On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 09:21:26 +0100, MrBitsy was popularly supposed to have said:
There is a company, to which I am not in the least affiliated, whose
They sell fixed speed camera detection devices, for the bargain price of £80 apiece. The units need a Windows PC to keep themselves up to date, and there is a fee for this updating, but it isn't too large and the PC thing is easily solved.
Get on of those, and it'll warn you where the tax cameras are, and if you're likely to get nobbled by 'em. Alternatively get one of the other GPS-based anti-camera systems out there; there's plenty of 'em.
DO NOT get a radar detector; the government's dead-set on making 'em illegal 0. Also avoid Laser detectors; they're near useless and avoid laser jammers at all costs.1
Oh, and stick two fingers up at scamera operators mentally only; they get a bit sensitive about that sort of thing.
0 Typical Government initiative. Radar detectors detect the microwave radiation from Gatso units; not Truvelos (no radar there), not SPECS, nor even red light units; just Gatsos.
Contrast if you will the difference in cost between enacting and enforcing laws against microwave radiation detectors, and the cost of fitting a dummy microwave emitter to all currently non-functioning Gatso units. Reflect then on the luddite stupidity of the government that is seemingly unable to devise simple answers to simple problems.
1 Laser jammers jam the laser return signal. However, this is detectable and cars that seem to jam laser guns these days get their picture taken and number written down. Cars that seem to have a repeated habit of jamming lasers get a little visit from PC Plod and an examination for laser devices fitted to the front...
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