The other day I drove down to Lexington, Kentucky to go see the University of Kentucky Wildcats play the Ole Miss Rebels. On the way over I picked up my friend Ryan in Cincinnati and we headed down to Kentucky.
My friend has an app for his iPhone (it’s also available for other phones) called Trapster which alerts you to police officers on the road you’re travelling before you get to them. To some degree, it works like a radar detector, but instead it relies on a network of other iPhone users that have the Trapster app (almost 4 million to date) to “tag” or mark police officers, speed traps and now even accidents, when they seem them.
As cool as all the features and the functionality is, I got to wondering today if the spread of this app and others that are perhaps similar has put any kind of significant dent in the revenues generated by speeding tickets because people are avoiding them using the app.
Part of me thinks that it’s had to have some kind of noticeable impact, but maybe it really hasn’t been that much more than when radar detectors first came out. Do you think there’s any chance of this kind of an app being outlawed?