Road Angel vantage Product Manual & User Manual - Road Speed Data
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Road Speed Data
For many years, you have been asking us to help you understand the
current legal speed limit of the roads you are driving, regardless of the
presence of a safety camera or obvious road signage. However, once we
started looking into this we were amazed that there is currently no definitive
digital speed limit database for the UK’s roads.
With over 250,000 miles of roads, collecting all of this data ourselves would
have been an enormous job costing millions of pounds and, much like
painting the Forth Bridge, would need constant attention year on year.
For the Road Angel Vantage we’ve teamed up with Navteq™, owned by
Nokia, to use the road speed limit database supplied as part of their
navigation product suite. This ensures that we have all the major roads
covered and get to hear when a new road or dual carriageway is being
built. We realise that the data supplied by Navteq is not 100% accurate as
local authorities are free to amend national speed limit recommendations
as they see fit.
This is why we have created SpeedShare™ which lets you, our customers,
suggest new or revised road speed limits at the press of a button.
We have been doing something similar with our Professional Connected
customers for the last few years using our CameraShare™ feature as it
gives us 10,000’s of eyes and ears out there – all happy to tell us when a
new safety camera has been installed or a mobile camera van has parked
up.
Once you report an anomaly with the road speed database, our dedicated
team investigate the piece of road in question and adjust, where
appropriate, the speed limit in our master database ready to download to
you next time you update.
Over time, we are confident that we will start to develop the only truly
accurate picture of legal road speed limits in the UK. Thank you in advance
for helping us in this endeavour.
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Table of Contents
QUICK START GUIDE
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Road Speed Data
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1. Introduction
1
Unpacking the Box
3
Warranty
4
Battery Power and Recharging
4
Controls and Connectors
5
2. Registration
6
Charge the unit
6
Register your unit online
6
Subscription
6
The SIM update
7
3. Putting It All Together
8
Security
8
1. Preparing the mounting arm
9
2. Attaching the mounting arm to the bracket
9
3. Positioning in your car
10
4. Attaching the power lead
12
4. Getting Started
13
Switching On for the First Time
13
5. Alerts
15
Advisory Colour Coding
16
Audio and Speech Warnings
17
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Road Speed Data
For many years, you have been asking us to help you understand the
current legal speed limit of the roads you are driving, regardless of the
presence of a safety camera or obvious road signage. However, once we
started looking into this we were amazed that there is currently no definitive
digital speed limit database for the UK’s roads.
With over 250,000 miles of roads, collecting all of this data ourselves would
have been an enormous job costing millions of pounds and, much like
painting the Forth Bridge, would need constant attention year on year.
For the Road Angel Vantage we’ve teamed up with NAVTEQ™, owned by
Nokia, to use the road speed limit database supplied as part of their
navigation product suite. This ensures that we have all the major roads
covered and get to hear when a new road or dual carriageway is being
built. We realise that the data supplied by NAVTEQ™ is not 100% accurate
as local authorities are free to amend national speed limit
recommendations as they see fit.
This is why we have created SpeedShare™ which lets you, our customers,
suggest new or revised road speed limits at the press of a button.
We have been doing something similar with our Professional Connected
customers for the last few years using our CameraShare™ feature as it
gives us 10,000’s of eyes and ears out there – all happy to tell us when a
new safety camera has been installed or a mobile camera van has parked
up.
Once you report an anomaly with the road speed database, our dedicated
team investigate the piece of road in question and adjust, where
appropriate, the speed limit in our master database ready to download to
you next time you update.
Over time, we are confident that we will start to develop the only truly
accurate picture of legal road speed limits in the UK. Thank you in advance
for helping us in this endeavour.