iPhone App Castrates Speed Traps
Will wonders never cease? The latest driver's app to come out for the iPhone is the EyeKiwi - a dynamic database of traffic cameras that uses your iPhone's built-in GPS to alert you when you're approaching a known speed trap.
What happens is that the app monitors your iPhone's internal GPS to locate you. Then the app plays an alert sound to let you know you're approaching a known speed trap. The EyeKiwi app connects with FoxyTag, the world largest speed camera database. FoxyTag is collaborative, and the EyeKiwi app allows you to log any new or mobile speed trap locations and feed that information back into the database. That way, all EyeKiwi users get continuously updated speed trap locations.
Unfortunately, the system works only in Europe for the moment, but there's little doubt that the American market will demand the same service in short order. At the moment, we in the States have access to sites like www.speedtrapped.com, but a notification in your car? That's a prophylactic we can all use.
You can find out more about the EyeKiwi app from their site www.eyekiwi.com, or look it up on iTunes.
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FoxyTag works worldwide, so EyeKiwi too. Currently we do not have reported cameras in the US and Canada, but some benevolent people are doing it (as well as for Australia). As soon as we have enough we put them in the system and then the users will be responsible to report the missing ones...
For Autralia we expect to do it in about 5 days. For US and Canada it schould be done in about 10-30 days. And for Russia we are still looking for volunteers.
Once the US is added, I think we can count on this one being a "must have" drivers' app. :)