Download Speed Trap Locations to Your GPS
Nothing puts a damper on your vacation travel like a speeding ticket, but if you use an in-car GPS, you have a powerful tool for being alerted to the presence of speed traps and traffic light cameras in advance as you drive. I recently started a free subscription to Trapster, a terrific service that provides a full-featured clearinghouse for reporting, locating, and downloading speed trap and traffic light camera information. Using trapster's interactive online map, I was able to quickly highlight the specific route I'll be driving on the way back from a beach vacation (331 miles). This revealed six known speed traps and three traffic light cameras along my route. After I saved my route, I used trapster's built-in "export file for nav device" utility to save the speed trap and camera locations as a custom points of interest file in my GPS. Trapster may also be set up to provide real-time mobile phone text message alerts for specific routes and regions. Watch for a full review here.
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Or one could simply drive the limit and avoid the entire hassle of managing the location of cameras and traps….
(Response to EasyLogin)
Yes, you go ahead and drive the speed limit and when you are killed from behind by someone keeping up with traffic, we can all celebrate your demise.
Yes, drive the speed limit, and if traffic really goes faster, be sure be within the “herd”, then, armed with speed trap information, be SURE to ignore the other drivers and slow down whatever speed they are going. Almost NOBODY gets hit from behind while going the speed limit, the impatient jerks either honk or pass you while flipping you the finger for obeying traffic laws. If anyone does hit you from behind, their insureance is really going to go up as its their fault, and if done while speeding, a worse ticket and a huge insurance increase.
The day of the hot rods is OVER whether fools know it or not. Most people who really speed are in a hurry for no reason whatsoever other than immaturity and stupidity.
Dave Ladely
The day of the hot-rods is not over. Considering there are now street legal cars making over 500-600 hp and capable of over 200hp, hot-rodding is still very much alive. To think otherwise, is to be naive and foolish.
Looking forward to using Trapster with my Garmin 765 and my supercharged Corvette.
Driving the speed limit does not really work in a typical “speed trap”. They change the speed limit unexpectedly with little or no notice. That’s what makes it a “trap”