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Post by Big L on Feb 8, 2019 13:15:31 GMT -5
www.popularmechanics.com/technology/apps/a26235682/nypd-waze-dwi-traps/?source=nl&utm_source=nl_pop&utm_medium=email&date=110118NYPD Wants Waze to Stop Warning People About DWI Traps The police force wants the driving app to stop giving a heads-up. No change is likely. By David Grossman Feb 7, 2019 Miami Police Erect DUI Checkpoints During Holiday SeasonGETTY IMAGESJOE RAEDLE Waze, the popular hivemind traffic app, has a new enemy: the NYPD. Police are upset that the app is warning drivers about upcoming checkpoints where cops are checking for drunk drivers, and they're asking the Google-owned app to knock it off. CBS New York has obtained a letter from the NYPD to Waze's developer, Google, demanding that the app no longer identify DWI (driving while impaired) checkpoints. Ann Prunty, acting deputy commissioner for legal matters for the NYPD, said this: “This letter serves to put you on notice that the NYPD has become aware that the Waze Mobile application, a community-driven GPS navigation application owned by Google LLC, currently permits the public to report DWI checkpoints throughout New York City and map these locations on the application. Individuals who post the locations of DWI checkpoints may be engaging in criminal conduct since such actions could be intentional attempts to prevent and/or impair the administration of the DWI laws and other relevant criminal and traffic laws." The letter goes on to call Waze's ability to identify DWI checkpoints "irresponsible since it only serves to aid impaired and intoxicated drivers to evade checkpoints and encourage reckless driving. Revealing the location of checkpoints puts those drivers, their passengers, and the general public at risk.” Waze is built on a mountain of crowdsourced data. If its users report a slowdown, for example, the app might suggest to other users that they take an alternate route to circumvent the jam. Google has started incorporating elements of Waze into one of its signature apps, Google Maps. Most notably, earlier this year the company began adding speed trap alerts. It seems unlikely that a strongly worded letter will influence Google or its holding company, Alphabet. “Safety is a top priority when developing navigation features at Google. We believe that informing drivers about upcoming speed traps allows them to be more careful and make safer decisions when they’re on the road,” a Google spokesperson told CBS2 in a statement. The app's hivemind approach has received criticism before. Residents in Los Angeles have complained that Waze was redirecting traffic from the city's highways to residential areas en masse, sparking traffic pileups in neighborhoods. Residents there and across the country have taken measures to draw the app away from their neighborhoods, even entering fake information to throw Waze off their trail.
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Post by Hotman on Feb 8, 2019 14:10:07 GMT -5
Oh boofuckinhoo
Go Fuck yourself
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Post by 32Green on Feb 8, 2019 14:31:10 GMT -5
“Safety is a top priority when developing navigation features at Google. We believe that informing drivers about upcoming speed traps allows them to be more careful and make safer decisions when they’re on the road,” a Google spokesperson told CBS2 in a statement. Riiight. So someone will check waze on the way into a bar, see a DWI checkpoint then make the decision to not drink and drive...or will they simply still get loaded and use the app to evade the Checkpoint? Either way, I can see why the cawps would complain and I can see why Goggle would be within their rights to tell them to go fuck themselves. Btw, I have Google Maps app in my phone and every time I try to use it, it shows my location as a mile and a half away and never adjusts even when I start driving so they can suck my cocks. |
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Post by Big L on Feb 8, 2019 15:04:52 GMT -5
“Safety is a top priority when developing navigation features at Google. We believe that informing drivers about upcoming speed traps allows them to be more careful and make safer decisions when they’re on the road,” a Google spokesperson told CBS2 in a statement. Riiight. So someone will check waze on the way into a bar, see a DWI checkpoint then make the decision to not drink and drive...or will they simply still get loaded and use the app to evade the Checkpoint? Either way, I can see why the cawps would complain and I can see why Goggle would be within their rights to tell them to go fuck themselves. Btw, I have Google Maps app in my phone and every time I try to use it, it shows my location as a mile and a half away and never adjusts even when I start driving so they can suck my cocks. Informing users of upcoming speed traps certainly helps safety. You slow down, therefore being safer. Common. Those cocks can go suck a dick. The wife and I were going out to dinner once. Left in time to make our reservation. Along the way was a DWI checkpoint. Sat in the line for ten minutes to have a Cockp tell me to enjoy my dinner. Late for reservation. If I had known, I would have driven around. |
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Post by BEAC0NJET on Feb 8, 2019 15:09:37 GMT -5
Google has a point, when i see the cawp icon on Waze, i do slow down in that vicinity. IfI did drive while loaded, Id probably look for a detour, but when tying one on, I Uber these days. Too much at risk to drive drunk.
To be accurate, Im pretty sure Waze just lets you post where a cop is, visible or hiding. Not actually identify it as a DWI checkpoint. Splitting hairs, I know, but if you just see the icon, you dont know if its a speed trap, a pulled over motorist, or a DWI checkpoint.
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Post by BEAC0NJET on Feb 8, 2019 15:10:41 GMT -5
Riiight. So someone will check waze on the way into a bar, see a DWI checkpoint then make the decision to not drink and drive...or will they simply still get loaded and use the app to evade the Checkpoint? Either way, I can see why the cawps would complain and I can see why Goggle would be within their rights to tell them to go fuck themselves. Btw, I have Google Maps app in my phone and every time I try to use it, it shows my location as a mile and a half away and never adjusts even when I start driving so they can suck my cocks. Informing users of upcoming speed traps certainly helps safety. You slow down, therefore being safer. Common. Those cocks can go suck a dick. The wife and I were going out to dinner once. Left in time to make our reservation. Along the way was a DWI checkpoint. Sat in the line for ten minutes to have a Cockp tell me to enjoy my dinner. Late for reservation. If I had known, I would have driven around. They had a checkpoint set up during the early bird special hours? Who'da thought?  |
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Post by Ff2 on Feb 8, 2019 15:31:26 GMT -5
“Safety is a top priority when developing navigation features at Google. We believe that informing drivers about upcoming speed traps allows them to be more careful and make safer decisions when they’re on the road,” a Google spokesperson told CBS2 in a statement. Riiight. So someone will check waze on the way into a bar, see a DWI checkpoint then make the decision to not drink and drive...or will they simply still get loaded and use the app to evade the Checkpoint? Either way, I can see why the cawps would complain and I can see why Goggle would be within their rights to tell them to go fuck themselves. Btw, I have Google Maps app in my phone and every time I try to use it, it shows my location as a mile and a half away and never adjusts even when I start driving so they can suck my cocks. How come cawps dont sit 100 yards from bars and just pick people off one at a time. I always wondered. |
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Post by 32Green on Feb 8, 2019 15:49:44 GMT -5
Riiight. So someone will check waze on the way into a bar, see a DWI checkpoint then make the decision to not drink and drive...or will they simply still get loaded and use the app to evade the Checkpoint? Either way, I can see why the cawps would complain and I can see why Goggle would be within their rights to tell them to go fuck themselves. Btw, I have Google Maps app in my phone and every time I try to use it, it shows my location as a mile and a half away and never adjusts even when I start driving so they can suck my cocks. How come cawps dont sit 100 yards from bars and just pick people off one at a time. I always wondered. Because they like buybacks as much as the next guy? I'm thinkin the cawps (who are known to frequent a bar or two themselves) know how inherently hypocritical it would be. I think its part of that whole weird rationalization we have where getting high is illegal but getting whacked is not and the fine line between everybody party but dont get drunk thing. Aint saying its right, but your point is well taken. I have know instances, though, were specific problematic bars were targeted in such a way and eventually closed. |
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Post by 32Green on Feb 8, 2019 15:51:40 GMT -5
Riiight. So someone will check waze on the way into a bar, see a DWI checkpoint then make the decision to not drink and drive...or will they simply still get loaded and use the app to evade the Checkpoint? Either way, I can see why the cawps would complain and I can see why Goggle would be within their rights to tell them to go fuck themselves. Btw, I have Google Maps app in my phone and every time I try to use it, it shows my location as a mile and a half away and never adjusts even when I start driving so they can suck my cocks. Informing users of upcoming speed traps certainly helps safety. You slow down, therefore being safer. Common. Those cocks can go suck a dick. The wife and I were going out to dinner once. Left in time to make our reservation. Along the way was a DWI checkpoint. Sat in the line for ten minutes to have a Cockp tell me to enjoy my dinner. Late for reservation. If I had known, I would have driven around. I'm gonna tell them to set up the checkpoint after dinner next time. Then you'll really be fecked and have something to whine about common. |
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Post by 2milehighJet on Feb 8, 2019 16:58:18 GMT -5
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Post by Big L on Feb 8, 2019 19:46:47 GMT -5
Informing users of upcoming speed traps certainly helps safety. You slow down, therefore being safer. Common. Those cocks can go suck a dick. The wife and I were going out to dinner once. Left in time to make our reservation. Along the way was a DWI checkpoint. Sat in the line for ten minutes to have a Cockp tell me to enjoy my dinner. Late for reservation. If I had known, I would have driven around. I'm gonna tell them to set up the checkpoint after dinner next time. Then you'll really be fecked and have something to whine about common. With the app, I’d go around, dickhead. Duh. Common. |
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Post by tkasper01 on Feb 8, 2019 19:57:23 GMT -5
Riiight. So someone will check waze on the way into a bar, see a DWI checkpoint then make the decision to not drink and drive...or will they simply still get loaded and use the app to evade the Checkpoint? Either way, I can see why the cawps would complain and I can see why Goggle would be within their rights to tell them to go fuck themselves. Btw, I have Google Maps app in my phone and every time I try to use it, it shows my location as a mile and a half away and never adjusts even when I start driving so they can suck my cocks. Informing users of upcoming speed traps certainly helps safety. You slow down, therefore being safer. Common. Those cocks can go suck a dick. The wife and I were going out to dinner once. Left in time to make our reservation. Along the way was a DWI checkpoint. Sat in the line for ten minutes to have a Cockp tell me to enjoy my dinner. Late for reservation. If I had known, I would have driven around. I have never been stopped in a DWI checkpoint in NC. Must not be a Southern thing. |
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Post by Big L on Feb 8, 2019 20:13:44 GMT -5
Informing users of upcoming speed traps certainly helps safety. You slow down, therefore being safer. Common. Those cocks can go suck a dick. The wife and I were going out to dinner once. Left in time to make our reservation. Along the way was a DWI checkpoint. Sat in the line for ten minutes to have a Cockp tell me to enjoy my dinner. Late for reservation. If I had known, I would have driven around. I have never been stopped in a DWI checkpoint in NC. Must not be a Southern thing. They don’t have DUI checkpoints in NC? |
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Post by tkasper01 on Feb 8, 2019 20:24:34 GMT -5
I have never been stopped in a DWI checkpoint in NC. Must not be a Southern thing. They don’t have DUI checkpoints in NC? Not that I have seen in 22 years of living here. Best move I ever made. As I sip my conniption, Navy strength, gin and tonic 😁 |
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Post by 32Green on Feb 8, 2019 20:34:16 GMT -5
They don’t have DUI checkpoints in NC? Not that I have seen in 22 years of living here. Best move I ever made. As I sip my conniption, Navy strength, gin and tonic 😁 Just had two friends, no connection to eachother, retire and move to Waxhaw. Lovin life. I'm thinkin hard about NC and SC when I leave this shithole state. ( Sopne is graduating U South Carolina in may, probably staying down south) |
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