{"id":6772,"date":"2010-12-07T07:24:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T11:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6772"},"modified":"2010-12-07T08:29:08","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T12:29:08","slug":"cool-idea-dont-expect-it-to-be-allowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/12\/07\/cool-idea-dont-expect-it-to-be-allowed\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool idea . . . don&#8217;t expect it to be allowed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/ari-krupnik\/hazmap-open-everything-radar-detector\" target=\"_blank\">This is a cool idea<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I am building a radar detector that plugs into your iPhone. When RadarLoc detects radar, it notifies other drivers in the area, making radar effectively visible for miles. I think of it as transparency in government. To the extent that visible traffic enforcement slows traffic, RadarLoc encourages law-abiding behavior.<\/p>\n<p>RadarLoc is open source, open hardware and open data. My plan is to make the radar data available on RadarLoc.org, so anyone can build on it. If you don&#8217;t like my app, you can build your own&#8211;I tell you how to talk to the hardware and how to use the data service. Information wants to be free.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, radar traps are not actually there to encourage safer driving: they&#8217;re there as revenue sources. This is why (at least in some jurisdictions) you&#8217;re not supposed to warn other drivers of radar traps, even though by doing so you&#8217;re encouraging other drivers to drive more slowly (therefore making the road safer). Radar detectors of any kind are illegal in Ontario, for example.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chr1sa\/statuses\/12034906460790784\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Anderson<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a cool idea: I am building a radar detector that plugs into your iPhone. When RadarLoc detects radar, it notifies other drivers in the area, making radar effectively visible for miles. I think of it as transparency in government. To the extent that visible traffic enforcement slows traffic, RadarLoc encourages law-abiding behavior. RadarLoc [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,10,15],"tags":[111,27,98],"class_list":["post-6772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-law","category-liberty","category-technology","tag-cars","tag-iphone","tag-police"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1Le","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6773,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6772\/revisions\/6773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}