CopFind - collaborative project to log speed traps

by kkim • 19 years ago

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edw519• 19 years ago

Why do I have to register to use?

tocomment4• 19 years ago

Yeah, 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• 19 years ago

This is spam. Take a look at where their 404 pages redirect: http://copfind.com/asdf

goes to:

http://myspacegateway.com/

I wouldn't register... seems really sketchy.

nickb• 19 years ago

How do you (or whoever runs this site) deal with constantly changing locations? How do you deal with time component?

daniel-cussen• 19 years ago

Startups are getting pretty marginal.

rokhayakebe• 19 years ago

Good 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.

tocomment4• 19 years ago

Or 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?

nirs2• 19 years ago

Even 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.

zhyder4• 19 years ago

Does this pass the "do no evil", or the "improve users' lives" tests? Unknown speed traps are arguably good for us.

ajmoir3• 19 years ago

Arguable 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.

zhyder4• 19 years ago

Of 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?

jasonlotito• 19 years ago

People break the law. People are fined. You call it revenue generation. I call it being smart. Can you really propose that if police know where to catch people committing crimes they should avoid the place and not go after these people?

Goladus• 19 years ago

As far as I'm concerned, something like this would definitely pass the "free press" test. Free press being an important component of democracy, which is where the "arguably" in "arguably good for us" is actually put to use.

ereldon• 19 years ago

quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

CopFind - collaborative project to log speed traps

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