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Google maps (Speed Trap Ahead) and other notifications

madppcs

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  • Oct 23, 2011
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    So lately Ive been getting notifications of speed traps when using maps navigation app on my phone. It also asks me to confirm if the speed trap is still there. Ive also been notified that there are disabled vehicles on the shoulder.

    So this time while driving to work, I see a trooper on the far side of the overpass. I click on the road just ahead of my vehicle and a symbol appears and the center icon is (speed trap). So I click on that and it places a notification right where the trooper is so any one else using the nav app can see it. And obviously I could have put any other option, like broken vehicles
     
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    An app named WAZE has been doing this for forever, usually pretty accurate, but certainly not 100%
    This works due to the shear number of people reporting everything
    if WAZE starts to lose market share to google, it will become a less effective tool

    will make me curious to run both apps (two phones) and see how they compare in accuracy in different areas
     
    "Waze (formerly FreeMap Israel) is a GPS navigation app owned by Google"
     
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    Drive the speed limit, pay attention, and youll have no use for google maps.

    Admittedly, ill use Apple maps about twice a year when driving to places ive never been. I use it very rarely.
     
    Google has started pulling the data from Waze into Google Maps and adding some of the features.
    Waze is still a better pick if you want more updated traffic conditions & hazards.
     
    I’m sure the government will make a law not allowing the reporting of police locations

    They have tried many times and those who like to get down on their knees and lick boots were all for it.
    Fortunately anytime someone fought it all the way in court it was clearly ruled that you have the right to free speech and that includes speech the government doesn't like or finds inconvenient for the Government's purposes.
     
    I had no idea google owned waze, whatever, I have 6 phones, I hope they are collecting all the data on me and can't quit figure out which is the real me :D :D

    As long as the five oh location data is accurate

    Speed limits are stupidly and arbitrarily set and enforced, and are more about revenue generation than they are about safety. You should sign up for Progressive's Snapshot program (all good boot lickers do) if you are a speed limit nanny
    Snapshot: BIG discounts for good drivers (OUR opinion of good drivers, give us data to fuck you with)

    Don't get me started on stupid dangerous red light cameras, those cause rear end collisions to increase at any red light they are installed at.
     
    Google maps has integrate this into their mapping using information provided by Waze users and now allowing Google Maps users to do the same. Same real time data source, different looks. Use the one that pleases you.
     
    I don't own a cell-phone, and I'm PROUD of that fact. Mankind has lived for eons and eons without it/them, and now all-the-sudden people can't even do their own breathing or blinking without being told to by their thumbs......

    Beyond sad.
     
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    I don't own a cell-phone, and I'm PROUD of that fact. Mankind has lived for eons and eons without it/them, and now all-the-sudden people can't even do their own breathing or blinking without being told to by their thumbs......

    Beyond sad.

    But your on a computer/tablet replying to this thread? Please dont take that as a insult cause I mean no harm from it.
     
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    If they were truly concerned about safety, then seat belts would be mandatory on school buses for kids. But they cant fine/ticket a kid and make money from them.

    While I would not be opposed to seat belts on school buses, those vehicles are statistically about the safest damn things on the roads (less than 1 passenger death per billion miles traveled, which is astonishingly good). Goes to show what good behavior (both by the driver of the vehicle and by other drivers around the vehicle) can achieve.

    Seat belt *laws* may not have anything to do with safety, but seat belt *use* sure as heck does.
     
    I don't own a cell-phone, and I'm PROUD of that fact. Mankind has lived for eons and eons without it/them, and now all-the-sudden people can't even do their own breathing or blinking without being told to by their thumbs......

    Beyond sad.


    My ancestors fought wars without automatic firearms. One day a guy named Maxim came along and these days no goes to war without one.
     
    I don't use phone-based navigation.

    My in car navigation is stand alone and does nothing except passively receive TD signals from GPS satellites. No one can track that.
     
    Waze routing and real time traffic info has become nearly priceless to me. I HATE sitting in traffic. Rather sit in the office working waiting for a better time to leave. Avoiding accidents/closures while traveling real time is much better than sitting there wondering what's going on up ahead. Generally I'm watching those people as I'm taking a bypass.
     
    I regularly drive a 1600 mile round trip 2 maybe 3 times a year to visit friends/family
    The interstate highway systems on the east coast of the US are totally unreliable anymore.

    This once 12 hour drive (one way) can take 15 or 16 + hours due to road closures for a variety of stupid reasons. The last several years of trips (meaning like 4-5 trips) I have run into MAJOR highway closures every trip. Waze not only alerted me, but told me to detour in plenty of time to not have to sit in 2 hours of dead stopped traffic.

    I am not a fan of being tracked, I can make that drive in my sleep I have done it so many times, I do not need the GPS guidance, but knowing where the speed traps are and knowing where the road closures are make it worth using.
     
    I regularly drive a 1600 mile round trip 2 maybe 3 times a year to visit friends/family
    The interstate highway systems on the east coast of the US are totally unreliable anymore.

    This once 12 hour drive (one way) can take 15 or 16 + hours due to road closures for a variety of stupid reasons. The last several years of trips (meaning like 4-5 trips) I have run into MAJOR highway closures every trip. Waze not only alerted me, but told me to detour in plenty of time to not have to sit in 2 hours of dead stopped traffic.

    I am not a fan of being tracked, I can make that drive in my sleep I have done it so many times, I do not need the GPS guidance, but knowing where the speed traps are and knowing where the road closures are make it worth using.

    I have seen some of the most "interesting" parts of areas while on detours around traffic jams on major highways.

    Waze is typically pretty good with alternate routing, but damn there have been a few times Waze has sent me down some sketchy ass roads / goat paths on a detour. ?

    Although it has 100% worked out thus far. Only once did I think I heard banjo music. :cool:
     
    I have seen some of the most "interesting" parts of areas while on detours around traffic jams on major highways.

    Waze is typically pretty good with alternate routing, but damn there have been a few times Waze has sent me down some sketchy ass roads / goat paths on a detour. ?

    Although it has 100% worked out thus far. Only once did I think I heard banjo music. :cool:

    No need to panic unless that chicks voice changes and you hear: "Turn left in quota mile on sickimo skreet, you is in da hood, white boy"
     
    No need to panic unless that chicks voice changes and you hear: "Turn left in quota mile on sickimo skreet, you is in da hood, white boy"

    And there, you will be greeted with nothing but love, peace, and tolerance.