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Apple Maps in iOS 14 Warns Drivers of Speed and Red Light Cameras
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They need to add the ability to tag locations of police speed traps, road hazards, construction zones... like Waze, not just red-light cameras. They are continuing to fall behind in that respect.
Someday cars will auto report you speeding for points and automatically deduct the fee from your bank account.
This is actually interesting (and somewhat frightening) to think about. I know you made the comment in jest, but I honestly think drivers would go for it. Convenience is king. It reminds me of police cruisers experimenting with credit card payment systems years ago. Get pulled over for driving? Plead guilty and you can pay the fine on the spot and off you go, no need to show up in front of the judge.
We live in an age though where all kinds of vehicles share the road. I wonder how an advanced traffic system would be created to accommodate everyone?
We’re likely to see 5G installed into major roadways that will interface with newer car computers. Will 5G roads have the posted speed limit transmitted to these new cars, which will limit your ability to drive above the speed limit? I would bet money that’s how it’ll go.
How would we accommodate older “dumb” vehicles? Maybe a “subscription” system where everyone who signs up can go 65mph on the highway, but drivers who pay a little more can go between 65-75mph without incurring fines or points. Drive above 75mph and you’ll be heavily fined and deducted points no matter what, except if you’re an emergency vehicle.
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This is illegal in Germany. I don't know if Apple will push this feature in Germany.
Or just move to Texas...
Texas banned the use of red cameras in 2019.
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Texas banned the use of red cameras in 2019.
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i’d like to be able to set my cruise control based on the current speed limit.
Why should this be illegal? Most, if not all states, require speed and red light cameras to be clearly marked as upcoming on the highway as is. Giving you a notice in Maps allows you to pay closer attention to traffic as you're approaching these areas. Which is important because even if you're not speeding or running a red light you may see traffic act in very unpredictable ways like someone slamming on their brakes to avoid the camera.
The goal of traffic laws and enforcement shouldn't be to bring down ban hammers on people every chance that can be found. Nor should it be to make as much revenue as possible either. It should be driven by traffic studies on the road to reduce injuries and fatalities.
Where I live in the NE US if you do the speed limit on the highway/interstate (which is capped at 55MPH) you'll constantly have traffic flying up to your bumper then rapidly merging around you as you're usually moving ~20 MPH below the speed of all other traffic. The most important thing on the road is to be predictable and move consistent to traffic around you as outliers in either direction can lead to crashes. The speed limit on the road should be adjusted to match the flow of traffic and dynamically adjusted for congestion and weather like I saw in the NL. After all, speed limits can be unsafe too!
Drive the speed limit!!! Quit breaking the laws! It’s not difficult.
If you've ever been to Russia and driving on their highways it's normal to speed and it's normal to be pulled over. But unlike the west you are expected to bribe the police for a small pittance. They hate to fill out the paperwork and are really annoyed if you refuse to give them a bribe.
Yep, a number do and it is something Apple should do too.
Steering wheel controls or buttons on the radio should still work while maps is up.
The “getting there safely” pop up is annoying in maps. Looks like it only does it once at least.
it is, if their constantly up to date. They probably are initially, but the further you scale up worldwide, they probably loose that ability.. Keep thing simple..
Everyone has the internet....one place to get up to date speed info.... if each and every app chooses to do it... how accurate can you really be? Of course the argument frm that is "don't speed" so you won't even care about speed cameras
Good. When used correctly, the purpose of cameras is to increase safety, like putting them in a school zone. Too many cities are using them to generate revenue (put them at the bottom of a steep hill and calibrate it for 1mph over the limit) – hopefully features like these will encourage the former and discourage the latter.
Bzzt. What features like this do is encourage speeding except when maps says "woah Nelly! There's a speed camera here!"
The whole reason behind the way speed cameras are supposed to work is that you never know where they are so you don't speed anywhere. Sure, some municipal authorities are using them in the way you describe (and that's unfair and deserves criticism) but features that allow people who deliberately flout the law to do so without consequence are not the answer.
Unless maybe Apple randomly reports speed cameras where there aren't any. That could work.
I'm not so sure that it's not difficult. I frequently find myself in situations where, for a variety of reasons, the speed limit is way too slow for the circumstances, and it takes huge self control to crawl along when it is apparent that double the speed would not increase risk significantly. This creates a culture of people not following the limit when it actually is appropriate.
In the UK, cameras are highly visible and their locations published, because they are supposed to force you to slow down at accident hotspots, rather than catch you out here and there. At any one time, very few are actually operational. They are deterrents rather than revenue generators. We have a draconian points system (the fines are little more than a minor annoyance), and if they hid these things and made them all active, people would be losing their licences all of the time, and the public would rebel against the use of cameras. Policing has to be by public consent. So, our cameras deter and their location can be published on mapping apps etc.
Bzzt. Some people here live in municipalities that break the public trust to an insane degree. A few years ago, I lived in a city that outsourced speed cameras to a company and gave them a % cut of every ticket's fines. Guess what happened next? People were getting fraudulent, false tickets left and right (it was even documented by the local paper who tested and verified these claims) because the company was fixing the cameras to write tickets for people who weren't even breaking the law.
Besides, most cities require locations to be posted with notifications upstream on the road anyway and publish their locations, so people who really want to flout the law and go 200mph on some stretch of highway can just look it up.
Believe me, I'm all for ticketing people who drive like maniacs, but cameras, especially in the US, have not been implemented well.
In the U.K. that is certainly not how speed cameras are supposed to work. They have to be high visibility and there must be signed warnings of their use. They are there to discourage speeding, not catch speeders (though they will do the latter if they don’t succeed in the former). If the camera is in anyway hidden, either intentionally (it is illegal to hide or camouflage a camera) or say for an example, an overgrown tree prevents you seeing it, you cannot be prosecuted. It is supposed to prevent speeding in the same way as when a traffic officer does as he is driving at the speed limit down the motorway. Dummy cameras are used extensively also (they are real cameras just not activated) and again, not knowing which cameras are activated (They change) also acts as a deterrent. You are allowed to use a notification system for fixed cameras but not for mobile cameras (temporary positions, e.g. police cameras).
Not withstanding that, in many countries in Europe, e.g. France it is illegal to use any notification system and you face on the spot fines if you are caught using them. In Germany you are warned of their use, but the camera doesn’t need to be high visibility (though I think that is changing now)
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The only ticket that I ever got was from a Photo Radar trap, and I wasn't even speeding excessively or for a long duration. It's was literally accidental for a brief 5 seconds and I immediately self-corrected, but there goes the flash! Was not worth the trip to the courthouse in the next city just to challenge it. Photo Radar was eventually eliminated from our province after a year, but now red-light cameras and automated speed-trap cameras are being installed all around the province.
I don't have any problem with anything that gets drivers attentions. Too many have zero regard for others on the road. Ironically, the "need for speed" also increases daily stress which leads to shorter life spans. Go figure! You're speeding your way to your death bed! If more people just slowed down and enjoyed the ride, they'd live longer!
I don't have any problem with anything that gets drivers attentions. Too many have zero regard for others on the road. Ironically, the "need for speed" also increases daily stress which leads to shorter life spans. Go figure! You're speeding your way to your death bed! If more people just slowed down and enjoyed the ride, they'd live longer!
That’s a myth best left in the 1980s. My personal vehicle is a German car and I have access to various vehicles for work, most Asian and some American. I have also owned many cars from many different manufacturers over the years. Although I love my German car, the other cars are not ”woefully outdated”. Yes that was true in the past but that really has not been true for several decades.
You know how they set speed limits? You measure free-flowing traffic and set it so that the fastest 15% of the cars are over the limit. "85th percentile rule". So by definition, people will be speeding.
