Here is a reason I can see for having a sophisticated device like and iPhone linked into GPS software. A dynamic hazard warning device. Read here.
The users send their GPS coordinates and the type of hazard into the ether and it is shared with other users who can then see what they are approaching. This enables them to slow down for that particular hazard. Everyone is a winner. Drivers take care around hazards, the children, we mustn’t forget them, are safe, there are less accidents, the sun shines on all and flowers bloom along the sides of the road. Bliss.
Well, not quite everyone. The local plod are not happy with the fall in revenue as the system also warns of radar traps. The chief of police calls the users ‘cowardly’ which is interesting because it certainly sounds ‘manly’ to me that plod chases motorists that are going a couple of mph over the limit with little risk whilst so many murderers and violent felons go free in DC unmolested by plod. Of course that is high risk so as everyone does go for the less risky targets. Although that may be changing. Read here about the people striking back with a guy in America shooting a traffic cop and don’t think it will be the last. People are getting fed up and see plod as the enemy.
As an interesting side-note it says in the article that DC has 10% of the red-light and speed cameras in the US but the total is only 290. I can believe that they have 10% because they certainly sound like a mini UK with plod concentrating on motorists and not criminals but that means they only have 3000 in the whole of the US. I don’t believe that. Hell, we have more than that in London alone and a good earner it is for our thieving government and at no risk. Yet.
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. — Norman Schwarzkopf
An iPhone application I like
Here is a reason I can see for having a sophisticated device like and iPhone linked into GPS software. A dynamic hazard warning device. Read here.
The users send their GPS coordinates and the type of hazard into the ether and it is shared with other users who can then see what they are approaching. This enables them to slow down for that particular hazard. Everyone is a winner. Drivers take care around hazards, the children, we mustn’t forget them, are safe, there are less accidents, the sun shines on all and flowers bloom along the sides of the road. Bliss.
Well, not quite everyone. The local plod are not happy with the fall in revenue as the system also warns of radar traps. The chief of police calls the users ‘cowardly’ which is interesting because it certainly sounds ‘manly’ to me that plod chases motorists that are going a couple of mph over the limit with little risk whilst so many murderers and violent felons go free in DC unmolested by plod. Of course that is high risk so as everyone does go for the less risky targets. Although that may be changing. Read here about the people striking back with a guy in America shooting a traffic cop and don’t think it will be the last. People are getting fed up and see plod as the enemy.
As an interesting side-note it says in the article that DC has 10% of the red-light and speed cameras in the US but the total is only 290. I can believe that they have 10% because they certainly sound like a mini UK with plod concentrating on motorists and not criminals but that means they only have 3000 in the whole of the US. I don’t believe that. Hell, we have more than that in London alone and a good earner it is for our thieving government and at no risk. Yet.