13-07-2017, 01:01 PM
The speed trap thing is interesting as it isn't illegal for your Satnav to tell you where all the fixed cameras are and mine even warns me of the areas where mobile traps are used.
In France, however, it is now illegal and I note that my Garmin seems to have them switched off by default but then springs into action again when I cross the Belgian border.
Unlike the prominent Gatso and Truevelo detectors which are reasonably visible even in countries that don't paint them yellow, the French were always devious!
Before the Satnav warnings were made illegal there was one on the E40 running up the coast from Calais that was almost invisible - you could only identify it when travelling on the other carriageway if the light was reflected by the camera lens. It was in the central reservation and looked like a little wooden box covered in brown sacking!
A couple of years ago I was travelling south on the E40 towards Dunkerque when everything dropped to a crawl. I was in the inside lane and happened to glance in my mirror as we crawled past the entrance of an off-slip with one of those French pass-either-side bollards that look like an upturned green dustbin and was surprised to find I was looking directly into the lens of the camera hidden inside the bollard with a hole cut out in the back!
In France, however, it is now illegal and I note that my Garmin seems to have them switched off by default but then springs into action again when I cross the Belgian border.
Unlike the prominent Gatso and Truevelo detectors which are reasonably visible even in countries that don't paint them yellow, the French were always devious!
Before the Satnav warnings were made illegal there was one on the E40 running up the coast from Calais that was almost invisible - you could only identify it when travelling on the other carriageway if the light was reflected by the camera lens. It was in the central reservation and looked like a little wooden box covered in brown sacking!
A couple of years ago I was travelling south on the E40 towards Dunkerque when everything dropped to a crawl. I was in the inside lane and happened to glance in my mirror as we crawled past the entrance of an off-slip with one of those French pass-either-side bollards that look like an upturned green dustbin and was surprised to find I was looking directly into the lens of the camera hidden inside the bollard with a hole cut out in the back!
