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PacketSniffer · 04-09-2008, 07:16 PM

Damnit! I'm a day late AGAIN! lol I was thinking of the same exact thing as this developer has.

Everyone working together to keep a live database is probably the best way of, uuhhhhmmm, avoiding speeding tickets if you have a heavy foot. Let's not kids ourselves folks, speeding tickets are primarily used as revenue generators. Whether you were 10 over (big whoop) or 20 over while in the highway, it brings in big bucks. We are preyed upon for this revenue.

For some time (well, since my last speeding ticket..lol), I was thinking of how the radar trap could be beat once and for all. Monitoring police radio traffic is now not an option with the new encrypted digital systems. There's nothing in a patrol car that could be used to locate it except for the radio and you can't tap into the radio network. Sooooo, if we apply technology with the eyeballs on the street and get them collaborating together, we'll have a chance; err, maybe an edge.

For CarPCs, I was thinking of a skin that would have a "Hot Button" that you would hit when you see a patrol car using radar. That info (GPS location, time, date) would go to a Internet database. Ultimately, we would want the CarPC to proactively inform us when we are closing in (user configurable distance) on a radar gun. It could give us a rank of how many others (validity) were exposed to this radar gun. It could show us the radar sites on our mapping software. This system would be better than any radar detector ever could be because it could warn us well before we ever entered the hot zone. As we all know, InstantOn Radar is a ***** to beat. However, this system would be the ultimate and turn the tides in our favor. It's the 21st century CB Radio on steriods.

I can see the day when this would be extended to radar detectors that could be enabled with Internet access (cellular PrePay or RJ-45 equipped for your own Net). Push a button on the detector to confirm a police car emmiting radar and the info is sent to a central database with all of the necessary vitals. Hundreds if not thousands of people collaborating together. Carnivore, eat your heart out. lol

Sprint Broadband equipped CarPC.

04-09-2008, 07:16 PM	#3
PacketSniffer Newbie Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Houston Posts: 54	Damnit! I'm a day late AGAIN! lol I was thinking of the same exact thing as this developer has. Everyone working together to keep a live database is probably the best way of, uuhhhhmmm, avoiding speeding tickets if you have a heavy foot. Let's not kids ourselves folks, speeding tickets are primarily used as revenue generators. Whether you were 10 over (big whoop) or 20 over while in the highway, it brings in big bucks. We are preyed upon for this revenue. For some time (well, since my last speeding ticket..lol), I was thinking of how the radar trap could be beat once and for all. Monitoring police radio traffic is now not an option with the new encrypted digital systems. There's nothing in a patrol car that could be used to locate it except for the radio and you can't tap into the radio network. Sooooo, if we apply technology with the eyeballs on the street and get them collaborating together, we'll have a chance; err, maybe an edge. For CarPCs, I was thinking of a skin that would have a "Hot Button" that you would hit when you see a patrol car using radar. That info (GPS location, time, date) would go to a Internet database. Ultimately, we would want the CarPC to proactively inform us when we are closing in (user configurable distance) on a radar gun. It could give us a rank of how many others (validity) were exposed to this radar gun. It could show us the radar sites on our mapping software. This system would be better than any radar detector ever could be because it could warn us well before we ever entered the hot zone. As we all know, InstantOn Radar is a *** to beat. However, this system would be the ultimate and turn the tides in our favor. It's the 21st century CB Radio on steriods. I can see the day when this would be extended to radar detectors that could be enabled with Internet access (cellular PrePay or RJ-45 equipped for your own Net). Push a button on the detector to confirm a police car emmiting radar and the info is sent to a central database with all of the necessary vitals. Hundreds if not thousands of people collaborating together. Carnivore**, eat your heart out. lol Sprint Broadband equipped CarPC.