Apple Maps vs. Google Maps vs. Waze

Re:Apple Maps vs. Google Maps vs. Waze by CamperBob2 on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @01:27AM (#16427323)

This sounds like an excellent place for a [Citation Needed] tag, no pun intended.

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Re:Apple Maps vs. Google Maps vs. Waze by kimdcmason on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @12:51PM (#16431363)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0012902/

tldr; speed traps save lives and reduce injury.

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Re:Apple Maps vs. Google Maps vs. Waze by CamperBob2 on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @04:37PM (#16433199)

That's a meta-analysis that doesn't focus on police activities, but rather unattended camera installations. Results of such studies have hardly been unequivocal, unlike the financial benefits to the camera operators.

Setting aside the fact that you can find a pubmed link to "prove" the efficacy of almost any intervention, the original assertion -- that the roads are more dangerous when drivers are informed of the presence of cameras, police, or both -- is not addressed by this survey.

As speeds have gone up, the death rate has gone down more or less steadily, at least until the last couple of years when drivers collectively decided that their cellphones are more interesting than their driving. A study that purports to exonerate speed traps must first address this rather inconvenient truth.

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