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Stinger DSI - GPS
With a multitude of industry-firsts and industry-only's, Stinger is the world's leading speed trap protection device. For instance, only Stinger offers a military grade radar antenna, only Stinger offers a real spectrum analyser, and only Stinger offers all-in-one speed trap protection against all the different kinds of speed traps: mobile and fixed radar speed traps, mobile and fixed laser speed traps, as well as both SPECS and Truvelo speed traps. And all that at the highest level.
Stinger offers two basic product options: The Stinger DSI Computer and the Stinger Card. Using the same radar and laser antenna's, both the Stinger DSI and the Card deliver the exact same high-end performance. Also, both the DSI and the Card are car computers that are user updateable, making them ready for future technology changes (like different kinds of speed traps) and product improvements. However, there are two differences between these two Stingers. One, the DSI offers the Mileage Logging functionality while the Card does not. And two, the DSI comes with a graphic display, while the credit card sized Card uses an LED-display.
The DSI's graphic display and user interface optimises the visual usage experience of driving around with a Stinger.
Only a Stinger contains components that up till recently have been utilised exclusively in military defense electronics. Now, you can benefit from these advanced electronics in a consumer product. To make this possible, the Stinger engineers have developed revolutionary technologies. Moreover, they have succeeded in making the DSI Computer incredibly user friendly. The easy to command display unit gives you full control over DSI�s power. As a result, this Stinger�s practical value is bigger than ever.
A real life example...
Mileage Logging
You start your car, and your DSI comes to life automatically. Immediately, DSI asks you what kind of trip you will be making: Business, Private, or Commute. With one touch of a button, you choose Commute. You drive away.
If desired, your DSI can assist you with your mileage logging, making it elementary to keep track of your business versus private car usage.
Safety Signals
Next, your display shows the pilot screen, making clear that your DSI is ready to assist you and supply you with all relevant alert messages. Some time later, you are driving on the motor way when your DSI announces: “SAFETY SIGNALS: Road works.” Sure enough, a kilometer down the road you encounter road works. The temporary narrowing of the road, as well as the decreased maximum speed allowed, do not come as a surprise to you. You have had ample time to slow down ensuring your safe passing of the road works.
Explanation
A Stinger comprises, among other functions, a special safety system. A DSI is equipped to receive, at a large distance, Safety Signals sent by transmitters that can be used by - for instance - schools, road workers, police and emergency services. Transmitted Safety Signals are decoded by your DSI in real-time, providing you with clear audio and visual alerts much ahead of time.
SPECS Alerting
Some time later your DSI announces that you are driving into a ‘SPECS’ camera area. The maximum speed allowed is displayed. After this announcement your DSI remains perfectly quiet for it knows your average speed has remained under the maximum speed allowed. Your DSI also shows all this on your display screen.
Explanation
On many roads in Europe (UK, Germany, Spain, The Netherlands, France, Italy, etc) the police measure your average speed over a fixed distance: generally referred to as ‘SPECS’. During SPECS, many drivers continuously keep looking at their speedometer, or drive dangerously slow out of fear of getting a speeding ticket. That is why Stinger has developed ‘SPECS Alerting’: you will be alerted when you are approaching SPECS, and during the SPECS your Stinger DSI will calculate and display your average ‘SPECS speed’. If at any time your average lies above the set speed limit, your DSI will alert you with an audio signal as well as a display depiction of a ‘sad face’. Additionally, ‘SPECS Alerting’ shows where you are in the SPECS trajectory and what the remaining distance is until you reach the end of the SPECS. Really, all you have to do is watch the road.
Laser Safety Signals
You are driving on a rather empty motorway. Suddenly, you hear your DSI's audio alert. You let go of the accelerator in order to gradually slow down. Your Stinger shows: Safety Signal - Braking Traffic. To be on the safe side, you start driving at 60 mph where 70 mph would be allowed. A mile down the road, all traffic is actually standing still on the motorway. Thanks to your DSI with Laser Safety Signals, however, you comfortably come to a full stop much ahead of the other vehicles.
Explanation
Laser Safety Signals can also transmit 'car-to-car' alerts. This enables a Stinger-DSI user who employs Stinger Laser, to alert other Stinger users by initiating or relaying Safety Signals. For instance, a Stinger user who hits the breaks, generates a 'Heavy braking' signal on the Memory Display of Stinger users in his vicinity. Safe driving is a part of comfortable driving.
Laser Alerting
It is a nice, sunny day. You are in your car and are driving on a carriageway, with a mere few other vehicles in sight. Nothing much going on, you think. Then, your Stinger's audio signal alerts you that something is up. Your display shows 'LASER ALERT' and 'Laser Patrol'. Just in case, you double-check your speedometer, which confirms you are driving exactly at the allowed speed limit. Yet, you decided to decelerate somewhat. Only close to a mile later, you see a police man - hunched over a farmland gate - with a laser gun. You were right, nothing much going on.
Explanation
Stinger DSI's Laser Alerting is extraordinarily sensitive. So much so, that your Stinger can pick up laser that was 'fired' at a car in front of you. In addition, Stinger Laser encompasses a breakthrough novelty - it is able to recognise and indicate the type of police laser gun: Is it a Laser Patrol or an Ultralyte? 'Gun recognition' is not just a nice gimmick. It is evidence of Stinger's Laser Alerting's accuracy and professionalism.
LaserShield®
You are driving in a country where the active use of LaserShield is allowed. You have therefore downloaded and installed the LaserShield software. You are smoothly keeping up with the flow of traffic when all of a sudden your Stinger starts: LASER ALERT! Your Stinger not only warns you against an upcoming laser gun speed check, but thanks to LaserShield also makes it impossible for the laser gun to obtain an initial reading of your speed. Therefore, there is no need for you to abruptly start ascertaining the applicable speed limit and your exact current speed. To be sure, you do lower your speed. While you keep an eye on the road, your LaserShield protects you against the laser gun.
Explanation
With the help of its sensitive laser detection, Stinger Laser swiftly sniffs out a 'police gun' and raises - if so desired by you and where allowed - a Shield as protection against laser rays. After some seconds (the number is to be set by you) this protection automatically ceases with the running out of the 'Shield-up' time. During stand still and low speed, the LaserShield cannot be engaged.
SpotList Alarting
A few kilometers down the road your DSI sounds an alert and displays: “SpotList Alarm”. You ascertain that you are not speeding. Then you see what your DSI already knew: A speed trap. You drive past it without changing your speed and without worries.
Explanation
Based on its GPS, your DSI can alert you to such extra attention requiring locations as fixed speed traps. Even in countries where ‘Radar Alerting’ (see page 9) is not allowed, ‘SpotList Alerting’ will warn you for fixed speed traps. Next to the ‘Stinger SpotList’ GPS data base - being made available freely at www.stinger.com - you can easily build up your own SpotList data base. You can add and delete SpotList locations by the push of literally one button.
Radar Alerting
You are driving in a country where Radar Alerting is allowed. Your Stinger sounds and shows an alert. Not loud, but clear. Both the alert sound and the display make clear that you are approaching a radar speed trap. You continue to drive at your steady and comfortable speed, while focusing on the road. The DSI alert keeps sounding. Many hundreds of meters later you see a mobile speed trap which doesn’t startle you in the least - for you already knew you were not speeding.
Explanation
Wherever Radar Alerting is allowed, the DSI can locate police radars. Because of its hyper-intelligent and advanced military technologies, the Stinger DSI can catch radar at more than double the distance radar detectors can. The Stinger DSI is the best alerter for speed traps in the world.
Equipping DSI with Radar Alerting
In countries where Radar Alerting is not, or may not be, allowed, Stinger offers a version of the DSI that is incapable of alerting for radar. Should the legal situation change, or one would like to use DSI in a country where radar detection is allowed, then simply by downloading alternate software the user is able to make DSI capable of Radar Alerting.
Usage of the Radar Alerting software is meant for countries where radar detection is allowed. Stinger recommends not to use Radar Alerting in countries where the use of radar detection has been banned. Specifically for those drivers who use the Stinger DSI Computer in countries where employing Radar Alerting is allowed, the DSI has been equipped with a function to delete the Radar Alerting software with one push of a button. Consequently, this allows users to abide by, seemingly conflicting, regional rules and regulations.
DSI undetectable for “Radar Detector Detector”
Since the DSI Computer is not a Radar Detector, you will probably not be suprised that even the newest “Radar Detector Detectors” are not capable of detecting it. From a legal point of view it might be irrelevant that the DSI cannot be detected. The Stinger’s stealth characteristics are, however, an important convenience for the Stinger user: he will not be unnecessarily bothered by the police, asking him whether he is using a radar detector.
PoliceCheck
Situation
Once you have arrived at your place of work, you notice how pleasantly quiet your DSI remains. The radar detector you used to drive with, regularly annoyed with its many false alarms. But not your DSI. Feeling relaxed, you step out of your car, all ready to start your working day.
At the office, however, a nasty little surprise awaits you: a speeding ticket. You wonder if it is correct. By clicking your DSI display onto the Stinger PC Interface, you connect it to your PC in order to check the data of the speeding tickets against your PoliceCheck data base. Your DSI data show that at the time of the alleged speeding you were not where the speeding ticket says that you were. Moreover, your data shows that you have not been speeding anywhere, for that matter. This is enough cause for you to appeal against the speeding fine.
Explanation
Not all speed checks get executed correctly. Sometimes police radars operate outside the legal radar frequency band widths, or have been set up at a wrong angle vis-à-vis the road. Further, it happens that unclear photographs and/or inaccurate police work result in license plates being read incorrectly. So what if you get a speeding ticket? Generally, the license plate holder will be deemed guilty, unless he can prove not to have been responsible for the alleged speeding. PoliceCheck helps you to lift this burden of evidence. DSI records where you have driven, if you have encountered active speed traps, and what your speed has been. On top of that, the Stinger DSI measures and records the exact radar frequency of every active radar speeds trap you have passed. This way the DSI Computer assists you to appeal against speeding tickets that are incorrect.
The Stinger DSI is as accurate as it is quiet.
As previously mentioned, the new Stinger is not a radar detector. Thanks in part to the Spectrum Analyzer and 'patch antenna' technology, the system is able to spot police radars with scientific accuracy at distances previously thought impossible. The DSI Computer can issue a warning at over twice the distance of radar detectors such as the legendary Stinger Ventura.
Our GPS Detection technology supports the radar alert function and enables advanced technology, such as:
FalseListing™
Imagine this: You drive past the same petrol station every day. The automatic doors of that petrol station cause the radar detector to produce a false alarm. Every morning. Is that radar detector slow witted? Yes. The Stinger DSI is far more intelligent. All the DSI motorist needs to do is press the 'FalseList' button when passing the petrol station. From then on, you will no longer be bothered by false alarms when driving past that location.
SpeedSense™
Do you often hear radar alerts even though you aren't speeding? The Stinger DSI allows you to enter two speed values below which no alarm will sound, one for motorways and one for non-motorway driving. The DSI GPS module determines which of the two values to apply. The luxury of relaxed driving.
F-16 technology in your car’s cockpit
The Spectrum Analyzer is quite possibly DSI’s most spectacular component. It’s the kind of state of the art measuring equipment one would only expect to encounter in scientific research centers or the R&D department of huge corporations. Price: euro 50,000. Stinger has developed a more affordable miniature version. This enables DSI to dissect a microwave radar signal into patterns, frequencies, and amplitudes.
Stinger has coupled the Spectrum Analyzer with an integrated ‘Phased Array Radar’, or patch, antenna to serve as the receptor. Until recently, one could only find these credit card thin patch antennas on the nose of military jets like the F-16 and in anti-rocket defence systems.
Stinger’s engineers enable you to benefit from these advanced technologies on the road, supplying you with vital information.
Legality
Legality Stinger DSI
The purchase, possession and use of the Stinger DSI are fully legal in the UK.
Legality Stinger Laser
The purchase and possession of the Stinger Laser are fully legal in the UK. Also the use of the Laser Alert functionality are fully legal in the UK. However, active use of the Stinger LaserShield with the intent to hinder a police laser speed measurement is not legal. We advise to only employ the Stinger LaserShield in countries where its use is fully legal.
Please note: We gather, analyse and share all legal information with the utmost care, but cannot be held accountable for its full validity in the whole, or parts, of the UK. Consequently, no rights can be derived from the legal information we provide on this website.
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