iPhone and speed traps
The iPhone replaces yet another device.
In addition to serving as map, compass, camera, and dictation device, iPhone is now also being used to report police speed traps and traffic cameras. Trapster, available for iPhone in addition to other popular mobile platforms, uses your geolocation to monitor whether you’re approaching a speed trap and alerts you with iPhone 3.0′s new notifications.
You can report your own points, too:
Trapster is a clever reconceptualization of speed trap detection that lets drivers pool knowledge. It’s interesting to see another dedicated hardware device, the traditional and often illegal radar detector, replaced by the combination of networked software and GPS.
Interesting too that, though it has limitations when compared to the radar detector, the app offers compelling features that the radar detector cannot. And unlike the radar detector, the app can be trivially updated with additional features.