I own two 97 850 wagons, a GLT and an R--the GLT here in Norway and the R in Oregon. Norway has an automatic traffic control system, a photobox alongside the road to take your picture and send you a $400 ticket for going ten kilometers over the speed limit. Radar/laser detectors are illegal, and the photobox uses a cable sensor stretched across the road twenty-five meters from the box, so it's academic. But I just discovered that there are GPS systems available with the software to tell you when you're within a couple of hundred feet of one. The best seems to be something called TomTom-3, with TT-5 soon to be released. Whether you have to buy a full-fledged GPS navigation system for it to work along with a subscription, whether you can get by with something cheaper, I don't know. I plan to install the system on both cars, so if anybody has any suggestions about which is the best US system out there, I would really appreciate the info. As far as the 850 here in Norway and the photoboxes, I will come to that a bit later. Hard to say what satellite systems are in use over Europe vs North America, and so which system to purchase. Any suggestions or advice about which system is the best to install in an 850. Sometimes wish both cars had been 2001 models with the optional navigation system, but they aren't. Dick

Several websites offer software and information:

http://www.trafcam.com/product.htm

http://www.totalpda.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=2758

http://www.pdamods.com/

http://www.gpsforless.co.uk/product_details.php?id=984




Glad we don't have that junk over here......... yet.





Mike
'95 850T

Hey Dick,
Those of us who live in the land of the round door knobs only have red-light photo cops. I hope that new fangled device never comes to the USA. There are no such GPS based gizmos here that I know of. Maybe Japan?

Klaus
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98 V70Rawd(108Kmi), 95 854T(88K mi), 75 164E(173K mi)

Well in Japan, you can get GPS on your phone and actually get streets and such on the display, but never heard of any photo taking gadgets. I have on ocassion seen bike cops look-alikes...bike and all with a plastic dummy sitting on the bike in a place where people speed. Very effective at slowing everyone down. I've also seen robot cop flag-men. It's a very strange and unique culture.
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1998 S70 T5 Emarald Green Metallic, 2004 V70 2.5T Ruby Red, Previous Owner of Black '94 850 Turbo Wagon