The applications that act as GPS navigator or copilothave revolutionized the world of today's driving. Information that can avoid traffic jams, distractions, accidents and even fines, just by using the smartphone as a travel companion. A leap that the French company TomTom has been slow to make by focusing on its own GPS navigatorsor paid applications, and not follow the current free trend. However, it now offers a free speed camera detector for the Android platform.
Thus, the company launches the application TomTom Traffic Cameras A co-pilot tool designed to inform about the presence of speed controls on the road you are driving on. Something that it does both with the fixed speed cameras, which always remain active in the same area, and with the mobiles , which are usually placed at strategic points and specific moments, and whose existence is not always certain. In addition, it also informs the driver about the average speed sections, avoiding receiving a fine for exceeding said data.
To do this TomTom Speed Cameras commitment to simplicity , with a very visual interface and large screen elements.Something that, according to its co-founder, Corinne Vigreux, avoids user stress, receiving the alerts directly and very visually. And this application checks the road on which the user is driving to avoid warning of nearby road cameras that do not really affect their driving. All this by receiving audio alerts if you want to avoid taking your eyes off the road, but also showing the type of radar and the distance to the one on the mobile screen
In this application, the company TomTom has followed the philosophy of the well-known Waze , the social GPS navigator with which it was made Google Thus, allows users themselves to participate by confirming the location of these speed cameras as they pass through them. You only have to click on the button that appears on the screen to informrmar the position and thus be able to update all the speedcam data, both fixed and mobile.
According to TomTom, there is already a community of 4.6 million drivers participating in the improvement of your service by reporting all these radars. Of course, it ensures that it has its high-precision database from which it extracts the location of the fixed controls, verified by itself TomTom team Of course, in the case of mobile phones, you can only rely on the good will of the users who decide to report and confirm their position during the journey. An issue that benefits everyone, as has already been demonstrated in Waze
Another point in favor of TomTom Speed Cameras is the possibility of using the application in second plane For example, while using a GPS navigation tool to direct the user's steps and turns, while still receiving nearby radar warnings.In addition, it has a way to know the density of traffic and nearby jams on the map.
Best of all, this is a completely free application. At the moment it is only available for the platform Android through Google Play Store.
