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Traffic App Waze To Alert L.A. Drivers of Kidnappings and Hit-and-Runs
An anonymous reader writes: Traffic-alert app Waze has announced a partnership with Los Angeles to share information on hit-and-runs and kidnappings taking place across the city, alongside traffic data and road closure updates. The deal forms part of a data-sharing agreement between L.A. authorities and the Google-owned tech startup detailed yesterday by the city's mayor Eric Garcetti. He assured that the data provided to the city by Waze would be "aggregated" and completely anonymous. According to the councillor the collaboration was mutually confirmed on Monday following a "very good meeting" between Waze and LAPD chief officer Charlie Beck. This move signals a considerable turn of events after Beck argued at the end of last year that the traffic alert app posed a danger to police due to its ability to track their location. The complaint followed the shooting of two police officers in New York after the shooter used the app to track his targets.
>> kidnappings
If you live in a city where "kidnappings" is just considered another statistics...it might be time to move.
The numbers of fatal accidents has been decreasing the past thirty years
I understand that to have more to do with cars being safer than anything else. Anti lock brakes and air bags are now standard in the overwhelming majority of cars on American roads today, amongst other things.
Cell phones have had no noticeable statistical effect
If we're talking over the same period of time (30 years as you said earlier) it is impossible for them not to. There were quite nearly zero cell phones in 1985. We now regularly have serious - and sometimes fatal - accidents caused by idiots who believe they can safely read and write text messages on their phones while driving. It appears you are looking at the general downward trend of fatal accidents per capita, and then saying that nothing could possibly have a negative impact on that. That simply doesn't work.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Is this going to become an extension of the Amber alert system, which I believe research has shown is rarely of use in actual kidnappings and is used mostly in non-violent child custody arguments & runaways? I don't know if they've had a single case where the system has been proven to have saved a child's life.