For several days the news has been emerging in the media about certain apps that help many users to "dodge" police controls. These applications allow the user to warn others about the position of these same controls.
On the other hand, in the United States, Google's popular Waze app is being the center of attention by the American police because, according to them, it can inform any terrorist or malicious person of the position of an agent to "kill" him. It sounds weird but it is. From various media, the will of the police in that country is already being collected for Waze to eliminate the functionality of notifying that there is an agent located on a certain road. Something that may sound crazy but that we will see in the following weeks appear in the traditional media.
Are Radars Real Slot Machines?
Right here RACE mentioned in this regard that the radars were not placed on the roads with the highest accident rate, but the other way around, which were more of a collection measure. Something that we all know.
If we have the SPPME (professional union of municipal police) exposing Interior that SocialDrive (another app that warns of controls) endangers "All kinds of operations aimed at reducing crime, since it offers exhaustive data on the controls, and sometimes with photographs of these", we can come to think that the excuse is not really to prevent a driver who exceeds the permitted alcohol rate from going with his vehicle on the road, but rather that this application is leading to less fines being imposed.
While in the US Waze is an app for 'police killers'
It is a similar reason to which the police in the United States give where you are pressing to deactivate the Waze feature to warn other users that there is a police checkpoint within a certain kilometer. The excuse used here is that 'cop killers' could easily find them thanks to Waze. Seeing is believing but it is so.
With Waze we are talking about a social network that, in combination with GPS, helps the driver reach their destination more quickly, for example, by skipping a possible traffic jam when going on another road. Apart from that it also helps the police themselves when they are on the road of a highway attending to a stationary vehicle, so that drivers know it immediately and thus avoid an unfortunate collision. You may have already seen the odd video about the problem that police officers have in this regard.
Excuses in the face of the obvious
The thing about an app for 'police killers' and another like SocialDrive that is supposed to prevent the police from reducing crime are two but great excuses for the collection reality that everyone knows. The problem is that they try to make certain apps for mobile devices disappear and excuses are made to say that an app like Waze is actually used for other reasons.
Hopefully this does not imply that we see Waze with some functionality that another removed, when it offers a great service to users as well as to the police itself.
Any well-used tool has positive benefits, and if it is misused it has negative consequences. A very simple example, we are all taught to use knives to cut bread, peel potatoes, bone a chicken, etc etc ...
And there are people who use them to kill people.
And have knives been banned?
Maybe it is time to consider that the FIXED and MOBILE radars do not make sense and those that do are the section ones. I, who travel a lot on the road, is common to see kamikazes at 180 and more on highways and highways, and they know where the radars are and just at that moment they go like turtles and then again on fire. And it is not necessary to have an APP that tells you, they know where they are. So, put a section radar, if a person makes Santiago-Coruña in 25 minutes charge him 150 euros at the toll ... if he does it in 45 minutes, 2 euros.
Do a simple breathalyzer test, instead of mounting a spectacular paraphernalia, a car camouflaged for a vehicle that offers you suspicions of carrying alcohol, makes you blow and voila. BUT THAT'S EVERY DAY EVERY DAY, not just when they campaign. And when you finish then you follow your patrol and also fine the one who never uses the turn signal, or the one who always goes in the left lane, or the one who overtakes you just before reaching the highway exit and zassss crosses forcing you to hit a braking.
In the USA to ban weapons and allow a moderate use as in Europe and the problems are over. There are thousands of policemen on the streets, because they have an APP they will not charge some, the problem is in the misuse of weapons. So ready for some things in the USA and instead so short for others.