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Speeding Tickets, a thing of the Past

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4 Apr

Tired of wasting all your hard earned dough on pesky speeding tickets? Well now you can give the fuzz the finger with a new mobile phone app. called Trapster. Utilizing GPS technology and real-time data distribution users can receive mobile alerts on their cell phone/PDA when approaching speed traps or red-light cameras. For example, if you’re driving along and you’re about to approach a speed trap (and you’ve got Trapster running), your phone will automatically sound an alert saying “live police” giving you time to slow down and avoid that 5-0 shakedown.

All of the information in the Trapster database is user generated. When users come across speed traps and red-light cameras they can submit those locations to the Trapster database and then other users will be warned as they approach them. To discourage flooding of the database with false information users can also rate each other’s locations. Check out the demo video below to get a better idea of how the system works.