Trapster: A New Way To Calm Traffic On Your Street

On the radio today, we heard a report on a relatively new website called trapster.com, which pinpoints police speed traps, speed cameras and red light cameras on a map. If you have a GPS-enabled phone, you can also sign up for a service that will alert you when you are approaching a known speed trap in your car (and some GPS navigation devices evidently also can utilize the service).

That got us thinking. We don't like folks speeding down our little street. So why not notify trapster that our street is a notorious speed trap? Now maybe just one notice won't be enough, so we'd want to enlist our neighbors, and maybe combine our notice with some legitimate ones in Arlington of which we are aware.

That way, those speed devils who think they're so smart by using trapster will get an alert as they head down our street, and will slow down. We'll see how it works.

Of course, if everyone does this, it will defeat the purpose of trapster--you won't know where the real speed traps are because there are so many fake ones from people just wanting you to slow down. So what? It just means some entrepeneur hoping to get rich quick won't be able to, and that your local speed demons will have a higher risk of getting caught.