i-Phone users outsmart the system.
Area drivers looking to outwit police speed traps and traffic cameras are using an iPhone application and other global positioning system devices that pinpoint the location of the cameras.
That has irked D.C. police chief Cathy Lanier, who promised her officers would pick up their game to counteract the devices, which can also help drivers dodge sobriety checkpoints.
“I think that’s the whole point of this program,” she told The Examiner. “It’s designed to circumvent law enforcement — law enforcement that is designed specifically to save lives.”
The new technology streams to i-Phones and global positioning system devices, sounding off an alarm as drivers approach speed or red-light cameras.
Lanier said the technology is a “cowardly tactic” and “people who overly rely on those and break the law anyway are going to get caught” in one way or another.
The greater D.C. area has 290 red-light and speed cameras — comprising nearly 10 percent of all traffic cameras in the U.S., according to estimates by a camera-tracking database called the POI Factory.
Two hundred and ninety red light cameras! WOW!
This is great, perhaps the Boulder City Council should consider whether it’s worth the cost to add additional red light cameras! It’s a lot cheaper to extend the yellow light by 1 second, but there’s only one problem with that proposal, IT DOESN’T RAISE ANY MONEY!
Be sure and read the comments. Here’s one that sums it up…
miketheman
Jul 7, 2009I am heartened to read not one comment in support of the parasite class. It makes me believe there is still a fighting spirit left in this country
Hell, this is a great reason to get an i-phone, unfortunately I’m on Verizon. 😉
h/t to Instapundit.
