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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."
Please tell me that you're being sarcastic.
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." - Tolkien
So we're going to eliminate ALL older cars? ALL older and younger drives? ALL trucks from the consideration of what speed limits should be? Speed limits are also adjusted due to possibility of vehicle failure and other unforeseen circumstances. Just because you're in a hurry and only care about yourself doesn't mean much to a lot of people.
Are you twelve years old? "I saw that other guy do it" is NOT a valid reason for you to do the same thing.
You're not even disobeying the law for some kind of ideological difference with the law itself. You are literally seeing someone do something wrong and emulating because you can.
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." - Tolkien
I'm not challenging that, I'm challenging the idea that breaking the law is fine and dandy just because someone else does.
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." - Tolkien
Clearly I'm the moron, because you made a statement and I assumed you actually meant what you said.
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." - Tolkien
You shouldn't need to slam on your breaks to slow down though. Braking from 70 to 35 is a huge waste of gas. They should give some sort of warning so people can just coast down to the new speed limit.
I wish you assholes would either learn the difference between words like "brakes"/"breaks", "your"/"you're" and "there"/"their"/"they're" or decide not to post in public forums.
I'm not being pedantic over a grammatical error. I am protesting your lack of mastery over your own native language, your limitless supply of rationalizations and excuses when anyone expects better of you, and most of all I am protesting the way it feels to live in a superficial culture where everyone does everything the laziest, most half-assed way possible unless a very significant fire is lit under their ass because no one cares about excellence or much of anything except for their own gratification. Gratification that wouldn't be so goddamned important except that you need something to fill that empty hollow of your life that occurs when your politicial philosophies come from the news conglomerates, your taste in music comes from the top-40 chart and your idea of spirituality is something that other people have to give to you.
Most of you have no soul, certainly not enough to question the bullshit you're being spoonfed every day, most of you have no balls, certainly not enough to openly go against the norm and face your insecurities and most of you will use your semblance of a life to reproduce and make other lives who will grow up to wonder why they feel the same hollow, quiet despair that you do. That's if they're intelligent enough to even formulate the question. Statistically speaking, chances are good that they won't be.
So yeah, no wonder expecting you to reliably handle the requirements of basic grammar is asking too much, because you'd never put effort into that for its own sake; you'd only do that if it were a requirement to please a teacher or a professor or a boss. You're happy with this? You're really joyous and spiritually fulfilled as a human being? Really??
Sort of like seatbelt laws?
I was driving in Portland OR a few years ago and got stopped...STOPPED mind you... for not wearing my seatbelt. It was something like a $175 ticket. I opted to go to the "Seat Belt Awareness Class", got to see some really amusing videos, and then told that even if I don't care about my own safety, I should think of the firemen, paramedics, etc. that have to remove me from the vehicle. I asked the instructor why it was anyone's business but my own if I decide to wear my seatbelt. She threatened to have me removed...and to keep the $80 I paid for the class in ADDITION to having me pay the original fine.
It amazes me that we pass laws like this, all because some soccer mom lost her precious little boy/girl in a terrible auto accident because they were drunk and not wearing their seatbelt while driving 100MPH down a country road. fffft.
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How about, you're just an imbecile? I was going to write a little bit longer of a post, but there is nothing more to say, sorry.
And you sound like someone who's never outside of a major city. It's not at all uncommon for signs in rural areas to be 100% obscured by plants. The locals know about it, they weren't planned that way, but it happens.
Everything will be taken away from you.
Now they've become so perverted that they seem to only exist in many places as a revenue source for local towns, and in causing drivers to spend more time looking at signs on the side of the road and their speedometer, they actually cause the roads to be LESS safe.
Agreed. My favourites are "school zones", an area around a primary or secondary school with a speed limit of 40km/h between 0800-0930 and 1430-1600. That's 40 no matter what the usual limit is. I've seen open highways with a school zone on it, and the limit going from 110 to 40.
They've just started putting in speed cameras that can enforce these variable speed limits, and they're making a fortune.
All the while, the traffic keeps it eyes on their speedos, and off the roads with the unpredictable kidlets running around, the ones that you need to keep a close eye on.
It makes me sick to my stomach