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New iPhone Apps Help Drivers Beat Speed Traps
Ponca City, We love you writes "Two mobile applications, NMobile and Trapster, are providing drivers with up-to-date maps of speed-enforcement zones with live police traps, speed cameras or red-light cameras. Each application pulls up a map pinpointing the locations of speed traps within driving distance and an audio alert will sound as vehicles approach an area tagged as harboring a speed trap. Both applications rely on the wisdom of the crowds for their data with users reporting camera-rigged stop lights and areas heavily populated with radar-toting police officers via the iPhone or their web-based application, creating the ultimate speed trap repository available to you when you need it most — while you're driving. To thwart false alarms and eliminate inaccuracies, Trapster enlists its community of nearly 200,000 members to rank speed traps on their accuracy. NMobile founder Shannon Atkinson declined to provide detailed data, though he did estimate that 'well over 1,000' users had downloaded the application since it became available last week. The company insists they've received only positive feedback from law enforcement officials and police officers regarding their products. 'If the application gets people to slow down, I think it's generally considered to be a good thing,' said Atkinson."
When tools are banned.. oh, nevermind...
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damn you, iphone. now you've gone and made the CB obsolete
1. Teflon coat a slope
2. Lower speed limit on said slope
3. Speed camera at the bottom
4. Profit!
Did you even read the articles?
Evidently, you are new here.
On a side note, could these be considered illegal in certain places, classified as a radar radar detector
I've always assumed they mean "We can't stop you using this, so we're going to pretend it helps."
I wish people would just, you know, drive slower without having to be forced to, but I guess that's wishful thinking.
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." - Tolkien
Now all the police has to do is rate their actual speed traps low and catch the iPhone speeders!
I mean, I always said that Apple users would not pass a round of natural selection, this could be an example ;)
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let's see you read the article while trying to first post while piloting a 2 ton juggernaut on public streets while mixing another jack and coke.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
We have lots of skid pads to practice on here. We just don't bother segregating them from the rest of the roadway. More efficient that way.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
because, when it doubt, it's probably a trap.
This guy was probably posting from his iPhone while driving, and skipped the article for safety reasons.
Because obeying traffic laws is such a waste of time.
My peace of mind does not depend on
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Obviously isn't helping improve driving skills much. The second bloke's on the wrong side of the road!
From the many feature films I've seen, the small-town cops in the Deep South don't actually collect any money from travellers. Rather they prefer to kidnap/rape/bugger/squeal/play banjos at/murder the travellers.