Re: Speed trap detection

["Graham Howe" <graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Phil Harris" <phil@a...> wrote:
>
> > > Thanks to all these great little gadgets i've still got a
> > clean license -
> > > which can be a bugger with the old car topping out around
> > 175mph - but
> > > never
> > > on the highway of course ;)
> >
> >
> > Still clean here too, and no gadgets used ;-)
>
> Only three left to get rid of here and they'll be null and void at
the end
> of this year...
>
> ...did have 12 at one point! ;-)
>
> Phil

Up until 2 years ago I had never been caught despite having had a
fast car and occasionally making good use of it ;-)

However I now spend most of my time in a crappy old Scenic driving
to and from work through the length of Buckinghamshire.
Unfortunately my daily commute takes me through several 30 zones and
past 4 speed cameras. I have passed each camera 1000 times and three
times too quickly (37, 38 and 39). So I'm now on 9 points and will
be for another 2 years.

Now you might well ask how I managed to get caught as I know the
cameras are there (one I have been caught by twice now!) But the
reality is that on my incredibly boring commute each day my
concentration does occasionally lapse. It's not an excuse, it's a
fact of life (mine at least) that I can't sit in a car for over an
hour on a journey I know off by heart and not think about other
things :-(

So what I need is something to remind me about these fixed cameras
so that I have a chance to just check that I haven't crept over the
limit. I don't have the car or the road to worry about the sort of
speeds that might interest plod with a laser, for me it is simply
the fixed cameras I need to avoid.

>From the advice given it seems like the Road Angel would be best
because of the more obvious warning, but then I miss out on the only
excuse I have to get an iPaq and SatNav ;-) Either way I need
something soon as I want to get myself a nice second hand XJ8 or XJR
and I'm sure that will only increase the possibility of me being
caught!

So, is there any way the iPaq based solution can be made more
intrusive or is there really no chance of me noticing it (I do like
to have music on reasonably loud at times)? For example can the
screen flash or something as well as the voice?