Cheetah C100 GPS Detector

Pros: Enforcement cameras (speed & red light) are now used in over 28 states. These cameras are the primary enforcement tool in Europe, so its no surprise that the leading company offering countermeasures is European. Cheetah Advanced Technologies in Scotland makes this outstanding GPS detector, the model C100. This highly effective unit comes preloaded with a database of these fixed camera locations and utilizes GPS reception to give you visual and audible (tone or voice) warnings as you approach. The Cheetah C100 uses the Trinity database, which is widely regarded as the most complete and up to date. Trinity includes many thousands of locations in the US, Canada and 37 other countries. Its no surprise that this is the same database chosen by Escort for their GPS enabled models like the 9500ix and 9500ci and Bel for their GX-65. The Trinity database is updated monthly and the C100 includes a free lifetime subscription for these updates. A USB cable is included to connect to your PC and the internet for updates. You can also manually bookmark any locations you wish the unit to remember (school or construction zone, VASCAR marks, etc.) where enforcement is intense. The C100 plugs into your cigarette lighter and can be quickly moved from car to car. This unit has a variety of clever features. One called Automatic Ranging will vary the warning distance according to your speed. If youre on a major road going 55, for example, it will alert you further out than if youre on a side street going only 35 (average alert distance is around 1200). Another called Overspeed will alert you if a preselected speed is exceeded. Other GPS enabled features include a built-in compass, speedometer and clock. The C100 includes a cigarette plug power cord, anti-slip dash pad, windshield suction cup bracket, USB download cord and a CD with the USB driver software. The optional Radar Detector Interface is quite interesting. This wireless device turns the C100 into the single central device for all visual and audible alerts from both the C100 itself and your preexisting radar detector. If your radar detector, for example, picks up a Ka band radar gun, this will be displayed as such right on the C100s visual display and give you an audible alert as well. The link between your existing radar detector and the C100 is wireless to boot, so there are no extra cords to deal with.