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Status_Silver_5114 t1_iynj1a1 wrote

Reply to comment by jt_tesla in Check your headlights! by lugo2

Also I think the lights flashing for cops is a rapidly dying habit/generational thing. I flash more for lights being off or it’s ok to turn.

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KennyWuKanYuen t1_iyny3gc wrote

That’s honestly pretty sad. And you’d think with being in a tech age, we’d have something by to signal to us that a cop is ahead.

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FourAM t1_iyptfed wrote

Waze

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KennyWuKanYuen t1_iyq0kd9 wrote

I have Waze but it’s not my primary navigation app. It’s good but I wish it was more native to cars and don’t rely on users reporting.

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degggendorf t1_iyqss5f wrote

>and don’t rely on users reporting.

What would you want, Waze (Google) employees monitoring every mile of every road to know when there's a cop taking radar to put it on the map?

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KennyWuKanYuen t1_iyr9r9r wrote

Probably hinting at something similar to lane-keep assist or lane-change assist, where it’s a sensor. Or crash detection. In this case, it’d be a built-in sensor that either scans for police radio with a nearby radius or scans for signals that only radiate off police cruisers and then have a light go off on the dash to indicate that there’s a cop nearby.

Something to that’s not removable.

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degggendorf t1_iyrcjv4 wrote

Never going to happen.

The police radio detector would always be receiving signal, so then you'd have to have some kind of speech recognition AI or something to figure out if there's one checking speed.

Then if there were a built-in radar detector, it would be illegal to sell in many states.

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SoftwareDev401 t1_iynydc4 wrote

Yes. This is definitely a thing my grandmother did years ago when she was teaching me how to drive, and I still do.

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SoftwareDev401 t1_iynyqh7 wrote

Except, I don't warn others about cops on my own street.

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Status_Silver_5114 t1_iyo4e5z wrote

I don't buy into the warning about cops since people have become such aggressive drivers over the years. F*ck that - drive like a jerk I hope you get caught and no I'm not going to warn you anymore. But yes i was taught that too.

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