Hey guys,
i'm looking to install some sort of system in the car of mine to warn me about the current speed on the road or if there is a speed camera up ahead. I need some help as i have bought a garmin one that doesn't warn you at all. Has anyone tried the australian product 'speed alert pro', i'm having trouble finding reviews for the product.
Adding a Speed Limit / Camera Warning System to Car
Will Mcdonald on 05/04/2022 - 10:38
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It works if your on the younger side of life, but when your older they change the speed limits of the existing roads and you never realise as it always been that set speed for the last 20 years or so.
If only there was some system of warning, like extremely high visibility signage, with extensive training in how to read it provided as a condition of being allowed to drive.
Whelp.
If you’re getting on a bit shouldn’t you be driving 10 or more under the limit? Besides that, you’ve had plenty of experience to know when you are going faster than other traffic and how to understand the big white sign with the red circle with a number in it.
Amigo by tom tom. It is free and will boot up when bluetooth connects. https://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/sat-nav/amigo/
Waze = legal, radar detectors = not legal
Driving below speed limit = legal. Driving above speed limit = not legal.
Radar detectors also not very effective against lidar.
radar detectors = not legal
Not strictly the way it's written at least in VIC:
Road Safety Act 1986
No. 127 of 1986
Part 6 - Offences and Legal Proceedings
74 Offence to sell, use or possess anti-speed measuring devices
(1) A person must not own, sell, use or possess a device the sole or principal purpose of which is to prevent the effective use of a prescribed speed measuring device or to detect when a prescribed speed measuring device is being used.If you build a device whose principal purpose might be GPS navigation, hands-free phone calling, playing music, recording video footage etc, and detecting radar is one of its other functions, it seems to me that this would be acceptable.
I’m not sure how that would stand up. Detecting radar/lidar is a specific task requiring specific hardware that doesn’t do anything else. Just because it’s built in doesn’t mean it has another purpose.
Then again, autonomous vehicles are starting to use lidar/radar so maybe it’s a ‘vehicle detector’. But, how is it going to determine if it’s checking your speed or just checking if you are there?
Hopefully someone tries it, gets caught, and we can see the court proceedings
Yeah, very annoying people driving at 80 kph on eastern freeway Melbourne at non peak hours, max speed is 100. They shud be fined and taken off the road. This is made worst when they block left lane when one is exiting left of freeway
Annoying; probably.
But if you are on the eastern freeway, at non-peak hours, you likely have the opportunity to use any of the multiple lanes for your travel. If paying attention, you should be able to judge that a vehicle is slower ahead, and move accordingly.
To exit, you should be able to judge if you can safely pass a car that is in the left lane, prior to your exit, or you could just wait a minute behind that car for access to your exit to be available.
I have a TomTom Go 620, which I love because it has a very accurate speed reading and gives plenty of warning when you're above the speed limit and approaching speed cameras. Much more accurate than phone apps, but a lot more expensive.
When I first got my Android head unit I ran HERE We Go on it. It has offline maps with speed limits and can audibly alert you when you go over the speed limit. May have fixed cameras also, can't quite remember. Can use in driving mode to just get the alerts if not setting a destination. Haven't used it for a while though.
I remember using HERE Maps back in the days on Windows Phones and they had this feature. I thought it was pretty novel at the time.
I used HERE maps yesterday - on my iPhone (older car) - I like it better than Google Maps for not only current speed and current speed limits, and overspeed warnings, but also speed camera warnings.
not perfect and sometimes misleads directions and has glitches - but it's my go-to for driving around in the city where speed limits change all the time and I don't want another $400 fine from a combined red light speed camera - like I saw yesterday when a guy seeing the orange light about to go red, accelerated through the red light - that would have been a $400 fine had there been such camera there.
I have the feeling OP wants a "speed" warning.
As in "road signed speed" rather than speeding when no cops are around.Something to remind/warn "you are doing 53 in a 50 zone" or 103 in a 100 one.
That's what I understand.
Perhaps.
If so, it already exists. It is called a speedometer.Pretty sure you can set waze to beep if the speed limit is exceeded.
It is called a speedometer
It doesn't warn, it just shows … if you are looking attentively.
On the other hand a loud, warning, sound is an attention seeking option.
A loud warning sound is a distraction.
A driver should be attentive to all aspects of their driving.A driver should be attentive to all aspects of their driving.
Exactly.
But paying more attention to children potentially crossing the road far is more important than looking at a needle pointing at an scale.There is a reason why a "warning light" in the dashboard is bright and highly visible.
There is a reason why car have sound-making horns too.
@LFO: Of course, priorities.
But if you noticed children potentially crossing the road ahead, the first thing you should be doing is slowing down anyway.But if you noticed
Exactly.
And the key is "to notice".That is why the OP wants a fail-proof system to help "notice" current speed restriction/guide to be well within regulations.
Mitsubishi Pajero Sport has a built-in GPS with a speed camera warning beeps. This was a rental car, so I don't know any further details.
Which Garmin model did you get? My budget DriveSmart 51 (out dated) $100 model has the speed limit in the bottom left corner. It turns red if you drive over the limit. You can also set a tone when you exceed the speed limit by 0/5/10 etc. It also alerts you to fixed speed cameras (not mobile ones however). Only downside is that the updates aren't too frequent so any place with roadworks/road changes/development will most likely give the wrong speed. Around suburbs etc it's pretty darn accurate.
Option one: Get a tomtom GPS and Mount on your dashboard;
Option two: Get a Garmin dashcam and Mount it on your windscreen.
I have them both on my Civic RS and they work great. The garmin will also warn you when getting too close to the car in the front.
Go to a Mazda wrecking yard and pull out the Sat Nav from a Mazda 3 GT or Astina, even from 2015 onwards. It boots on start up, has all sorts of alerts including school zone, camera, over speed etc. You can also check out CX-5's and Mazda 6's with infotainment as they would be the same.
Look for mitsubishi 4wd on side of road, slow down. Go back to hooning a short distance after passing it.
My car had this feature built in (along with speed limit sign recognition) and turned it off pretty quickly as it started to get annoying particularly when it had incorrect speed limit data (or had read the back of a truck / bus / sign incorrectly). That being said, there are smartphone apps as well as standalone GPS units and dash cams which have this feature if you really want it… but be careful what you wish for!
where do people get their licenses from where they have trouble reading speed limit signs?
Stick to the speed limit posted and you won't be a scumbag. Sounds like you have plans on being one to a lot of people. May you need a licence review.
There are probably a few drivers who are driving at the (maximum) speed limit through flooded streets in Sydney today, and thinking that it must be ok to do that.
Drivers should be taught to drive to the conditions, up to the (maximum) speed limit. If they can't do that without some reliance on some device or warning or beeping or sirens, they shouldn't be on the road.
ah - whatever floats your SUV …
Try going the (profanity) speed limit ay. What a trip.
Most new GPS systems can warn you if you go above the speed limit.
Let's calculate the time saving by speeding by 5km/h using 60km/h as speed and 30km as distance.
Speed = Distance/Time
60 km/h =30km/t1 => t1 = 30 min
65 km/h = 30km/t2 => t2 = 27.7 minSavings is about 2 min. It is just not worth it.
Stay under or on the speed limit. You may save a lot more than just money and demerit points.Thanks for this. Simple maths always shuts people up in these arguments.
The Radarboot app warns you of cameras in the area.
Here Maps can tell you the speed limit of every street you're driving on.
Both free.
In NSW there is an official 'Speed Advisor' app by Transport for NSW. It has the speed limit for all roads in NSW and does school zone times as well.
In Modern Toyota's they have Road Sign assist that tells you the speed limit sign on your dash. Uses the front-camera instead of GPS
Waze.
Sygic. It's got 3D building and easy to follows route. Free monthly updates.
google really needs to stop supporting waze/gmaps and make another with all the positives inlcuding from apple maps and OSM
Put a UHF radio in your rig and listen to the truckie channel for a heads up on speed cameras etc, the only problem is after a week of listening via osmosis you'll be f'ing and blinding with the best of them in your general conversation.
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Why bother? I’m sure that more than 90% of the time I’m driving familiar roads, I know the limits of those roads. Therefore warnings aren’t necessary the majority of the time.
For the odd occasion I’m going somewhere unfamiliar I could call up waze. TBH I can’t even be bothered doing that. I use my eyes for he speed limit and checking actual speed.