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disabling speed alerts
ronh
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Hi all - now that it is illegal to use speed camera alerts in France (stupid idea - but what can you do) can anyone avise me how I can disable this feature on the Nuvi 1490. Don't want to risk that sort of fine.
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They are SAFETY CAMERAS not speed cameras :wink: as I understood it if you do an update via Garmin it will disable the cameras or change them to a different description like danger area or something.
Anyway the fine is supposed to be €11 and as they cannot touch your GPS it seems impossible to enforce !
If you get flashed by a static camera as a foreigner they do not follow up the offence (at the moment) the ones to look out for are the mobile Gendarmes hiding in the bushes and fields at the side of the road !
Make sure that you have your Hi-vis jackets, one for each person in the car available for use without getting out of the car, your breathalysers, bulbs, warning triangle, first aid kit, these things they do check.
Bob
There was no warning for fixed static speed cameras, neither as a camera or a "danger zone" however to my surprise I did get a lot of warnings of mobile speed camera locations which I did not expect !! Not sure how legal this is and maybe Garmin need to look at what they are providing !!?
Bob
My 1490T has all three of these right up to date. I have been in France for the last two days and certainly had two "Dangerous Zones" warnings flagged up.
One of these was on a "D" road running down to Montreuil-sur-Mer and the other on the E40 between the E15 and Coquelles - this is running westbound in the outskirts of Calais.
It would be far better if Garmin removed the information from the French maps completely.
IF you've updated your GPS software (I think from 5.90 onwards) then your GPS is legal in France. It's also legal to have 'dangerous zones' flagged up, and that is now what Garmin supply.
I also understand that the French police cannot simply confiscate, or even examine, your GPS unless they have good reason to do so ... never-the-less provided you haven't loaded any 'third party' camera warnings then you will be within the law if your software is up to date.
However, really it sounds like you're concerned that the police will just assume that you have speed alerts on your GPS regardless of what you do. And evidently your language skills aren't good enough to explain.
Maybe it would be best to just not use a GPS in France if you're concerned about this?
Garmin/Garmin/POI/FranceCyclopsSample.gpi
after taking a backup of course.
You need a Satnav just as much in France as you do anywhere else.
In fact more so so you can be amused and confused by the name pronunciations.