Because Apple Maps look pretty, do not track our moves too much and come preinstalled. It is a very good product indeed, just needs more energy put into it. 🖐
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Apple Maps Starts Showing Speed Camera Information in Additional Countries [Updated]
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Because Apple Maps look pretty, do not track our moves too much and come preinstalled. It is a very good product indeed, just needs more energy put into it. 🖐
I use it by default. The POI data is still not as good as Google Maps, but other than that it's very good for navigation. I've driven many thousands of miles with Apple Maps directions and only very rarely has it misdirected me (and I'm sure Google Maps has its share of glitches as well). Most of the time I arrive within a few minutes of when it said I would.
Just take the metro then... 🚇The new 'smart' motorway from Reading to West London may never exceed 50mph when complete. I think we averaged around 30 the other day.
Apple is more accurate than Google Maps, I had lots of trouble with GMaps while Apple was the one that is/was accurate.
It also took Google almost 1 year to change the location of my apartment(and of the rest of the Apartment complex).
I’m pretty sure they just wanted to show you the awesome picture 😂
Hardly Speed cameras tend to not influence traffic deaths but are in areas where revenue can be produced; even if drivers are safely traveling.
Oddly enough, I've never seen one in a school zone when the limit is reduced; a place where strict enforcement is warranted for safety.
And set reasonable speed limits. Don't drop from 45 to 25 at once, as some jurisdictions do and have a cop waiting near by. And you realize radar picks the strongest signal, not necessarily the closest one.
Personally, I like the laser gun speed detectors because they require a cop to identify a target and lock in, leaving much less room for errors.
If you're keeping up with traffic you may be doing 5 - 10 over in many areas and respecting the driversd around you.
As for red lights, be sure the yellow is long enough for a vehicle to safely make it through without it going red quickly to generate revenue and cause accidents.
Here's an interesting read:
Yellow Light Timing
There could be any number of reasons the ticket isn't valid, for example a lack of calibration of the radar unit to bad timing of the light. So let me go to court to fight it rather than it be an administrative hearing run by someone that is not a judge, and may be an employee of the company that gets a cut of the revenue.
It is not unusual to pick up a few mph going down a grade and wind up 4 -5 over before you brake. Some jurisdictions have laws that do not allow ticketing for less than x over within Y distance of a Z grade for that reason.
This isn't about doing 90 in a 60 zone or driving recklessly, it's about what does a reasonable and prudent driver drive at and not using technology simply to enhance revenue in the name of "safety." If you don't think that happens, do some Google searches.
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Some people still curse Apple maps while not been using it for years, it's on par or better, in my case, it's more accurate than Apple Maps.
Something I will never understand, that people accept this. The state as trapper. Very bad!
If you can't drive in accordance with the relevant laws/limits then surrender your license. They should increase fines and penalties for bad driving. In the UK 5 people on average are killed per week as a result of bad driving.
If my memory serves correctly, France has banned this sort of practice since the glory days of TomTom.
I wonder if France will cling to such policies in the future?
I wonder if France will cling to such policies in the future?
Lots of people use Waze in France and Waze shows the speed cameras (calling them “zones of control” here) left and right with no issues. Sometimes you see it marked as a camera, at times - as a police icon. France has their share of tech-regulating ideas, yet no actual way of implementing their restrictions. 🤷🏻♂️
Fair enough, next time your wheels touch a center line or the side line, surrender your license. Next time you stop past the stop lie at a stop sign surrender your license for not being able to follow traffic. laws.
Oddly enough, that doesn't really work that well and results in increased traffic court congestion, which means with rocket dockets more cases to dismiss, as well as officers writing less tickets because they feel the fines are out of whack compared to the offense.
Then fix the problem with things that work; not with things that have little overall impact and may actually be counter productive.
Sounds like the AI Air Traffic Controller in X-Plane... Computers are still very stupid objects.
Buddy, I am not sure about the UK... But the police in the U.S make it so obvious they place the limits perfectly so they can generate revenue and satisfy the bribes from insurance and trucking lobbyists.
If you can't drive a car in a straight line at 80 mph in a safe manner, you might want to consider surrendering your license... Not the people who just want to drive a reasonable speed. Just because the government says a speed limit is a reasonable speed doesn't make it so.
Most people will disagree with your point unless you actually have something legitimate to back it up with. Your argument states 5 people are killed from "bad driving." Speeding isn't bad driving... Driving slower than everyone else on the road and not following yield laws properly is bad driving.
“overwhelming choice” is another red flag forum phrase, like “most people” or “the majority” or my personal favorite, “99%,” used when the poster really doesn’t know the number.
Regardless, no GPS UI system is worth my while unless it has reliable crowdsourced data, and you can’t have reliable crowdsourced data without a critical volume of active users. Waze has that. I don’t yet know if Apple Maps does, particularly for these new features.
This would be true if speed cameras were:
- installed with an overall goal of increasing traffic safety instead of maximizing fines revenue for the city
- administered by the city PD and not outsourced to private companies, who profit from the tickets
- located in places that are critical for safety rather than where people tend to drive a little faster but pose no danger
- etc.
You get my point.
Red light cameras are totally useless, except for increasing cities' revenues. In the U.S., most red light cameras have been removed. Typically a city like Fremont, CA, outsourced their red light cameras to a for-profit corporation. The yellow phase was than SHORTENED, to make sure more motorists are caught. I am not making this up, the city had to refund fines given at certain intersections during a certain period of time--if you received this information and remembered and filed the paperwork.
Cops do patrol the highway here (in CA), and normally (unless it's the end of the month and the cop hasn't yet met his ticket quota) do not pull over somebody going ~10 miles over the speed limit. Sometimes they do hide to "catch" motorists, and I do argue that that constitutes entrapment. I will give you an example. Driving in downtown San Jose. There's a pedestrian that crosses the road ahead of me. I am 4-5 blocks away. Turns out the pedestrian was a motorcycle cop, with BINOCULARS and a laser gun. It was impossible for me to spot him.
All of your excuses could be avoided if you don’t speed...
Don’t worry about “calibration”. I’ve sped by them before without tickets. They don’t whack you for 3 over. There is a statistical curve and you generally have to be going a significant speed (8+) over to get a ticket.
Keeping up with traffic isn’t an excuse.
There are reasons to argue against them, including the due process afterwards. But the reason the due process has been minimized is simply because of the fact they don’t hand out tickets to the 1 over the speed limit folks, the systems have calibration requirements, there are so many vehicles on the road, and people are strangely defensive about driving their cars... Road rage?
Above all... I’d rather have a ticket mailed to me than an officer STOP me, questions me, hold me while they write a ticket, and potentially deal with more questioning or searches.
Just don’t speed.
You're suggesting that even when people get fined automatically for running a red light, they still do it?
You really don't know what entrapment means do you?
I don't have any idea how big a city block is in any given city - but they seem to average about 200m in most cities, so he's about 1km away from you, I guess? And he was looking at you with binoculars and a "laser" speed gun... but it just looks like a pedestrian to you, right? So I just have one real question here, and I know it's kind of hard to answer.....
How did any of that cause you to be exceeding the speed limit?