I hadn’t really paid much mind to the low-level buzz over the various apps that enable drivers to avoid speed traps and the like. I suppose I’m passively against them because, as a bike-rider, anything that might make you possible a less safe driver is bad for me. But not really against enough to say they should be banned. But turns out that one of the things that Fuzzalert advertises it can detect are DUI checkpoints.The problem is that if you’re in a position to need to avoid a DUI checkpoint, I really want you to go to jail. Because you’re an ass and, what’s more, a dangerous asshole. Will you be less of an ass when you get out of jail? Maybe not but, depending on what state you’re in, maybe you won’t have a driver’s license or maybe the whole thing will cost you enough to put you out of car payments. That’d be ideal.Is there an app to report asshole drivers? Like, not even the drunk ones. I’d like to be able to take a pic of a car and have that car’s information uploaded to some database for street justice purposes. That’d be swell for those times I can’t catch up to someone and lay a key into their door panel. Someone else could!Anyhow, I’m writing this at the moment because of a letter sent this week by a group of senators to Apple and Google, urging them both to kick the apps out of their respective stores. Why would Apple at least even approve an app advertising its DUI checkpoint functionality? I don’t know where this falls into the app store spectrum of shady crappy things, but here’s another vote against.Related:
Reach this writer at michaelb@motherboard.tv.
Advertisement
