Well they are quite literally developing an app designed to let people snitch on each other to the authorities. Who does that?
Well if you don’t speed you have nothing to worry about and don’t actually care if someone uses
Will it enable me to snitch on idiots who drive unnecessarily slowly on 50 and 60mph roads in perfect conditions then too? Bad driving is not limited to people who speed.
How would this even work legally? Don’t speed cameras or speed guns have to be calibrated? Not sure a randoms iPhone would meet the same legal standards.
Pricks in BMWs mowing parents kids down is just another shitty side effect of the way UK society puts everything that is Car first.
The insane entitlement of some car owners in the UK and they’re believe they have a god given right to go as fast as they want wherever they want is disgusting. They have no respect for human life.
So here I am on Google steetview trying to find a way to playgroup that has good enough footpaths for me not to have to cross or walk on roads so that my daughter doesn’t get accidentally killed.
People think this is about catching somebody doing 40 in a 30 it’s not. It’s about stopping twats doing 70 in a 30.
Amazing, people who are dangerous drivers turn out to be dangerous in other ways. I’m shocked, SHOCKED. Well, not that shocked.
Speeding is almost socially acceptable in the UK and hugely entitled motorists will get ridiculously defensive about their apparent right to break the law without consequence.
The whole “snitches get stitches” nonsense is pushed by bullies and people who want to abuse their priviledges to get away with stuff. Living in society means you largely have to follow the same rules that everyone else has to.
100% guaranteed that this totalitarian dream of an app will leak to a massive data breach of some sort.
Well.
Would love to know how any of the data sent could ever be used in court.
The police have to prove their equipment has been calibrated correctly if you challenge it. what are they going to do in this instance? Get the apps source code to CPS for scrutiny? As if they’d know.
Also would this be dependent on an individual device’s GPS / camera bei g entirely accurate? Same again, do we scrutinise every galaxy models O/S to ensure its accurate?
Bunch of wank.
Speeding is a massive issue in my village. We have a long straight road, next to a kids park, where the speed limit is 30mph. It’s not uncommon to see people driving 50mph along that road. It’s one miss kicked football from a kid getting killed. On the rare occasion that the police do come out they always report that they catch a lot of drivers doing excessive speed. One motorcyclist was caught doing nearly 80mph. I foresee this app getting a lot of use in my village.
The app is useless and offensive because it was never about attaining its headline goal. It was all about charging busybodies for recording what they considered to be bad drivers. It used the ‘speeding panic’ hysteria to make money, but it cant even be used for that, so ultimately all can do is be a video recorder.
The police dont have the resources to trawl through footage from this app. They already get loads of videos sent to them which are ignored.
Easily solved issue. Increase the national speed limit to 90mph. Then anywhere you don’t want fast cars just make the pavements wider or allow street parking.
I run self drive tours to the UK. Covering 5000 miles
What I can say is that…
the majority of British drivers are very good
You are the most camera’d country in the world.
You have too many speed controls. While driving the UK, you have 10, 20 ,30 ,40 ,50, 60 & 70 speed limits? Surely this could be streamlined to 10, 30, 50 & 70?
I asked a UK motorway cop where I could get the special Audi & Jag Licenses, as it seemed they were the only two makes flashing their lights at me and wanting to pass when I was already doing 70 in the fast lane, which was the limit! They obviously weren’t concerned about speeding at all!
A good step to reduce speedsters was changing from straight cash fines to demerit points and the introduction of long distance speed cameras. These definitely work in the areas I’ve seen them used, mainly Scotland, but as soon as they are through them speed increases.
One simple way to knock it out is a wheel speedometer tracking system, or even a GPS system, similar to what trucks use, so when you go get your vehicle mechanically checked, they read the meter and bill you for your speeding fines. Of course this could only be used for open road speeding fines, but as they say, “the faster you go, the bigger the mess”
Everyone speeds occasionally, sometimes it’s safer to like if you are overtaking
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Well they are quite literally developing an app designed to let people snitch on each other to the authorities. Who does that?
Well if you don’t speed you have nothing to worry about and don’t actually care if someone uses
Will it enable me to snitch on idiots who drive unnecessarily slowly on 50 and 60mph roads in perfect conditions then too? Bad driving is not limited to people who speed.
How would this even work legally? Don’t speed cameras or speed guns have to be calibrated? Not sure a randoms iPhone would meet the same legal standards.
Pricks in BMWs mowing parents kids down is just another shitty side effect of the way UK society puts everything that is Car first.
The insane entitlement of some car owners in the UK and they’re believe they have a god given right to go as fast as they want wherever they want is disgusting. They have no respect for human life.
So here I am on Google steetview trying to find a way to playgroup that has good enough footpaths for me not to have to cross or walk on roads so that my daughter doesn’t get accidentally killed.
People think this is about catching somebody doing 40 in a 30 it’s not. It’s about stopping twats doing 70 in a 30.
Amazing, people who are dangerous drivers turn out to be dangerous in other ways. I’m shocked, SHOCKED. Well, not that shocked.
Speeding is almost socially acceptable in the UK and hugely entitled motorists will get ridiculously defensive about their apparent right to break the law without consequence.
The whole “snitches get stitches” nonsense is pushed by bullies and people who want to abuse their priviledges to get away with stuff. Living in society means you largely have to follow the same rules that everyone else has to.
100% guaranteed that this totalitarian dream of an app will leak to a massive data breach of some sort.
Well.
Would love to know how any of the data sent could ever be used in court.
The police have to prove their equipment has been calibrated correctly if you challenge it. what are they going to do in this instance? Get the apps source code to CPS for scrutiny? As if they’d know.
Also would this be dependent on an individual device’s GPS / camera bei g entirely accurate? Same again, do we scrutinise every galaxy models O/S to ensure its accurate?
Bunch of wank.
Speeding is a massive issue in my village. We have a long straight road, next to a kids park, where the speed limit is 30mph. It’s not uncommon to see people driving 50mph along that road. It’s one miss kicked football from a kid getting killed. On the rare occasion that the police do come out they always report that they catch a lot of drivers doing excessive speed. One motorcyclist was caught doing nearly 80mph. I foresee this app getting a lot of use in my village.
The app is useless and offensive because it was never about attaining its headline goal. It was all about charging busybodies for recording what they considered to be bad drivers. It used the ‘speeding panic’ hysteria to make money, but it cant even be used for that, so ultimately all can do is be a video recorder.
The police dont have the resources to trawl through footage from this app. They already get loads of videos sent to them which are ignored.
Easily solved issue. Increase the national speed limit to 90mph. Then anywhere you don’t want fast cars just make the pavements wider or allow street parking.
I run self drive tours to the UK. Covering 5000 miles
What I can say is that…
the majority of British drivers are very good
You are the most camera’d country in the world.
You have too many speed controls. While driving the UK, you have 10, 20 ,30 ,40 ,50, 60 & 70 speed limits? Surely this could be streamlined to 10, 30, 50 & 70?
I asked a UK motorway cop where I could get the special Audi & Jag Licenses, as it seemed they were the only two makes flashing their lights at me and wanting to pass when I was already doing 70 in the fast lane, which was the limit! They obviously weren’t concerned about speeding at all!
A good step to reduce speedsters was changing from straight cash fines to demerit points and the introduction of long distance speed cameras. These definitely work in the areas I’ve seen them used, mainly Scotland, but as soon as they are through them speed increases.
One simple way to knock it out is a wheel speedometer tracking system, or even a GPS system, similar to what trucks use, so when you go get your vehicle mechanically checked, they read the meter and bill you for your speeding fines. Of course this could only be used for open road speeding fines, but as they say, “the faster you go, the bigger the mess”
Everyone speeds occasionally, sometimes it’s safer to like if you are overtaking