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The Blackspot Road Angel is a GPS-based device that compares your
location and direction of travel with a database of known fixed speed camera
sites (including the dreaded SPECS average speed zones (bar stewards!)). It has
its good and bad points, but on balance AR7E recommend the Road Angel if you are
worried about stumbling over speed cameras on unfamiliar roads.
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Key Benefits
- Up to date database of all known fixed-location speed monitoring sites.
Includes recognised accident blackspots too.
- Display includes an accurate speedometer - handy if you haven't sorted out
a bike computer or other accurate rate-of-knots device.
- Audible warning can be heard when 'making good progress' - even with
ear-defenders on.
- Now contains added nuts. Actually a 'golf ball' laser detector for mobile
sites. Jury is out on this one - see drawbacks below.
Key Drawbacks
- LCD display is too teeny weeny. The type of alert indication (fixed
camera, blackspot, average speed zone etc.) is microscopic and hard to read
at the best of times - try reading it when 'pressing on'...
- Flashing red backlight is invisible in strong sunlight and overwhelming at
night. Pants!
- No audible alert when satellite reception is blocked (i.e. by trees,
cityscape buildings etc.). This is a silly omission - imagine you are
pressing on, or making good progress (or walking the dog, watering your
trout - any euphamism you choose) and you get zapped because the Road
Angel has gone off in a huff. How cheesed off would you be???
- Laser-alert - Jury is out. Common consensus is that the laser sites will
have nabbed you before you've reacted to the warning. Only useful if it
picks up some scatter from some other poor b*gger who's been zapped further
up the road.
Installation Instructions
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