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It also helps you to know where those nasty breathalizer traps are too....so you can take a 'safer' back route home.

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Some have already mentioned how you can beat speeding cameras by not speeding past them, so I won't reiterate. Other commenters complain about how silly speed limits are. I agree, but let's be practical.

For the time being, we're going to have speed enforcement. The public sea change necessary to eliminate that isn't going to happen any time soon. If we must have nannies running around, wasting time and money, who are making sure all the little kiddies are following playground rules, we might as well have machines doing it. Machines that can't prove our identities in court, and don't doll out points that adversely affect our license status and help insurance companies jack up our premiums.

We've got countermeasures (pick your favorite: Waze and Trapster) against these cameras that are legal in all states (unlike radar detectors), and, if you happen to get caught by one you've missed, your driving privileges aren't put in jeopardy.

tl;dr: less cops, more cameras.

http://www.trapster.com/

Check it out and enjoy.

I think they're probably looking ahead too. If it's ok to have an app that warns about DUI checkpoints, why not one that warns you about speed traps? Why not one that ties into your phone's GPS and automatically fires off an audio alert when you're nearing a photo radar van that someone else tagged? Apps like this could be made very user friendly, and police departments could stand to lose a lot of money to them.

You mean people might write apps like these?

http://www.trapster.com/iphone.php
http://landlinemedia.blogspot.com/2009/07/photo-radar-theres-app-for-that.html

When it comes down to it, you're looking at a screen smaller than a deck of cards. Multi-tasking on that is pretty much useless.

I commonly run Glympse while listening to Pandora on my way home, so my wife knows when to expect me. I also sometime run Trapster to check for speed traps. None of those apps give a shit about the screen most of the time. That then allows me to run one of many apps that show traffic information on the screen. Running 4 apps at the same time might slow my charge rate to a crawl, but it is extremely useful.

At the same time, the lack of that ability is keeping me from moving from iPhone to WM7. However, this fall I'm sure I'll try one out.

It's pretty handy to have:

http://www.trapster.com/

And no, I'm in no way related to the development or publishing of the app, I just find it funny that they would crack down on someone using twitter for this when there are full-blown apps to handle it.

Up-to-the-minute online data about where any police checkpoints and speed traps are would be nice.

Trapster for Android:

http://www.trapster.com/android.php

They also have versions for iPhone, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, etc.

www.trapster.com

It's an interactive thingy where you post where cops are hiding in speed traps.

I'm surprised it's still up, honestly.