Re: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)

date posted 24th January 2003 15:38

Why not save yourself a lot of bother and drive within the speed limit?


>> Anything that actively detects speed cameras is illegal to use in this
> country. It's legal to posses
>> one (therefore sell and buy), but if you act on the information it
> gives you, then you've broken the law.
>> Get caught and it'll be confiscated.
>
> Bollocks. It is illegal to have a device that BLOCKS the speed cameras
> radar, it is NOT illegal to use a detector, it was BELIEVED to have been
> illegal for many years but a few years back cases were thrown out of
> court on this and one appeal taken to the high court confirmed that it
> IS legal. Technically it may still be 'illegal' in Scotland since we
> have not had a court case here yet but the applicable law is the same
> and so no police force would be stupid enough to try and prosecute (I
> was stopped while having the scanner on it and it was not even
> mentioned!).
>
> As memory serves it was believed that the detector constituted the
> interception of a message and so would be illegal, the courts however
> then said that the signals bounced from the radar could not in law be
> deemed to be a message since it was a simple signal.
>
>
>> What you can use are the GPS based versions. These have a db of all
> the speed cameras and their GPS
>> location reference. If you spot one it doesn't tell you about, you
> press a button to record the location #
>> then when you synch via the 'net, it uploads the one you've found for
> everyone else.
>
> I have been told that these are good but not tried one.
>
>> I'm really having to try very hard to avoid launching into a tirade on
> speed cameras, accident black spots,
>> revenue generation vs road safety, etc. etc. Trying so very hard...
> :)
>
> I understand that, accident black spots my foot!, they are proving to be
> revenue generating devices and that is why only certain councils up here
> use them. Aberdeenshire being one of the worst culprits but Angus being
> the ones who tried to hide them most the bastards.
>
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Best regards,

Ray

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