ngl wish there was one I could use for people on phones while sitting on topdeck of bus, easily 1 in 10 drivers
Alright. This might be very useful on helping with this issue.
Unless you can hear a speeding car coming from a mile away, or it’s a repeat offender, surely the chances are they’ll have passed you by the time you’ve pulled the app up and recorded the vehicle?
Plus this could lead to a rise in arseholes mugging people they think are videoing them speeding, at the sight of them holding a phone up anywhere near them.
*Plus* as the comments in the article already said, it’s unlikely to be admissible in court – unless perhaps it’s as clear cut as doing 70 in a 30 and *obvious* speeding / wreckless driving.
This is only meaningful if the police will actually do anything with the submissions.
Evidence from an uncalibrated speed camera isn’t admissible so video sent in by Hyacinth and filmed on a potato won’t be.
What would be usefull is if they would act on videos of other driving crimes though.
I’m much more bothered about people driving on their phones tbh.
I’ve thought for a while the natural evolution of dash cameras are for them to become tools used by the police for speeding and tailgating…
UK government outsourcing the police job to citizen and not paying them for it either well done -.-
Speed cameras need regular calibration checks otherwise their evidence is invalid. I can’t see a tablet held on a street corner by someone untrained is going to stand up in court.
Yay another opportunity for self-appointed and self-rightous nobs to police the rest of us.
I’m beginning to think that it’ll be cheaper to just Uber and Bolt it everywhere.
Next, ppl will report homes with a visible smartphone in the window and that unit of local kickboxing enthusiast who was taking his M5 up to a ton in a 30 will pay them a visit. Snitches get stitches.
Seems sus, one of the app reviews
>Seems like a revenue generator for the developer. Not accurate in basic mode. You get 20 credits for free. Topup costs £15 for 1000 credits. Feels odd for individuals to be paying to police the streets themselves. May appeal to people with nothing better to do, who likely wont be able to afford the credit fees.
uBlock complains about the outbound links from OP’s article, also seems sus.
Rod king, founder of 20s plenty. That’s gotta be an early April fools joke right?
> is currently being trialled by volunteers from the **20’s Plenty For Us charity, which campaigns for lower speed limits.**
christ some people need to get a life
On the one hand, this level of snitching motherfuckery is not something anybody should endorse. And on the other hand this level of snitching motherfuckery is not something anybody should endorse.
Wasn’t a website setup years ago when dash cams where becoming a thing for this
The app has a rating of 1.3/5 on the Google Play store. It would seem you get 20 free ‘credits’ and then have to purchase 1000 credits for £15. It’s just a money grab service and has nothing to do with the police. The police will not be able to act on your report from the app.
This hasn’t been approved by the powers that be, and there’s no indication that it would be. Nothing to see here.
It’s interesting as it’s crowd sourced state surveillance, the submissions surely will correlate with the public’s appetite to see people who speed be punished.
I live near Birmingham U.K and there are huge issues with idiots rat running through quiet streets at 65mph +.
Not sure where you’re from but when I imagine people using this app it’s for when the is a clear and massive breaking of set speed limits that obviously causes a threat to life.
Here is an example of something that is all too common in the UK:
IMO the UK public has no interest in cyber-snitching people that do 40 in a 30 but probably would love to stop the owner of the car that consistently hammers it up their 20mph limit road at 60mph every evening. Especially if they have kids that play on that street.
I’m just sick of reading stories about babies getting killed by drivers doing 3x the limit, maybe this app could help them think twice.
I can appreciate the opinion that it feels like state surveillance, but the fact it requires the complicity of the general public makes this a lot less underhanded than most passive mass surveillance.
Regardless of everyone’s stance I look forward to seeing the discussions relating to this.
This is literally an advert for someone’s money making scheme, not really appropriate for this sub reddit.
Excellent idea, the more wankers fined and eventually taken off the roads the better.
Sadly this won’t sort out the soft touch judges who let people off with “I need my car for work your honour” sob stories.
Oh lovely, the jumped up little Hitlers with nothing better to do will be salivating at this.
Does it work as well on someone who drives 30 on 50 because he is scared more?
Before slating something I always like to try it first. So I download it, sign up (pretty simple). In app you have to start recording before a car passes and hope it passes within the 2 seconds.
Now this is where the fun part begins. It doesn’t tell you that anythings been successfully captured, the button just lights up again. So I had a fairly chunky list of clips uploading. The app then went through a cycle of attempting to upload, failing, retrying, failing etc. Eventually the whole thing crashed and any attempt to go back to the captures page just crashed the app.
I had to uninstall as my phone was just constantly trying to upload these clips to their server.
In summary, it’s shit and likely doesn’t work.
Yes this is definitely what the UK needs, another step towards a fascist state full of people spying on their neighbours…
This seems like a rather convenient data gathering exercise on which citizens are willing to snitch on other citizens. Those people become useful under fascism.
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ngl wish there was one I could use for people on phones while sitting on topdeck of bus, easily 1 in 10 drivers
Alright. This might be very useful on helping with this issue.
Unless you can hear a speeding car coming from a mile away, or it’s a repeat offender, surely the chances are they’ll have passed you by the time you’ve pulled the app up and recorded the vehicle?
Plus this could lead to a rise in arseholes mugging people they think are videoing them speeding, at the sight of them holding a phone up anywhere near them.
*Plus* as the comments in the article already said, it’s unlikely to be admissible in court – unless perhaps it’s as clear cut as doing 70 in a 30 and *obvious* speeding / wreckless driving.
This is only meaningful if the police will actually do anything with the submissions.
Evidence from an uncalibrated speed camera isn’t admissible so video sent in by Hyacinth and filmed on a potato won’t be.
What would be usefull is if they would act on videos of other driving crimes though.
I’m much more bothered about people driving on their phones tbh.
I’ve thought for a while the natural evolution of dash cameras are for them to become tools used by the police for speeding and tailgating…
UK government outsourcing the police job to citizen and not paying them for it either well done -.-
Speed cameras need regular calibration checks otherwise their evidence is invalid. I can’t see a tablet held on a street corner by someone untrained is going to stand up in court.
Yay another opportunity for self-appointed and self-rightous nobs to police the rest of us.
I’m beginning to think that it’ll be cheaper to just Uber and Bolt it everywhere.
Next, ppl will report homes with a visible smartphone in the window and that unit of local kickboxing enthusiast who was taking his M5 up to a ton in a 30 will pay them a visit. Snitches get stitches.
Seems sus, one of the app reviews
>Seems like a revenue generator for the developer. Not accurate in basic mode. You get 20 credits for free. Topup costs £15 for 1000 credits. Feels odd for individuals to be paying to police the streets themselves. May appeal to people with nothing better to do, who likely wont be able to afford the credit fees.
uBlock complains about the outbound links from OP’s article, also seems sus.
Rod king, founder of 20s plenty. That’s gotta be an early April fools joke right?
> is currently being trialled by volunteers from the **20’s Plenty For Us charity, which campaigns for lower speed limits.**
christ some people need to get a life
On the one hand, this level of snitching motherfuckery is not something anybody should endorse. And on the other hand this level of snitching motherfuckery is not something anybody should endorse.
Wasn’t a website setup years ago when dash cams where becoming a thing for this
The app has a rating of 1.3/5 on the Google Play store. It would seem you get 20 free ‘credits’ and then have to purchase 1000 credits for £15. It’s just a money grab service and has nothing to do with the police. The police will not be able to act on your report from the app.
This hasn’t been approved by the powers that be, and there’s no indication that it would be. Nothing to see here.
It’s interesting as it’s crowd sourced state surveillance, the submissions surely will correlate with the public’s appetite to see people who speed be punished.
I live near Birmingham U.K and there are huge issues with idiots rat running through quiet streets at 65mph +.
Not sure where you’re from but when I imagine people using this app it’s for when the is a clear and massive breaking of set speed limits that obviously causes a threat to life.
Here is an example of something that is all too common in the UK:
https://www.expressandstar.com/news/crime/2022/03/28/baby-ciaran-updates-from-court-as-man-denies-killing-baby-in-brownhills-crash/
IMO the UK public has no interest in cyber-snitching people that do 40 in a 30 but probably would love to stop the owner of the car that consistently hammers it up their 20mph limit road at 60mph every evening. Especially if they have kids that play on that street.
I’m just sick of reading stories about babies getting killed by drivers doing 3x the limit, maybe this app could help them think twice.
I can appreciate the opinion that it feels like state surveillance, but the fact it requires the complicity of the general public makes this a lot less underhanded than most passive mass surveillance.
Regardless of everyone’s stance I look forward to seeing the discussions relating to this.
This is literally an advert for someone’s money making scheme, not really appropriate for this sub reddit.
Excellent idea, the more wankers fined and eventually taken off the roads the better.
Sadly this won’t sort out the soft touch judges who let people off with “I need my car for work your honour” sob stories.
Oh lovely, the jumped up little Hitlers with nothing better to do will be salivating at this.
Does it work as well on someone who drives 30 on 50 because he is scared more?
Before slating something I always like to try it first. So I download it, sign up (pretty simple). In app you have to start recording before a car passes and hope it passes within the 2 seconds.
Now this is where the fun part begins. It doesn’t tell you that anythings been successfully captured, the button just lights up again. So I had a fairly chunky list of clips uploading. The app then went through a cycle of attempting to upload, failing, retrying, failing etc. Eventually the whole thing crashed and any attempt to go back to the captures page just crashed the app.
I had to uninstall as my phone was just constantly trying to upload these clips to their server.
In summary, it’s shit and likely doesn’t work.
Yes this is definitely what the UK needs, another step towards a fascist state full of people spying on their neighbours…
This seems like a rather convenient data gathering exercise on which citizens are willing to snitch on other citizens. Those people become useful under fascism.