Road Angel UK

Road Angel Blackspot certainly caused a stir a few years ago in the radar / speedtrap detector market, Road Angel has become in many ways the generic term for this kind of product where previously Snooper held that position. Another generic term is radar detector which in the past has been used to describe any form of speedtrap detection.
Since entering the market place in 2002 with their Road Angel Classic Blackspot have managed to secure a massive share of a niche market place and in doing so have opened up the customer base to include almost any driver who either does a high mileage or has a prestige or performance car. This was done with a massive marketing fund and using every aspect of media and PR.
Using well known TV personalities to advertise the Road Angel, Blackspot continue to develop the product and bring new models out as the technology improves.
From fairly humble beginnings in a small office near to Silverstone in Northamptonshire UK, Road Angel Blackspot has grown from their first product now known as the Road Angel Classic which was a speedtrap and blackspot warning device to entering into the satellite navigation field. The list of products now includes the Road Angel Classic, New Road Angel 2, Road Angel Compact, Road Angel Navigator, Road Angel Plus and the Road Angel 6000 which has gained itself a name for being reliable and robust. At the time of writing future products will include the Road Angel 7000 and the Road Angel 9000 which will include bluetooth and GPRS technology, Blackspot are continuing the march forward into future sat nav automotive technology.

Road Angel Blackspot was started after research into the use of GPS technology as a safety feature which would control the speed of a vehicle according to the speed limits relevant to a particular stretch of road. This work was undertaken at Leeds University with the help of Dave Clark. Dave was and is an experienced racing driver with a real drive to succeed and saw that the technology had other related applications. Why not use the GPS technology to let drivers know about a designated blackspot so that the driver himself could make a judgement on the appropriate speed for the situation or hazard. As speedtraps are sometimes placed in high risk areas otherwise known as accident blackspots it was only prudent to include speedtrap locations in the warning system. While Dave was going about his business earning a living he put his ideas to a chap called Joe Eagle, who was a very successful businessman in his own right, Joe very quickly saw a business opportunity in a niche market and was impressed with Dave's drive and ambition and decided to back Dave in the new venture, Road Angel Blackspot, the rest is as they say history.

Road Angel Blackspot have become synonymous with quality and functionality of road safety devices developed by them, with robust construction and ease of use the buying public have placed the products at the top of their shopping lists when it comes to gifts or driving aids. When their new Road Angel 7000 and 9000 comes out they will raise the bar again with newer and better technology and no doubt this will spur the other manufacturers into action as they attempt to keep up with emerging technologies, companies like Garmin, Navman and Tom Tom will be waiting to see what they next have to equal in the market place.

Road Angel Blackspot decided since the launch of the Road Angel Classic, to build on their success and keep on developing products rather than to rest on their laurels and just see how it goes. If they had, they would have been quickly overtaken by competing companies and they would not have retained their position in the market place.