Very timely .....
A news item on Good Morning Britain this morning focusing on a new speed camera in Plymouth UK that has caught 23,000 drivers exceeding the 20mph speed limit.
A new 20mph speed camera in Plymouth was able to catch over 1,000 speeding road users within 24 hours of its test phase beginning.
www.visordown.com
People in the UK don't use apps?
Even Google Maps give speed camera warnings now. And I'm sure there is no shortage if speed camera apps or maps in the respective Apple and Google stores.
My one and only automatic enforcement camera was back in 2008 when I drove an hour to a place that I was not familiar with (smartphones were not around back then, I did not have a GPS unit and most people were still using printed Google Maps or MapQuest directions).
When I was researching which GPS unit to buy because there were many at the time from Garmin, TomTom, Magellan and others, I discovered this website which has a verifiable camera database updated weekly that I installed in my GPS:
http://www.poi-factory.com/poifiles/us/red-light-cameras
My Garmin GPS that I eventually bought that same year always warned me "Caution: you are now approaching a red light camera" or "Mobile Police radar ahead" depending on the type of enforcement camera present after I installed the database from the above website and I updated the database weekly.
I got my first smartphone in 2012 (Samsung Galaxy S2) and saw how accurate Google Maps was on the phone compared to the mapping provider that my Garmin GPS uses which was Navteq that I began searching for an immediate replacement.
I heard about Waze and tried it but did not like the interface at all (too cartoony), the warnings(too many "car on shoulder" warnings which bear no relevance because I only care about enforcement cameras and not it telling me that there is a car parked on the shoulder of a highway!), and I also did not like nor participate the social media aspect of it.
I later read an article from the New York Times about enforcement camera apps in Europe:
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/01/...d-cameras-meet-their-technological-match.html
After testing out a few mentioned in the article, I installed "RadarDroid Pro" because it allowed me to continue using Google Maps app and was simply an interface on top of Google Maps that I did not have to open a separate app; and it was also compatible with the camera database that I mentioned earlier which I uploaded to it.
At some point a few years down the line in 2014 when I got a new phone Nexus 5 (or maybe it was after I got the Google Pixel in 2016...don't remember the exact timing as I've used both phones), I noticed that Google Maps was now giving me those same warnings without having RadarDroid installed.
Since then, I'm a bit smarter now and always monitor my speed along with the speed of others in traffic. And if I do speed, it is never more than 5-10MPH above the posted speed limit.
Glad to see that POI Factory is still active and that they still update their database weekly though.
In general...again if one is going at the speed of traffic, it's not something that one should worry about.
If majority of traffic is driving faster than the posted speed limit and then they slow down all of a sudden to the speed limit, then there is likely an enforcement camera or a police speed trap nearby.