GPS Illegal in Switzerland?
The Swiss authorities are apparently enforcing a law that makes it illegal to use any device that warns about safety/speeding cameras, either fixed or mobile. Apparently authorities are on the lookout for people using devices that have the ability to store the locations of GPS units that can alert drivers to the location of such cameras (which are most GPS units in Europe), and they are confiscating them. Unfortunately they are destroying them and fining the drivers. This sounds a lot like the stories of police here in the US confiscating radar detectors in states where they are illegal and stomping on them in front of the drivers who own them. OUCH!
The situation in Switzerland is being clarified, but it appears that devices that can be used to identify the locations of speed cameras in Switzerland are illegal to use or to be sold. This could really cause an issue for people traveling through there on vacation. Where exactly is the line drawn? Cable of warning speed cameras, but not actually loaded with Swiss cameras, is that OK? Try explaining that to the officer in another language.
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Posted by Scott Martin at January 22, 2007 8:50 AM
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