10-12-2013, 09:44 AM
"Cruise control is your best friend, the traffic won't creep you higher and higher."
I'm curious to know from anyone with car GPS, is there a way to get your GPS to warn you audibly when you exceed the speed limit by more than some amount? It would require that your GPS know the posted speed along each road you travel, but it seems that these days that wouldn't be a very hard problem to solve. That would be a great thing to have.
As for "speed traps" in the popular sense. You'd have to have accident data to prove it one way or another. There's always the argument that just handing out tickets wherever you can get them deters speeding to some extent. This is almost certainly true, but it's still frustrating to see known danger zones, like highway/access road intersections, almost completely ignored by the cops in preference for the easy ticket places, like sudden speed limit changes. Personally, I would love to see a cop parked at each HPP highway access intersection during every rush hour. It might not be as glamorous as revving your Charger in pursuit of speeders, but it would be very welcome.
I'm curious to know from anyone with car GPS, is there a way to get your GPS to warn you audibly when you exceed the speed limit by more than some amount? It would require that your GPS know the posted speed along each road you travel, but it seems that these days that wouldn't be a very hard problem to solve. That would be a great thing to have.
As for "speed traps" in the popular sense. You'd have to have accident data to prove it one way or another. There's always the argument that just handing out tickets wherever you can get them deters speeding to some extent. This is almost certainly true, but it's still frustrating to see known danger zones, like highway/access road intersections, almost completely ignored by the cops in preference for the easy ticket places, like sudden speed limit changes. Personally, I would love to see a cop parked at each HPP highway access intersection during every rush hour. It might not be as glamorous as revving your Charger in pursuit of speeders, but it would be very welcome.