Highway Radar

Highway Radar

About this app

Highway Radar is an application to help drivers be aware of road hazards, cameras, and speed traps. It collects traffic-related information from multiple sources and provides notices on potential risks on the road.

Crowd-sourced alerts: Highway Radar can connect to a sever aggregating crowd-sourced alerts and show them on the map. It also issues audible voice warnings and optionally a beeper to grab the attention. Currently, the application supports alerting on speed traps and road hazards reports.

Aircraft alerts: In some countries, aircraft traffic enforcement is in use. Highway Radar collects information about air traffic around though various ADS-B exchange sites (ADSBx, OpenSky). Then it matches every aircraft to multiple registration databases and alerts drivers only on those which can potentially do traffic enforcement.

Historical data analysis: Highway Radar aggregates data about past police and speed trap reports and estimates the risk of a given area being heavily patrolled. The app also features a heat map that shows places with especially frequent speed trap reports.

Speed and red-light cameras: Highway Radar can warn the driver when approaching a traffic camera. This feature is available in the USA and Canada only.

Extra features: Highway Radar can also show you traffic jams on nearby streets and a weather radar information around you.

NOTE: This application can use accessibility service to launch other application on service start, including activating split-screen mode or preloading the application. The accessibility service isn't used for anything else but launching other applications upon service start, and only if Highway Radar is configured to do so. No data is accessed, collected, or shared in any way though the accessibility service.

Ratings and reviews

The app is pretty great, I don't think I've drove without it in the past year. Even if you're not using it to avoid speed traps, being alerted about cars on the side of the road, potholes, roadkill, etc is very useful and has allowed me to prepare so I didn't have to take emergency action to avoid hitting obstacles a number of times. My only complaint is how the app really wants to rotate to portrait mode more than any other app I have, I have yet to figure out why this happens.

This is a very helpful app. I do have a suggestion. When the connection is lost, we often do not realize it until we happen to look down and see a message, as we are paying attention to the road. Perhaps a notification error tone when the connection is lost, or a "radar sweep" while the app is active so that we know the app is not functioning if there is no sweep on the screen... or something beyond just the small orange square in the corner. Just a thought. Thanks!

For full functionality you have to go to a specific web forum, register for an account, make several posts THEN (hopefully) you will be granted access to their plugin as long as you find the link to it. Then download, install and configure the plugin. Such an unnecessary self-own and usability nightmare.

What’s new

Added support for tracking cameras