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CopFind - collaborative project to log speed traps
- edw519 19y agoWhy do I have to register to use?
- tocomment 19y agoYeah, I almost tried it but didn't. I wonder why I feel such a barrier to registration? It just takes 5 seconds, but it feels like there's some other cost.
- quickpost 19y agoThis is spam. Take a look at where their 404 pages redirect: http://copfind.com/asdf http://copfind.com/asdf goes to: http://myspacegateway.com/ http://myspacegateway.com/ I wouldn't register... seems really sketchy.
- nickb 19y agoHow do you (or whoever runs this site) deal with constantly changing locations? How do you deal with time component?
- daniel-cussen 19y agoStartups are getting pretty marginal.
- rokhayakebe 19y agoGood idea, Bad technology, Bad implementation. For this to add value it must me something totaly mobile. It has to be a small GPS app that user can have on their phone, that detects their proximity to one of these spot and send them a text message or gives them a call.
- tocomment 19y agoOr what if you could tell it routes you normally take and at what times, and it will email or text message you if there is cop activity. Maybe you could just subscribe to a road or a location?
- nirs 19y agoEven better: your phone will check for cops on your way, using GPS. When you locate a cop, you can report him in real time, and someone driving 200m behind you, using the same site, will get an alert.
- tocomment 19y agoPhones don't really have GPS though, right? And there's no easy way to write software that uses it even if it is there.
- nirs 19y agoThe phone network can locate your phone - so your phone can also know its location even without GPS. If your phone knows your location, and is connected to the web, it can work.
- tocomment 19y agoIf you can tell me how to do this using only a website (no phone specific programming) it would dovetail nicely into a startup idea I'm considering. I figured it would require getting users to install my software on their phone somehow, dealing with phone companies, and learning something called "Symbian".
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- zhyder 19y agoDoes this pass the "do no evil", or the "improve users' lives" tests? Unknown speed traps are arguably good for us.
- ajmoir 19y agoArguable how? To my mind they are nothing but revenue generation. A visible speed trap is far more defensible. Not vague warnings but highly visible specific identification. Even better put these speed traps where they are most likely to save lives not in locations were they are most likely to catch excess speed. e.g. put them outside schools not on the freeway, put them at the entrance to towns not a mile outside. The speed trap should ticket everyone in excess of the limit. Currently the police use them and discard enormous amount of minor infringements concentrating on the relatively few high speed infringements. This is masking the true nature of the data i.e. the speed limit is too low. Teh correct course of action is to raise the speed limits in certain areas e.g. freeways and rural. Lastly, tickets by camera should not be part of a police forces performance reviews, they should be noted but not used to justify or discredit anything about the forces performance.
- zhyder 19y agoOf the traffic tickets I and my friends have received, most were useful in actually reminding us to drive more carefully. Occasionally you hear of someone getting an unfair ticket: I think that's the exception rather than the rule. I hate getting tickets as much as anyone else, and I've gotten my share of them. But I still don't use radar detectors, and won't use this service. "A visible speed trap is far more defensible." As long as the speed limit is clearly visible, why should the trap itself be visible?
- ajmoir 19y agoIf you are happy with the posted speed limits and see the police as only law enforcement then nothing I have to say will make a difference.
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- ereldon 19y agoquis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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