Posted on 02/07/2019 6:36:37 AM PST by fremont_steve
The NYPD is demanding Google yank a feature from its Waze traffic app that tips off drivers to police checkpoints — claiming such warnings could be considered “criminal conduct.”
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I believe the courts have ruled that even “flashing headlights” to vehicles coming the opposite direction, notifying of police presence coming up, was considered free speech.
This came up as the police tried to punish people flashing their lights.
Funny you should mention that. I got rid of Waze years ago when they wanted access to my contact list. Does anyone know if Waze still wants access to your contacts?
Don’t drive in the Dallas area. If you leave a safe distance, someone WILL cut into the gap. The only way to maintain a safe distance in front is to drive in reverse.
It still asks, but you can tell it ‘no’.
Any attempt to criminalize this would be a clear violation of the 1st Amendment right to free speech. I don’t remember the name of the case, but approximately 15-20 years ago some PD arrested a guy for flashing his lights to motorists going the other way, warning them of a speed trap or something similar. The USSC ruled that the arrest violated the 1st Amendment, that flashing one’s lights was “speech” of a sort.
NYC can go piss up a rope. BTW, I was in NYFC last summer, and Waze happened to save me from at least 3 tickets during that week. Thank God that I’m back in Texas, where you can be on the 80 MPH interstate, and go 95 passing the cop going 90 and no one gives a rat’s ass so long as you’re not being dangerous. Oh, and you can have 10 guns in the car with you at the time of getting pulled over (IF you get pulled over), and they also don’t care (and may ask to go shooting with you).
In the past, police would have said thanks as these warnings help people slow down and drive correctly.
Thanks. Waze has been bought out by Google and Google maps is now rolling out the technology, like Waze, to alert drivers about cops and speed traps. I’ll continue to use Google Maps.
Trickle down:
Citizenry calls/texts intercepted —> no punishment
Elected Prez spied on, thwarted —> no punishment
Top Spy guys lie to Congress —> no punishment
WHY SHOULDN’T the cops start trying to push Google around..?
The past 10+ years have provided a How To for establishing a US dictatorship ruled by a permanent unelected bureaucracy.
If you show unelected people often enough that They Are In Charge, don’t be surprised when they start ACTING LIKE IT.
While traveling in western Canada I was surprised at something I figured would have been illegal in a place that has no respect for many personal freedoms we take for granted. The traffic reports on the radio would regularly include warnings to motorists about the exact locations of police speed traps and their portable speed camera locations on any given day.
Waze is only as good as the “Wazer’s” reporting ahead of you.
Drive across OH on State Rte 35 from WV. No traffic, and the State Cop that always sits in the median between Southside and Henderson will surely getcha if your +70.
How can listing the location of every Dunkin Donuts shop in the five boroughs be considered “criminal conduct”?
I think it was AAA who came out and said that going at 60 MPH, you need to leave a gap of six car lengths behind the car ahead for safety.
Someone wrote in and said when he did that, six cars pulled in front of him.
It happens where I live too.
It happens out in vegas, happens in moline.
I’m happy to cede all collisions to other people.
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