Police can be clever too...

We like it when the accumulated speed data from GPS devices helps us avoid traffic incidents and school zones. As it turns out, though, there are some other uses for the same stats. Dutch news outlet AD is reporting that such data captured by TomTom navigation devices has been purchased by the country's police force and is being used to determine where speed traps and cameras should be placed.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/27/tomt ... ine-ideal/

I think it's smart to use information to better deploy their resources.

there was a while on the NJ Turnpike where you'd pick up a TIME STAMPED ticket when you got on and then deliver it to a machine when you got off and paid your toll.

If the time it took you (time stamp on to time stamp off) required an average speed HIGHER than the speed limit, they mailed you a ticket.

people went nutz, they stopped.

people went nutz, they stopped.

I think this is the reaction with a lot of those types of things when people get the impression (correctly or not) that its less about safety, and more about revenue collection.

I think most people get that traffic has a 'natural' speed that most people travel and it doesn't have a whole lot to do with the actual speed limit, and they want the police to enforce if anyone is too far above or below that 'natural' flow... but not otherwise.