how Coyote redesigned its dedicated speed camera warning

Some Coyote users, including us, discovered it in preview last week through an advertisement in the application: Coyote is launching the Coyote Max, its new “box”.

The French company Coyote was born in 2005, initially offering a community speed camera warning device. (Not to be confused with a detector radar, which has always been illegal.)

The products gradually gave credence to the name of “driving assistance assistant“, born in 2011 when the manufacturers of radar detectors obtained from the Ministry of the Interior, instead of an outright ban, the right to report ” zones of danger » permanent or temporary of a few kilometers, instead of precisely reporting fixed and mobile speed cameras.

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A reinvented experience

Faced with the famous Waze application, which also offers community alert functions, Coyote promises with the Coyote Max to reinforce the uniqueness of the Coyote experience, which has always been to offer unmissable visual and audible alerts.

The Coyote Max therefore inaugurates “a reinvented experience” with new visual interfaces and new sounds.

For starters, the interface now further separates the speed limit, number and proximity of “scouts” (users ahead of you) from the actual speed. Above all, Coyote restores progressivity in alerts. The red color, screen flash and sounds now intensify as you approach three quarters of a “zone”, where “control” is located.

Finally, Coyote has reworked the shape and color of the alerts, which also include a new reserved lane control alert (carpooling, taxi, electric vehicles, etc.), in addition to permanent “controls” (= radars), temporary, section and moving, dangerous turns, wrong-way vehicles, objects on the track, slippery roads, etc.

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A welcome hardware modernization

The Coyote Max also brings a welcome hardware upgrade. It features a new 4-inch IPS touch screen with 800 × 480 pixels, an 8-core processor up to 2 GHz, “4 times more powerful than that of the Coyote Up”, 6 GB of RAM, a multi-constellation receiver (the American GPS and European Galileo), a 4G modem and two microphones for a new voice assistant. With a modest battery life of 2 hours, it is designed to attach to one of the 3 new magnetic and “charging” supports for dashboard, air vent or windshield. It otherwise has a USB-C port.

Finally, Coyote is claiming for the first time a responsible approach, with a glass screen, 100% recycled plastic for the case and packaging made from recycled and recyclable materials.

Price and availability

The Coyote Max is available in France and Belgium, in all Coyote stores, on the official website and at certain resellers including Amazon or Norauto, for the tidy sum of 300 euros.

It requires a subscription of 15 euros/month with a one-year commitment, 180 euros for one year or 360 euros for two years (no discounts!). The supports are sold for 30 to 35 euros, the 12 V charger 25 euros.

Does a dedicated box that is always ready to use justify such a budget? We will give you our opinion in our test to be published very soon!