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Police chief denounces 'cowardly' iPhone users monitoring speed traps [DC angry about lost $]
Washington Examiner ^
Posted on 07/07/2009 10:00:19 AM PDT by RatherBiased.com
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To: bamahead
If such a thing catches on in VA, they’ll probably ban iPhones in cars, and treat them as if they were radar detectors.
101
posted on
07/08/2009 9:24:57 PM PDT
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: bamahead
102
posted on
07/08/2009 10:14:24 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(Xin loi minh oi)
To: RatherBiased.com
Just now got that software on my Blackberry... screw a bunch of revenue hounds!
103
posted on
07/08/2009 10:58:27 PM PDT
by
dcwusmc
(We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
To: All
For the tech guys out there, I just an iTouch and am not familiar with all it’s capabilities yet. Would this app work for it, or does it require being connected to the internet at all times?
104
posted on
07/09/2009 5:40:49 AM PDT
by
JenB987
To: Charles Martel
ONe of the nice features of the I-phone app is that it is now using the text “push” technology with version 3.0.
IOn addition to the fixed locations from the trapster database, it now sends “Live” alerts if someone sees a speed trap, check point, accident etc and sends it in.
You will get these alerts based on your GPS location even if the app is not running.
I got one on the way home last night that allowed me to avoid an accident/traffic tie up and plan an alternate route home.
105
posted on
07/09/2009 5:51:45 AM PDT
by
commish
(Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it.)
To: JenB987
It requires the GPS system that is in the iPhone, not sure if the iTouch has that capability.
106
posted on
07/09/2009 5:53:11 AM PDT
by
commish
(Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it.)
To: commish
In addition to the fixed locations from the trapster database, it now sends Live alerts if someone sees a speed trap, check point, accident etc and sends it in. You will get these alerts based on your GPS location even if the app is not running.
Sweet. I didn't know the system updated on a real-time basis. I guess I know what my next cellphone will be.
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posted on
07/09/2009 6:49:15 AM PDT
by
Charles Martel
("Endeavor to persevere...")
To: SaintDismas
>You got that right. My spouse and I call policemen revenue enhancers. That is their main function now.<
there are still good cops out there that do what they should be doing, trying to protect us from the criminal elements of society.
108
posted on
07/09/2009 10:20:39 AM PDT
by
Munz
("We're all here for you OK? It's a circle of love" Rham Emanuel)
To: Cyclone59
I thought those cameras (speed and stop light) were supposed to get folks to drive in a more sane manner, so why, rhetorical question, is the police department mad that the citizens are using their iPhones to do the same? Because the enforcement works on the principle that you don't know when or where it is, so the driver must remain within the law at all times. If the locations are known, then there are two options:
- this allows people to violate the safe behavior/law, or
- we must increase law enforcement coverage so it is EVERYWHERE.
Any conservative/libertarian who cannot see the implications of this has not thought it through. All these comments do is make a mockery of conservatism--by making it look like it wants to have a police state--or libertarianism--by making it look like it wants to evade the rule of law.
Just because these tools can be used as a revenue device does not make the chief's remarks invalid.
109
posted on
07/10/2009 1:17:28 AM PDT
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: bamahead; jan in Colorado
Should have pinged you to
#109
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posted on
07/10/2009 1:19:14 AM PDT
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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