Njection and Garmin partner to identify speed traps
Njection is a website for guys like us. In addition to their forums and picture resources, they have compiled a database of more than 50,000 speed traps worldwide -- areas with high radar use and speed cameras -- that works with Microsoft Live Maps. Njection is now offering owners of Garmin GPS units the ability to download speed trap and red light camera information to their portable navigation units.
A SpeedTrap-enhanced Garmin portable GPS unit will be a great companion on a road trip, long commute, or while traveling in unfamilar areas. However, as sophisticated as the technology is getting, GPS still won't find your lost keys.
[Source: PRNewswire via Winding Road]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
VP 6:03PM (3/27/2008)
If they would allow current garmin owners to download this feature, i would be a garmin customer for life.
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Purifoy 6:14PM (3/27/2008)
I'm sure the auto insurance industry is cringing at the very idea of this.
Elliott Marshall 8:01AM (3/30/2008)
I am a Garmin customer and would like this feature to be downloadable. Garmin, are you listening?
Derek 6:15PM (3/27/2008)
SWEET!! Of course, then the cops will just buy the system and pick new "fishing holes".
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chris 7:24AM (3/31/2008)
Cops will love this. Move the speed trap a block over and you've caught anyone with the device.
The only reliable way to watch for traps is to watch for traps. Worked 100% then I got bored of speeding.
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paul34 6:44PM (3/27/2008)
Indeed. Watch out for the speed trap trap.
Juan 10:24AM (3/30/2008)
This is a no brainer! Speed limits are set for the safety of all...if you speed you are jeopardizing MY safety... (Avoid Speed Traps - DON'T SPEED)
amorak 6:16PM (3/27/2008)
Would the combination of the above indicies give me my trap speed? Does this mean Garmin has replaced my Friday night jaunts to the local 1/4 track?! Plus update with where I get my ET print out after the trap speed indicator.
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vintage 12:16PM (3/29/2008)
Get a GTech Pro. They're $20 on ebay or so, and very accurate if set up correctly.
Randy 2:38PM (3/28/2008)
Keeping it on the track makes it possible to save lives other than your own. Risk yourself, not others! Ya know? Just a thought.....
TwinTurbo3000GT 6:49PM (3/27/2008)
i like the idea and the spirit, but i think a radar detector is more cost effective and fool proof.
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kenshin 6:59PM (3/27/2008)
so we have portable gps units with mp3's, live traffic, live weather, and bluetooth, but how come no one's made a GPS w/radar & laser detection? i'm waiting for a gps w/ built in valentine 1
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len simpson 10:17PM (3/27/2008)
Re: lost keys---- our ID should be injected into our arm at birth, then each of our succession of cars could be recognition programmed.
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Alex Gray 5:32AM (3/30/2008)
Is this kind of feature new to the US? We've had these in the UK pretty much ever since sat nav/GPS route finders came into use for vehicles.
They don't generally cover mobile units though, just the relatively fixed roadside and intersection speed cameras.
Alex
Scotland
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John Vaughan 6:25AM (3/30/2008)
It's a dam shame you even have to worry about a TRAP. They don't get enough of you money with a tax on every thing but going to the bathroom..
COPS THAT TRAP= ARE THE SLIM !!!!!!!
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edhoovler 6:33AM (3/30/2008)
Why not just drive the speed limit?
Just Chuggin' Along 7:47AM (3/30/2008)
I've got a 100% sure-fire method of avoiding speed traps: I leave a bit early, stay reasonably close to the speed limit, and drive conservatively in the right lane. By the way, I just LOVE it when testosterone-charged hotshots (of either gender) zoom past me - they serve their purpose of attracting the radar away from MY car.
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Bill 7:56AM (3/30/2008)
Here's a clue.. Don't speed and you won't need it. Basically you are saying if you can afford it you are allowed to speed and take my life into your hands. Another case of let the wealthy do what they want and screw everyone else.
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Kiera 8:21AM (3/30/2008)
How about people just drive the speed limit instead of risking everyone's lives with these gadgets to tell you how to avoid the law? News flash: the limit's there for a reason - for YOUR and EVERYONE ELSE'S protection. If everyone would drive at least reasonably close to it, then there probably wouldn't be so many accidents.
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Adrian928S 8:26AM (3/30/2008)
Just a quick note; while on my way through Florida's Alligator Alley to Dade, I was enjoying a lovely 165mph cruise. I passed a FHP...instant coronary...but Florida cops,like most are under-trained , lazy, dumb asses. The SOB was either asleep, or thought he/she was clocking a low-flying aircraft.
If you need a hero, there's the FD...the real heros'. As a L.E. trainer for years, I can tell you that 75% of cops out there are imbeciles, have no working knowledge of the most basic laws as written, are drunks, and beat their wives. May God give them a pox in their head.
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