[DeTomaso] NPC but relevant no less to driving my Pantera - GPS-navigator

[Dick Koch]

Now this is a NPC discussion that in my opinion is very interesting (in 
lieu of the ongoing Jiffy BS).

It would be interesting to find out more from folks on this list which 
GPS manufacturer they prefer and what software add ons may be available 
to chart police activities.

I have been looking at the Garmin 650 or 680.

Any advice/input?

Dick Koch - Atlanta

Charles McCall wrote:
> Interesting, but I see that as being basically an unenforceable law. 
>
> If you have a dedicated GPS radar detector, I can see how that device could
> be illegal. But the majority of the GPS radar warning systems are add-ons to
> a navagation program. Mine uses TomTom and a Points of Interest file - it
> beeps when I approach the "POI" of a fixed radar. A police officer would
> have to be fairly computer literate to find the database on my PDA. Since
> the file name is gibberish, he'd have to activate one POI at a time and see
> if any coincide with a fixed radar. 
>
> Theoretically possible but not real likely. 
>
>
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] En
> nombre de Thomas Tornblom
> Enviado el: Monday, 27 August, 2007 1:32 PM
> Para: Jäckel+Partner
> CC: detomaso at realbig.com
> Asunto: Re: [DeTomaso] GPS-navigator
>
> Jäckel+Partner skrev:
>   
>> Thomas,
>> Good stuff, we had it over here as well, but now it is strictly 
>> forbidden in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Italy. If you get 
>> caught with a GPS like that, they take the GPS and you get a ticket, 
>> that is way more, you can ever get for speeding. No credit cards are 
>> accepted.
>> No cash, they take your car until you can pay cash.
>>     
>
> Oh, didn't know that.
>
> Here the data base with the camera coordinates are available from the
> equivalent of DOT.
>
> So far any pictures also must show the drivers face and they match the
> picture against the owners or his/her familys drivers license photos. If
> they can't match, then the just throw it away.
>
> There is talk about making the owner responsible, just as in many other
> countries, but that goes against the justice principles here so some serious
> law changes are required for that. The sun visor is good protection against
> tickets :-)
>
> The camera flashed for me as well, but only one of us got a ticket. I had
> the visor down as my GPS had warned me about the camera.
>
> It was just a minor speeding, 96 kph where 90 was the limit.
>
>   
>> Roland
>>     
>
> Cheers,
> Thomas
>
>   
>> I had intended the message to go on the Swedish list.
>>
>> I was just pointing out that it seems there's a fair deal on a GPS 
>> navigator this week, which includes speed cam warning and a lot of 
>> other features. I have recently upgraded my old navigator to the same 
>> software and is pretty pleased with it.
>>
>> The background is that early this summer a bunch of Panteras were out 
>> cruising some nice back roads to the coast, where we had dinner, and 
>> on the way home some of us happened to get caught by a tin paparazzi, 
>> and one got a ticket in the mail a few days later. The amount was 
>> about the same as the GPS would have cost.
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