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REPORT: D.C. police chief says drivers who use iPhone to find speed traps are "cowardly"

D.C. police chief Cathy Lanier, frustrated that iPhone technology is one step ahead of the red-light and speed cameras in her jurisdiction, has announced that those who use their hand-held electronic devices are "cowardly" and "...are going to get caught" in one way or another. The subscription-based software that has Lanier shaking her fists and blurting out names is called PhantomAlert. In a nutshell, its GPS-enhanced database of law enforcement "points of interest" mimics alarms similar to those common to radar detectors (remember, radar ... Read more →

Feed For Speed: Restaurant issues free pizza for speeding tickets near Ferrari HQ? Chris Shunk

Officials in Maranello, Italy are cracking down on speeders outside the famous Ferrari factory, as bi-directional radar cameras have been placed on Via Giardini leading to and from the factory. ...

Teens copying enemies' license plates to get revenge via speed cameras Jonathon Ramsey

Teens are known for having a lot of time, some seriously outrageous ideas for filling that time, and a slightly obsessive need for revenge. Add a few residential speed cameras into that mix, and what ...

Man moons speed camera, fine won't be so funny Chris Shunk

There are times in everyone's life when you have an idea that sounds brilliant when explained in the audience of friends, but in practice is "exposed" as pure idiocy. The passenger of a BMW X5 gave a ...

Pittsburgh police refunding speeding fines given by mistake Dan Roth

A pair of Pittsburgh Revenue Officers misunderstood the rules surrounding the use of some LIDAR gear loaned to the department for testing and issued a raft of tickets that the Pittsburgh Bureau of ...

Big refund for Brits: Busiest speed camera deemed unlawful 1 year ago on Autoblog

Photo: Nicholas Bowman Most people have pretty weak arguments for speeding. Everything from having a broken speedometer, going with the flow of traffic, or desperately needing to find a bathroom are usually feeble excuses that generally don't hold up. Simon Grills's case is unique. Despite being ...

Njection and Garmin partner to identify speed traps 1 year ago on Autoblog

Njection is a website for guys like us. In addition to their forums and picture resources, they have compiled a database of more than 50,000 speed traps worldwide -- areas with high radar use and speed cameras -- that works with Microsoft Live Maps. Njection is now offering owners of Garmin GPS ...

Mythbusters fail to foil the speed camera 2 years ago on Autoblog

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/television/Mythbusters_fail_to_foil_the_speed_camera#c5610681'; Last night's episode of Mythbusters was wonderfully auto related. The show's hosts, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, take on the myth that a speed camera can be foiled. They attack the myth from various ...

Not again: Blind man caught going 100 mph in Barcelona 2 years ago on Autoblog

A blind man was recently caught by a speed camera doing 98 mph on public roads in Spain. The man had lost his sight in a car accident in 1996, and, as he explained to the court, wanted to drive just one more time. So, just like the last time we heard about a sightless driver, the man had his wife ...

New navi in UK guarantees no speeding tickets 2 years ago on Autoblog

Though the isle of Britain isn't that large in terms of square miles, it still contains 24,000 potential speed traps (about the same number in Ohio, we think). The Rossini Navigator and Camera Spotter is a satellite navigation unit that has each one of those traps plotted on its digital topography ...

British man Ka-Blew it trying to blow up speed camera 3 years ago on Autoblog

Nobody likes a tattletale, but is that any reason to blow up a speed camera that just caught you breakin' the law? A 28-year-old British man who had just gotten snapped by a speed camera thought so, and believed he could beat his ticket by blowing up the witness to his crime. Wrong. The hard drive ...

Audi has fun at speed camera's expense 3 years ago on Autoblog

Audi's advertising agency, Ogilvy, decided to have a little fun with a speed camera in South Africa by placing in front of it an ad for the Audi RS6 with the line, "say cheese!" One might find need for such a warning/laugh in an RS6, which at the time of this pic boasted 450 hp from a twin-turbo ...

Speed camera catches Hyundai doing the impossible 3 years ago on Autoblog

A man accused of driving at speeds up to 147 mph is about to get his day in court -- and many are looking at the case to challenge the freeway photo enforcement program in Scottsdale, Ariz. Lawrence Pargo of Goodyear was supposedly running late for work and was caught by speeding cameras on Loop ...

Europeans can avoid speed cameras with Inforad 3 years ago on Autoblog

Speed cameras in Europe are fast becoming a royal pain in the ass, which makes a device like Inforad a stroke of genius. It's a little black box that sits on your dash and plugs into your cigarette lighter like a radar detector, but instead of detecting cops with quotas to meet, it uses GPS ...

UK insurer offering policy geared toward speed camera reality 3 years ago on Autoblog

UK car enthusiasts' struggle with the kudzu-like spread of speed cameras has been well documented, but to those outside of England, the scale and scope of the issue is hard to get one's head around without experiencing it firsthand. That said, perhaps news that an auto insurer has just authored a ...

Scotland puts speed camera movement on two wheels 3 years ago on Autoblog

Scotland's motorists had better keep their eyes peeled for a certain 'brightly marked' Honda 650 Deauville motorcycle. Those passing through Edinburgh at extralegal speeds had better beware, because local authorities have just outfitted a speed camera to the aforementioned motorbike, and it works in ...

Charlotte NC speed cameras could unwittingly cost city $4.6 million 3 years ago on Autoblog

Authorities in Charlotte, North Carolina have switched off their red light and speed camera units. The move stems from a May 16 decision by the NC state appeals court directing some 90 percent of proceeds to state schools, not to the city or the company that operates the cameras. Peek Traffic Inc., ...

UK policeman doing 91 mph in a 30 mph zone, crashes upon seeing speed camera 3 years ago on Autoblog

A British police officer is licking his wounds after balling up his Ford Galaxy patrol car. That fact alone wouldn't be terribly noteworthy, except for the spectacular manner in which he crashed. As the story goes, PC Scott Warburton was doing 91 mph in a 30 mph zone in Lancaster when he ...

Minneapolis judge orders 'lights out' for traffic signal cameras 3 years ago on Autoblog

A Minneapolis, Minnesota area judge has given red-light cameras a taste of their own medicine. Hennepin County District Judge Mark Wernick has put the red light on the county's automated traffic signal cameras installed this past July. The judge found legal fault with the county’s ...






Autoblog Podcast #153: With Phil Berg

Phil Berg puts his reputation on the line and hangs with the podcast crew.

 
 

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