as set out in the highway code, but local governing bodies are allowed to impose whatever speed limits they deem necessary. For example, 30 in a built up area would seem reasonable, but outside a busy school it's still not enough. I'm pretty sure some speed limits outside schools are based on time of day. I think single carriageways used to be 60, I'm not sure, but I know of one in my town that was lowered from 50 to 40 after repeated fatalities.

Spaghetti · 07-14-2004, 06:27 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by mobileh1

You live in a very beautiful part of the country. I once dated a girl from a place called Honley somewhere near Huddersfield. Not related to these speed limits. it sounds like things are getting a little draconian over there.

Oh yeah, I know Huddersfield.
"Draconian" is nothing compared to THIS!!
Government wants to abolish road tax and replace it with pay as you drive scheme - depending on how much they charge, it could work out well for some people, but not others. Of course, we'll still have to pay our 90% fuel duty (boo!). Oh yeah, and how are they going to implement this? Satellite tracking for EVERY car of course!!!!

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