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Was this data only sold to Dutch police or to US police departments as well? The article is not very clear on this, but mentions Dutch police specifically. Rega
by guptaneil 16y ago
Was this data only sold to Dutch police or to US police departments as well? The article is not very clear on this, but mentions Dutch police specifically. Regardless, California drivers beware, police have been really cracking down hard on speeding since last month.
- Anechoic 16y ago> Was this data only sold to Dutch police or to US police departments as well? If the data was sold to US police departments, things could play out very differently. Highways under MUTCD jurisdiction (basically any roadway receiving FHWA funds) are supposed to set speed limits according to prevailing traffic conditions (specifically the 85th percentile speed, see http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/htm/2009/part2/part2b.htm#section2B13 http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/htm/2009/part2/part2b.htm#section2... ). A lot of times speed limits are set by statute with no engineering studies behind them to justify the limit. If the Tom Tom data point out that traffic is exceeding the speed limit at a location, that would be evidence that the posted limit is actually too low and the limit should be increased.
- khafra 16y agoIt's disturbing how seldom local jurisdictions follow the MUTCD. Just in case one does, though, I'm sometimes tempted to pull over next to those black-hoses-across-the-roadway speed measurement devices and spoof a lot of extremely fast traffic with a pair of hammers or something.