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Teen Creates Device to Track Speeding

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the until-the-target-figures-out-how-to-hack-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A teen in Massachusetts has created a device that he hopes will help prevent traffic fatalities among teenagers. The unit plugs into a car and uses GPS to track and report on speeding — but only while the car exceeds a limit set by parents, so as to minimize invasion of the teen's privacy."

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  1. Re:You learn through mistakes by shaneh0 · · Score: 1, Troll

    This is actually amusing. Your argument is that speed limits are "unsafely low." As evidence, you suggest that the person driving the speed limit is at a higher risk then those driving twenty miles over the limit. But, as you have kindly explained, it's unsafe to drive the speed limit ONLY because the drivers around you are SPEEDING.

    That was some interesting logic you used, but I don't buy it. Yes, the guy doing 20 miles less then the traffic flow IS an obstacle. But it's not his fault. It's people like you, who feel you're entitled to drive 75 in a 55, who look at the guy driving 55 as the problem.

    I have to agree that it sounds like you're just a little bitter over some speeding tickets. Yes, they're a revenue-generator. No, that is not a bad thing.

    Let me ask you 2 things:

    1) If they set the limit to 75, do you think people would stop speeding? I don't think they would. I think you'd have people doing 85-90.
    2) Even if everyone did stop violating the limit, do you think the government will operate w/ less revenue? I think you'd see them make up for it elsewhere. Higher fees on licenses, license platers, sales taxes, property taxes, etc.

    But what do you think?