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RIM Heeds Senators' Call to Drop DUI-Avoiding Apps

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Hmm?

mycool

Mar 23, 2011, 6:15 PM
While I'm not for people to drunk drive, it's a slippery slope to start removing apps because they could potentially cause issues.

What about Trapster? It's designed to alert people who enjoy speeding (which puts others in danger) avoid speed traps.
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D102982

Mar 23, 2011, 9:16 PM
Comparing speeding to drunk driving is apples to oranges. Drunk Driving kills thousands of people a year.

If someone is drunk driving and thinks the only punishment is getting arrested is missing the point. Your choice to save a little $ puts everyone at risk because of your selfishness.
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acdc1a

Mar 24, 2011, 8:28 AM
It's not apples and oranges. Excessive speed also kills thousands.

No one is saying people should speed or drink and drive, but let's talk about constitutionality of DUI checkpoints. Being on the road does not constitute probably cause or even reasonable suspicion. While some could argue that driving isn't a right, legally passing from point A to point B is.
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D102982

Mar 24, 2011, 7:10 PM
Legally speaking the Supreme Court has help that DUI checkpoints are legal. And yes driving is a right as is free travel.

However you just proved my point, travelling is a right, so if you dont like DUI checkpoints, you ca walk. No one will stop you from walking.
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Versed

Mar 24, 2011, 11:00 PM
While, I'm no way pro DD, I do think the government needs to clean their own house first. This goes for both Dems and Reps. I guess they also need to tell the newspapers not to publish articles on check points as well?
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Jayshmay

Mar 23, 2011, 10:55 PM
Well heck, you can buy radar detectors in stores, senators haven't prevented those from being on the market.
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maximiz3

Mar 24, 2011, 7:01 AM
I know DD are not a good thing but do you honestly think a DD is going to be able to figure out an App when they are drunk or no one has ever recieved a drunk text from someone. I am just saying....
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D102982

Mar 24, 2011, 7:12 PM
that's because radar detectors are scams, they don't work. By the time they "detect" the radar (most agency's use LIDAR anyway) your speed is already known. And even if you dont get "stopped" chances are by hearing your detector 'beep', you've slowed down anyway so problem solved.
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T Bone

Mar 24, 2011, 8:45 PM
Radar detectors encourage people to slow down, which increases safety.
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edzero

Mar 24, 2011, 9:39 AM
I dont think the app is even made for drunk drivers. I mean sure, theyre the ones who would really try to avoid checkpoints but can you really tell the phone companys to stop selling an app because if it falls in the wrong hands it can be a problem. Absolutely anything if given to the wrong person can be a problem.
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Troll-Bait

Mar 24, 2011, 3:24 PM
I really don't think these requests have anything to do with drunk driving, but are rather a cover for increased income through speeders.


Trapster IS one of the apps they are trying to get removed.
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D102982

Mar 24, 2011, 7:13 PM
damn those governments wanting money for paved roads, emergency services, water, parks/recreation, etc...
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Troll-Bait

Mar 24, 2011, 7:18 PM
Bull.

The government has plenty of money for road construction, emergency services and parks.

They get so much extra money, in fact, that they prefer to use the excess to wage war against random countries and discourage the average American from working by subsidizing laziness and irresponsibility.
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T Bone

Mar 24, 2011, 8:44 PM
So, a $14 trillion debt is 'having plenty of money'?
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Troll-Bait

Mar 24, 2011, 9:44 PM
How do you think we got into that kind of debt?

Not maintaining the roads, that's for sure. Have you seen those things?

The government, local, federal and state are a 100% evil scheme to make money, increase the power of this in in and vested in it and little else.

My personal belief is that the government exists soley to protect the liberty of it's people. Nothing. Else.

I understand and respect that you may not feel the same way, but I do enjoy sharing my opinion as a libertarian.
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Versed

Mar 24, 2011, 11:04 PM
For the most part the 14 trillion dollar debt was from bullcrap wars, and bailing out billionaires and corporations. Sure not all, but the majority.
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T Bone

Mar 25, 2011, 2:14 PM
No, you are quite wrong.

I know that people want to believe that the budget would be balanced if only we cut all the spending that they don't like, but it isn't true. The reason for the debt is entitlement spending, i.e. the spending that people like.
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Versed

Mar 25, 2011, 3:11 PM
T Bone said:
No, you are quite wrong.

I know that people want to believe that the budget would be balanced if only we cut all the spending that they don't like, but it isn't true. The reason for the debt is entitlement spending, i.e. the spending that people like.


And toss in military spending into that too.
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T Bone

Mar 24, 2011, 8:42 PM
Cops who run speed traps approve of the various tools people come up with to find speed traps, because when people know where the speed traps are, they drive more slowly and safely around the traps, which is the entire point of a speed trap.
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Troll-Bait

Mar 24, 2011, 9:54 PM
I doubt it.

We already have governors in our vehicles, why not regulate the speed to the highest allowed by law, rather than 120mph in most vehicles.

Why have minimum citation requirements among officers?

If speeding tickets were truly about public safety, why would the revenue from them be considered as part of the budget allotted for police departments? they should be rather an unfortunate side-effect of driving un-safely.

Headlight out? If it's really a safety issue (and it is!!!) focus on getting it fixed rather than charging for the, more often than not, unintentional mistake. Help them find the nearest auto-zone and get it fixed.

A person not wearing a seatbelt gets into a crash and hurts himself and how many others...
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T Bone

Mar 25, 2011, 2:12 PM
"Why have minimum citation requirements among officers?"

So called 'ticket quotas' do not exist. There is not a single community in the United States where officers have a quota on the amount of tickets they are supposed to write.
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