Tomtom Go 50 Speed Camera
Around most of the developed world, a reasonable proportion of rate limit-related law enforcement has transferred out of human hands to the realm of machines. But where a person traffic policeman might provide you the benefit of the doubt if you don't slow down quickly enough when the limit falls on a street, a camera will only record that you overstepped the mark, and that's it. Therefore a good understanding of rate limits and where the automated systems employing them are located is vital for the modern motorist. This is really where TomTom's Speed Cameras comes ; it's pretty much all the app does.
TomTom's Speed Cameras is a program for iOS only, such as the organization's fully featured sat-nav app. It is even more restrictive, however, because a cellular data connection is a necessity. So it runs to the iPhone 3GS and above or among the 3G iPads. It is not compatible with the iPod Touch or even wifi-only iPads. The program itself is free, but it is entirely useless on its own. You will need to purchase a subscription, which costs #16.99 a year, although an introductory offer of one month to get #1.49 is accessible.
Together with the program installed along with a subscription implemented, the interface could not be easier. During routine driving, a stylised street graphic fills the display, with a speed limit sign Google maps with road speed on the right and your current speed on the leftside. If you are inside the limit, the speed shows in white, but if you exceed the limit it affects to light reddish then a darker reddish. We noticed that Speed Cameras wasn't aware of the limit in certain suburban side roads, except where this had been reduced to 20mph. However it should be fairly obvious the default rate is 30mph in residential neighbourhoods, and all significant roads were detected correctly.
The main function of the program, naturally, comes into play when you are approaching a speed camera. As you near the camera, then a warning beeps and a distance countdown starts at the base. There's also an icon to show you which sort of camera to look out for. Occasionally, cameras have been detected that aren't on your current path, but just around a nearby rotation, which is a particularly handy safeguard in case you turn into a side road which also involves a decrease in speed limit.
An even more useful feature is how average speed zones are introduced. Instead of just telling you to maintain below the limitation, Speed Cameras keeps track of your current average inside the zone. So should you end up unintentionally going too fast at any stage, you can peg your speed back to keep the average lawful. For very long average zones, this is going to be very handy indeed.