Helps you drive within your speed limits.
Although this screen looks a little intimidating, just remember that once your signs are saved, SpeedMinder can provide you its full audio warning benefits with the App in the background and the iPhone not even in sight, as long as you can hear the warnings.
To add a sign while driving, simply SWIPE LEFT or RIGHT on the main screen map, TOUCH and HOLD the NEW SPEED limit and then SWIPE UP to store the sign.
When you approach a sign that changes your speed limit, you can hear a friendly voice tell you what speed to accelerate or decelerate to based on the OK Over setting you have for the new speed limit.
Each user has an OK Over table based upon their personal preferences for each possible speed limit. The default OK Over table is set at an OK Over of 5 mph for all speed limits. You can edit this table by touching the RED dot labeled ‘YourNameHeres Limit’.
You can also be audibly warned when you are speeding with a police siren sound (or your own custom sound) which gets louder the more you are above your 'OK Over'. You can set the sound level of the siren for the 1 mph over level by touching the Speaker button. We find it best to have the 1 over siren volume level such that you can notice the sound but it is not intrusize. While you are there you can adjust SpeedMinders Master volume and the volume for speed sensitive warnings. Additionally you can have a vibration alert, with or without the audio alert.
TurnMinders:
Another feature of SpeedMinder is that you can place a TurnMinder sign that simply prompts with a reminder message saying 'TurnMinder' when a TurnMinder sign is passed in the same direction it was created in. Use these TurnMinder signs to remind you of turns that you forget about or are hard to pick out in the dark. You should place a TurnMinder at the same time as you take your foot off the gas pedal to make the turn when you can see the turn coming. This way when you hear 'TurnMinder' you know you should take your foot off the gas pedal and begin braking for the turn you want to make.
You place TurnMinders by touching the yellow arrow to the left of your current speed on the SpeedMinder speedometer.
Speed Traps:
Speed Trap locations can be saved by swiping DOWN on the map at any location you find Police cars hiding on the side of the road waiting for speedsters. You will then be warned with a 'Speed Trap' audible warning when you approach a speed trap from EITHER direction. On the 'Settings' page, accessible by touching the toothed wheel on the left side of SpeedMinders speedometer, you can choose to disable the audible 'Speed Trap' warnings and/or simply choose to play the siren louder in speed traps.
Turning on the audible Speed Trap warnings will be most useful when you drive in areas for the first time and have access to the national sign database we are creating.