RE: [OT] Radar Detection

["Ward, David" <DAvid.Ward@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Phil,

Totally agree, it's also easy to have a false sense of security about the
directions the Satnav gives you!
It's always worth having at least a rough sense of where you are going and
to read the signs along the way

Dave



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Phil Harris [mailto:phil@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: 21 September 2005 14:45
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Radar Detection
>
>
>
>> With the satnav POI addons It can depend which POI databases
>you install
>> and enable.
>
>Yes, I understand that...
>
>> It sounds as though you installed the one large database that
covers
>> everything Specs, Gatso, and temporary
>
>Fixed and Mobile.
>
>> If you install the serperate ones you can then decide not to
include
>> temporary cameras (which tend to include favourite spots for
>camera vans
>> and cars)
>>
>> I don't know about the other systems, but at least with the
>satnav ones
>> you can add or delete POIs at will.
>
>My problem with these databases is that they are just lists of
>locations
>and - usually - with a reasonable level of awareness and
>observation you
>can pick off most (s)cameras and quickly adjust your progress to a
>suitable rate - if you can't then you were driving too damn
>fast for what
>you can see anyway. (And before you think I'm being all
>"holier than thou"
>on this I'm honestly not - all the points I've had in my past were well
>deserved and are now all gone however if I ever do get my "weekend
toy"
>there'll be a Road Angel going into it.)
>
>It's just far to easy to get lulled into a false sense of security that
>just because the satnav hasn't bonged then you're OK (or
>similarly you get
>so used to it going off that you start ignoring it).
>
>Phil
>
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