GPS navigator used as a speed-limit alert ?

[superquag]

Many moons ago I used to have a GPS that would warn you that you were exceeding the speed limit for that area.
(it was an obscure brand that's long dropped off the map, so to speak, but map updates never loaded, so it was soon inaccurate in that department...)

Question for the cogniscenti, - "Is there currently, a popular / supported brand and model that does this ? - at a sane price?"

- I'm looking at either that, an ebay "GPS" (which is usually a UBD II driven...) speedo/alarm, or retro-fitting cruise controls to an offspring's car.... he's on the edge of losing his licence for a substantial time...

PO of 'The Lady Sarah', '95 Classic with working air suspension, now bored in a '98 Camry 3 litre Vs that flies... on the hint of petrol odour...

[travelrover]

I have a couple of Garmin’s that have configurable speed alarms. By configurable I mean there is a menu option to enable/disable this feature. Both these units would be at least five years old. No idea of the model numbers.

Also a friend dropped by during the week with a 4WD Mitsubishi Canter with large off road tyres and he uses a newer Garmin as his speedometer rather than recalibrate the factory unit to allow for the larger diameter wheels.

[Blknight.aus]

navman..

to the best of my knowledge all of the XXXlmt range do what you want, I have the 560 and IIRC everything in the 500 and higher range comes with traffic alert and free map updates.

It works surprisingly well except in melbourne peak hour when every road goes to black and the poor things go into a herring sandwich loop trying to get you off of the congested roads.

[Chops]

The Hema also does this. [bighmmm]

"You are over the speed limit", "You are over the speed limit",,, yeah yeah, hows **** off sound,, been told today have we dear,,, I know I have, every time I get in the car. [bigwhistle]
The only good thing about it, once you've gone over, it shuts up [thumbsupbig] ,but I do think you can program more info into it as well, as in secondary warnings. My old Garmin was the same.
The Hema also has all the camera info for speed, red light and distance in it which is good [thumbsupbig]
I'm guessing you can get updates etc when you need,, I'll find this out very soon as we've just bought a new phone and tablet and want them all to work in conjunction together,, this will prove interesting [bighmmm]

[p38arover]

In NSW, there is a free app called Speed Adviser that does this. Dunno if other States have something similar. It knows the speed limits in each area and flags when one exceeds it. It is annoying as one can't set the tolerance (at least one couldn't, it may have changed).

There are similar apps also available.

[Red90]

Any current Garmi Nuvi. Many apps.

[travelrover]

In NSW, there is a free app called Speed Adviser that does this. Dunno if other States have something similar. It knows the speed limits in each area and flags when one exceeds it. It is annoying as one can't set the tolerance (at least one couldn't, it may have changed).

There are similar apps also available.

I downloaded the speed adviser app. The first road I used it on has always been posted at 60kph (last 25 years at least) but the app was telling me 70! My garmin nuvi was telling me 60.

I think I will remove the app :-)

[Rok_Dr]

Waze and Here maps apps have a speed alert function.

Cheers

Steve

[Pedro_The_Swift]

I run Sygic through a A6 tablet,, its pretty accurate to the speed signs..

and to my surprise Mr Blears, showed all tracks used yesterday... [bighmmm]:ohyes:

[101RRS]

Most commercial GPS I have had show your speed in a dedicated box and when you are over the speed limit the background in the speed box changes to red.

Certainly did that on the Igos I had, the Synig I had and now with the 2 Garmin units I have.

[Aussie Jeepster]

We have current Garmin GPS units in all 4 cars, and they all warn when over the limit. I also have ones for the US and Europe, and they do the same.
Just make sure you get a XXXLMT model as the LMT indicates lifetime map and traffic updates.
I love them and they have saved me many times when I'm not sure what the speed limit should be.
Alan

[loanrangie]

Igo on my android head unit has speed alerts, you can set it to go off at the posted speed or at 5% over.

[Charliektm400exc]

If you have an iPhone, there is an app called metroview that does this, with fully configurable notifications.

Doesn’t have every road once you get to the country, but there don’t seem many missing, and you can notify them from within the app of correct limits, or errors.

not sure what current pricing is, but I paid $25 over 5 years ago, and I’m sure last time I heard it was way below that now, and I got (real) lifetime licences with constant map updates.

charlie

[67hardtop]

My navman gps warns of speeding. But only good if they havent changed the limits in the areas. Upgrade due soon.

[DiscoMick]

My Polaris GPS with Hema maps does this.

[4bee]

It could be a tad late if it fires off once you have gone over though.
Mazda's fires off an alarm beep 10km/hr before the limit is reached so you have prior warning. Oi loikes that.[bigsmile1]

[loanrangie]

It could be a tad late if it fires off once you have gone over though.
Mazda's fires off an alarm beep 10km/hr before the limit is reached so you have prior warning. Oi loikes that.[bigsmile1]

They give you 3% variance so your 5% is now 2 which is still under [wink11].

[4bee]

[Joh bjelkePetersen on] "Don't you worry about that", 'er indoors makes damn sure it doesn't go anywhere near that [JbP off][smilebigeye] When she isn't indoors that is.