Dept Of Transport say, in the Road safety Bill-they will ban detectors & Jammers and the carrying of them.Job done within the year.

They didnt tell the Lawyers for the manufactorers !!!!!!

Ps--hope you understand post

Any chance they'll also ban Gatsos and handhelds as well?

Heres a related story from Pistonheads

DO ALIENS MAKE YOU SPEED?

Friday 3rd December

They do in Northumbria. Check out the excuses

Aliens ate my hamster isn't quite it -- but it's close. The Northumbria Safety Camera Partnership -- the body which runs the county's speed camera business -- has just published its top 10 excuses for being Gatsoed. At the top of the list is a trance induced by aliens, followed by blaming passing aircraft for triggering the camera.

The list comes from the excuses penned by motorists trying to avoid the dreaded three-points and an SP30 penalty.

Northumbria Safety Camera Partnership manager Ray King said: "Some drivers seem to think that if they tell a good enough story then they will get off, which unfortunately rarely works. It is quite amazing the lengths some drivers will go to to avoid �60 and three points, when really the alternative is extremely simple - keep within the speed limit."

The top ten list is:

• I had passed out after seeing flashing lights, which I believed to be UFOs in the distance. The flash of the camera brought me round from my trance.
• I was in the airport�s flight path and I believe the camera was triggered by a jet overhead, not my car.
• I had a severe bout of diarrhoea and had to speed to a public toilet.
• There was a strong wind behind my car which pushed me over the limit.
• My friend had just chopped his fingers off and I was rushing the fingers to hospital.
• The vibrations from the surfboard I had on the roof rack set off the camera.
• I had to rush my dying hamster to the vets.
• A violent sneeze caused a chain reaction where my foot pushed down harder on the accelerator.
• There was a suspected case of foot and mouth and I had to rush to see the cow concerned.
• The only way I could demonstrate my faulty clutch was to accelerate madly.

It's just a pity that speeding chiefs of police (eg Manchester) don't seem to feel the need to explain anything, other than giving their name, rank and serial  number.

 i don't get you

what capability?  what are you talking about if its not radar?

to be honest i am unsure but when i was at the autosport international i spoke to dave walker who is the MD of road angel and he told me about this new bill being passed and he told me about there new contract to fit road angel as an optional extra in the new VW`s

He told me that things like the snooper have an ability too send a signal and it was this fact that they would be banned by mid 2005 and this looks like it is coming true.

its not as easy as changing this device either as the way some of the systems work is by them sending a signal which is picked up by things around them (i cant remember the full reason to be honest) and some devices have a chip which has capability of sending out signals which cant be changed as it is this same chip that recieves signals.

i hope this makes a little sence ????

a simple answer to that is this. (based on the results of massive work from the RAC and the AA)

Uk speed limits were set out in the early 1970`s when the braking systems on cars were far less advanced than those of today.

It is a fact that modern cars can stop, at higher speeds in a shorter distance than those of yesteryear.

adding 10mph onto the speed limit would reduce trafic congestion by around 20% saving the country billions in lost revenue with employees etc etc stuck in traffic.

We are very outdated in this country.