GPS Thingy that gives out speed limit warnings?

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I had a mazda 2 courtesy car last week. On the way into work it twice gave little messages "you have exceeded the speed limit". Brilliant I thought. Ive set my speed limit to 35mph in my main car but obviously on any other speed limit Im in danger of forgetting/drifting too high. I believe the speed limit warnings were linked to the courtesy cars GPS so I wondered if after market GPS could be bought that have this function built in?
I realise I am the scum of the earth and shouldnt be driving because of my inability to read speed limit signs but notwithstanding that can anyone recommend one?

Ta.
 
Most standalone satnavs will warn of going over the speed limit, however my tomtom is quite often wrong, signing 50 limits as 40, which means you then learn to ignore it and end up not paying attention when you do genuinely miss a speed limit sign and it's telling you to slow down.

I also have the aguri skyway which is a laser detector and gps based speed camera warning system. It doesn't tell you you are speeding, but it warns you of any potential camera sites, blacklisted areas and so on

If you want full on speed warning, you'll need the snooper myspeed xl which warns you every time you speed. It uses a gps database for the speed limits again though, so it's not unfalible, it's only as good as the database is.

Currently I'm struggling to find a system that actually reads the limit signs like some cars do. I found one, but it look cheap and nasty and I didn't trust it at all.
 
DorsetDude said:
I had a mazda 2 courtesy car last week. On the way into work it twice gave little messages "you have exceeded the speed limit". Brilliant I thought. Ive set my speed limit to 35mph in my main car but obviously on any other speed limit Im in danger of forgetting/drifting too high. I believe the speed limit warnings were linked to the courtesy cars GPS so I wondered if after market GPS could be bought that have this function built in?
I realise I am the scum of the earth and shouldnt be driving because of my inability to read speed limit signs but notwithstanding that can anyone recommend one?

Ta.
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most gps systems have a setting where you can have a warning pop up vocally.
I have an older TomTom that allows you to set it.

bravo though for voicing it.
personally I think people that consider speeding ok until they get caught are the scum of the earth you speek off.
 
I bought a cheap TomTom from the classifieds here and it had speed limit zones built into the database.
As far as I could tell, it was spot on with the limits and it was accurate to within 50m or so of location.
No substitute for good driving, but a useful backup. I found it most useful for giving me a little 'ping' if I crept over 30.
 
Any android device and an app called Waze. I use it daily in my job and it rarely gets it wrong. I'm not saying never but it is rare. When your on the road most of the day it's very easy to misjudge your speed now and again, looking for hazards rather than speedo watching
 
I got caught 34 in a 30.. it had gone from 50 to 30 and I didn't notice straight away. Started braking when I realised and rounded a corner to be faced by a camera van. :mad:

I don't know why they don't have countdowns like you do for a slip road with 300 yard warnings when going from a 50 to a 30.
There is one just outside Abergavenny but I don't recall seeing them anywhere else.

I think my issue with the sat nav speed limits is I'm driving a truck and have a truck sat nav. It still thinks the speed limits on single carriageway is 40mph even though it changed to 50 about 2 years ago.
 
ChrisH said:
Any android device and an app called Waze. I use it daily in my job and it rarely gets it wrong. I'm not saying never but it is rare. When your on the road most of the day it's very easy to misjudge your speed now and again, looking for hazards rather than speedo watching
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I also use Waze on my phone, but I do find it is telling me a variation of speeds (+ or - 3mph at 70mph) even when the car is maintaining a constant speed on cruise control.
 
I would suspect that the cruise control is variable rather than the sat nav getting it wrong. However, we're aware that the good lord Henry's products are perfect so I doubt you'll agree...
 
Nod said:
I would suspect that the cruise control is variable rather than the sat nav getting it wrong. However, we're aware that the good lord Henry's products are perfect so I doubt you'll agree...
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If the cruise control varied that much, the needle would move on the speedo.
 
It's built into windows phone's navigation app, plus a facility to set the alarm level at a limit above or below the actual speed limit if desired.

Exceeding the speed limit doesn't make you scum any more than obeying the limit makes you a sheep.
 
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Just downloaded it to try. Any idea how much data it uses up? I don't have a huge allowance and don't want to keep emptying it.
 
TCR4x4 said:
Just downloaded it to try. Any idea how much data it uses up? I don't have a huge allowance and don't want to keep emptying it.
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Configure your destination while within home wifi range, you can even queue up later trips. It doesn't use much, just the initial map downloading uses a bit more.
 
TCR4x4 said:
Just downloaded it to try. Any idea how much data it uses up? I don't have a huge allowance and don't want to keep emptying it.
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"It" being Waze, presumably? I don't find it uses an excessive amount of data - and you can do some of the prep at home, as previously mentioned - but it does seem to be very hard on my phone's battery. Even with the phone plugged in to the car charger, I find that a drive of ~300 miles runs the battery down and the phone gets very, very hot in the process. I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S6. YMMV.
 
Yes I meant waze. I've been using it today, I can't do the "prep" offline as I don't know where I'm going until I get to work.
Seems pretty good so far, the traffic is far more reliable than the tomtom, and it also warned of a sneaky police car on the M4.
Phones been plugged in, and still on 100% battery, it's a reasonably new iPhone 7 though.

It's a shame they don't have a truck option, as some of the routing it did I had to ignore as it tried to send me down roads not suitable, but apart from that it's pretty good.
It's used 14.3mb of data since I installed it yesterday and I've driven for about 4 hours today with it on the entire time.
 
Some of the new fords have a road sign recognition camera and displays an image of the appropriate speed limit sign in the instrument cluster. Not played with it much myself but no reason why that couldn't be set to give an audible warning if you exceed the limit, might have been something like that?
 
bass_junkie83 said:
Some of the new fords have a road sign recognition camera and displays an image of the appropriate speed limit sign in the instrument cluster. Not played with it much myself but no reason why that couldn't be set to give an audible warning if you exceed the limit, might have been something like that?
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Mazda Service bloke seemed to think it was only in their cars with GPS. tempted to agree as I pulled out straight onto an urban road with lampposts so there were no 30mph signs and it still knew.
 
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