Real Time Speed Trap Alerts
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I’ve lived in or near large cities all my life, save for the few years I was in college in a small West Virginia town. I was born and raised in the Washington, DC area. I live near Tampa, Florida now. Traffic is just a part of daily life.
As much as I appreciate having traffic cops at the ready for things like accidents and tracking dangerous drivers, I am absolutely not charmed when I drive by and see a speed trap. Who is? I suppose I see more worth in that same officer being out and about patrolling potential aggressive drivers than just sitting on the side of the road radaring passing cars.
Have you heard of Trapster(TM) Speed Trap Sharing System for Mobile Phones? It’s an ingenious system for your mobile phone. If you see a speed trap, you can simply press a button on your phone to port the location. Then, as other drivers using the service get ready to pass the same trap, they will receive a beep on their phone to alert them. How cool is that?
Best of all, the whole thing is free. And, it works in real time.
You can download the free program to your cell phone for the best results, or you can just opt to participate by calling in reports to a toll free number and receiving alerts via SMS.
So, how is Trapster different from all of the other speed trap notification sites? Its location based and as I said before, it works in real time. And, it’s not just for speed traps. It is also for speed cameras and other road hazards. Again, in real time.
I bought this TomTom satnav for Christmas that has this same function. It relies on other drivers to report the speed traps.
However, how many do you think would actually bother? For the TomTom one you have to pay a yearly fee so I haven’t tried it yet but is it really that good?
Since it is a free service, it would be absolutely worth downloading to try yourself. It does rely on other people reporting the traps, but the more people who use it…the more reports. So, getting the word out is important.