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ATTENTION CONTROL !!! * USA - Smile! You're on Candid Camera!
Click and ticket! Your next ticket might come from the 'puter posse
USA -Trucker Talk/Truck Blog -5 May 2008: -- More cities and states are turning to surveillance cameras to nab speeders and red light-runners. Called "photo-enforcement technology," the strategically placed cameras catch you red-handed, taking a picture of your license plate as you speed through the intersection or down the highway. The ticket arrives some weeks later in the mail, long after you've already forgotten that little infraction you thought you got away with... Municipalities and states are using traffic cameras instead of more costly troopers to pick up some of the slack... Safety is the reason most government entities give for installing cameras, but critics say their motives are equally driven by the lure of quick cash...
* ... AND THE SOLUTION: SpeedTrap Available:
USA -njection -5 May 2008: -- With an enforcement camera, "you can pick off 20 people an hour, easily," complained Shannon Atkinson, president of Njection... Atkinson's website merges Google maps with onsite reports from motorists pinpointing speed traps -- both human and electronic... SpeedTrap is a web application hybrid mash up that combines Microsoft Live Maps along with the ability to pinpoint and review speed traps located anywhere on the planet. The information shared by its members is placed into a database and can be viewed by anyone. SpeedTrap allows the average driver to avoid being pulled over and slapped with a ticket by informing them of local and national speeding surveillance hotspots. Auto insurance companies and state government offices profit from speeding tickets and fines but by exchanging information via SpeedTrap drivers are given an edge on the system, allowing them to drive safely and vigilantly on nearly any road worldwide... Njection just started supplying its speed trap technology to GPS navigation company Garmin with plans to add TomTom and others soon. Could be a good investment!...Labels: surveillance cameras
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