In the Quick this morning, on page 10, this is a "free" service, that will notify you of a speed trap by alerting you on your gps enabled smart phone, windows mobile, or blackberry! I'm skeptical of anything free unless advertisers are paying for the site but it sounds interesting.

Trapster.com

Apprently, if you see a speed trap, you punch in code into your phone and the trapster database will record your gps location thus indicating a speed trap is in that area. Trapster will maintain that location for an hour assuming that after an hour, the cop will have moved on.

Any use this yet?

 

Sounds interesting but what's to stop cops from putting up random fake speedtraps all over town

 

They are offer this same service for Garmin GPS devices as well...but its a PITA!!!

 

The article said the police didn't seem to mind the service since it causes people to slow down. In Highland Village, it isn't uncommon to see an unmanned cop car sitting there. I don't have a radar detector so I'm not sure if they leave the radar gun on or not but the cars sheer presence makes me check my speed, every time. I just know the one time that I think it is unmanned will be the day it IS manned.

 

Well I for one use it, and it's great! Of course I should disclose I'm not entirely unbiased, as it's my system/company! ;-)

 

i only speed when there alot of people speeding in front of me so when i see lots of red lights ahead i know theres a cop lol

 

lol coincidence!