This is a non story. It encourages people to slow down. It doesn’t matter that they’re encouraged to slow down through slightly less than honest means.
That’s brilliant! Shame that one of them went and spilled the beans though.
Doesn’t Waze work ‘democratically’ — e.g. more weight will be given to multiple reports than single reports? Feels like it’s ripe for abuse otherwise (this, but potentially more) and they should fix that loophole.
Odd how they can be dishonest about this and be praised.
Dishonesty is dishonesty no matter the cause.
Wait till little find out that the “unmarked police cars operate in this area” signs aren’t always accurate.
What sort of lazy hack tries to turn this stuff into a story?
Creative use of an app potentially saves some lives, and the media turn this into a negative story? Give your head a wobble.
“Creating Phantom units”
i mean whats wrong with inflatable police cars?
I actually don’t see the issue with this.
If this upsets you then you need to get a life
“Moan, Moan, whinge, whinge – oh dear we don’t know when it is safe to break the law anymore and we might get caught doing so – moan, moan, whinge, whinge”. Oh boo bloody hoo. Who cares if the old bill are deceiving people into slowing down – if it means that the arseholes out there are not doing more then the permitted maximum then so fricking what? The police are there to deter people from breaking the law as well as to catch to knob-cheddars that do.
Deterring someone from doing something stupid is a whole lot better than prosecuting them afterwards.
Police lying, creating phantom units. Just everyday policing in the United Kingdom. Corruption and fraud to the core.
I live near a royal estate. There are rust covered signs saying unmarked police bikes are patrolling the area. You can probably see where I’m going with this…
I don’t think this would work anyway as a user passing is asked to confirm if the car is still there or not. Feels like the police have just caused agro for a very time limited benefit.
Also to clarify, this doesn’t justify speeding or committing other traffic offences.
‘Oh no, I started driving legally even though there wasn’t a police car there’
Can we also talk about the “obstruction” warnings on the motorway that last for 5 miles and that never in my life have I seen an obstruction 🤔 often in areas of many speed cameras too
Are they just overzealous? Never seen anything like it in Europe
I don’t like lying but when you’re lying to catch criminals…Its not so bad.
Blimey, a lot of authoritarianism fanboys in this thread!
Great idea. People speed down my road. <downloads Waze>
Seems like a great use of technology to “enforce” the law with next to no cost.
So the police arent actually lying in any way and the only epeople who are actually affected by this are ones who would otherwise be speeding and the vast majority of whom are also using a phone app while driving?
Absolutely ridiculous. How will I drive like a twat now when I think there’s police around, might have to actually drive the speed limit now !
The real story is that the English police have shown a degree of intelligence and cunning hitherto thought impossible.
You missed the deleted pist and came in without context. OK.
So, is it ilegal, I don’t see what’s the problem.
LoL! Say you want to be a criminal without saying you want to be a criminal.
No different from the ‘speed camera’ signs where there are no cameras, just a sign to make you cautious. If people are speeding and it gets them to slow down, especially in known hazard/black spot areas, go for it.
Snapple carbonara
After publicly bragging about it just wait for an engineer at Google to make police warnings in Surrey require at least 2 reports before appearing
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This is a non story. It encourages people to slow down. It doesn’t matter that they’re encouraged to slow down through slightly less than honest means.
That’s brilliant! Shame that one of them went and spilled the beans though.
Doesn’t Waze work ‘democratically’ — e.g. more weight will be given to multiple reports than single reports? Feels like it’s ripe for abuse otherwise (this, but potentially more) and they should fix that loophole.
Odd how they can be dishonest about this and be praised.
Dishonesty is dishonesty no matter the cause.
Wait till little find out that the “unmarked police cars operate in this area” signs aren’t always accurate.
What sort of lazy hack tries to turn this stuff into a story?
Creative use of an app potentially saves some lives, and the media turn this into a negative story? Give your head a wobble.
“Creating Phantom units”
i mean whats wrong with inflatable police cars?
I actually don’t see the issue with this.
If this upsets you then you need to get a life
“Moan, Moan, whinge, whinge – oh dear we don’t know when it is safe to break the law anymore and we might get caught doing so – moan, moan, whinge, whinge”. Oh boo bloody hoo. Who cares if the old bill are deceiving people into slowing down – if it means that the arseholes out there are not doing more then the permitted maximum then so fricking what? The police are there to deter people from breaking the law as well as to catch to knob-cheddars that do.
Deterring someone from doing something stupid is a whole lot better than prosecuting them afterwards.
Police lying, creating phantom units. Just everyday policing in the United Kingdom. Corruption and fraud to the core.
I live near a royal estate. There are rust covered signs saying unmarked police bikes are patrolling the area. You can probably see where I’m going with this…
I don’t think this would work anyway as a user passing is asked to confirm if the car is still there or not. Feels like the police have just caused agro for a very time limited benefit.
Also to clarify, this doesn’t justify speeding or committing other traffic offences.
‘Oh no, I started driving legally even though there wasn’t a police car there’
Can we also talk about the “obstruction” warnings on the motorway that last for 5 miles and that never in my life have I seen an obstruction 🤔 often in areas of many speed cameras too
Are they just overzealous? Never seen anything like it in Europe
I don’t like lying but when you’re lying to catch criminals…Its not so bad.
Blimey, a lot of authoritarianism fanboys in this thread!
Great idea. People speed down my road. <downloads Waze>
Seems like a great use of technology to “enforce” the law with next to no cost.
So the police arent actually lying in any way and the only epeople who are actually affected by this are ones who would otherwise be speeding and the vast majority of whom are also using a phone app while driving?
Absolutely ridiculous. How will I drive like a twat now when I think there’s police around, might have to actually drive the speed limit now !
The real story is that the English police have shown a degree of intelligence and cunning hitherto thought impossible.
You missed the deleted pist and came in without context. OK.
So, is it ilegal, I don’t see what’s the problem.
LoL! Say you want to be a criminal without saying you want to be a criminal.
No different from the ‘speed camera’ signs where there are no cameras, just a sign to make you cautious. If people are speeding and it gets them to slow down, especially in known hazard/black spot areas, go for it.
Snapple carbonara
After publicly bragging about it just wait for an engineer at Google to make police warnings in Surrey require at least 2 reports before appearing