Tom Tom Speed Camera Update



Across the majority of the developed world, a fair proportion of rate limit-related law enforcement has moved from individual hands to the realm of machines. However, in which a human traffic policeman might give you the benefit of the doubt if you don't slow down fast enough when the limit falls on a road, a camera will only record you overstepped the mark, and that is it. So a good understanding of rate limits and in which the automated systems enforcing them are situated is vital for the modern driver. This is where TomTom's Speed Cameras comes ; it is pretty much all of the app does.

TomTom's Speed Cameras is an app for iOS just, like the company's fully featured sat-nav program. It is even more restrictive, however, because a cellular data connection is a must. So it runs on the iPhone 3GS and above or one of the 3G iPads. It's not compatible with the iPod Touch or wifi-only iPads. The app itself is free, but it's completely useless by itself. You'll have to obtain a subscription, which costs #16.99 a calendar year, although a introductory offer of one month for #1.49 is available.

With the app installed and a subscription applied, the interface couldn't be simpler. During regular driving, a stylised road graphic fills the display, using a speed limit sign on the right along with your current rate on the left. If you are within the limitation, the speed shows in white, but if you exceed the limitation it changes to light reddish then a darker reddish. We noticed that Speed Cameras was not aware of the limitation in some suburban side streets, except where this was reduced to 20mph. However it should be rather obvious the default rate is 30mph in residential neighbourhoods, and all significant streets were detected correctly.

The most important function of the app, naturally, comes into play when you're approaching a speed camera. This can be a fixed camera, a mobile camera, a traffic light camera, or an average rate camera, although you can also turn at least one of these off independently. As you near the camera, a warning beeps and a space countdown begins at the base. There is also an icon to show Run Google maps and Tom Tom app side by side you which type of camera to look out for. Occasionally, cameras are detected that aren't in your current route, but just around a nearby turning, which is a particularly handy safeguard if you turn into a side street that also involves a decrease in speed limit.

A much more useful feature is how average speed zones are introduced. Instead of merely telling you to maintain below the limitation, Speed Cameras keeps track of your existing average inside the zone. Therefore, should you end up accidentally going too fast at any point, you can peg your speed back enough to keep the average legal. For long average zones, this is going to be very handy indeed.

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