Recently I saw a news article about the app that I have been using for about 5 years called WAZE. Available at the app store and google plat for free. Apart from being a reliable GPS guiding system that tells you how fast you are ACTUALLY going. It also alerts you of traffic jams, constructions, breakdowns, crashes, objects on the road, and even roadkills. Most important of all it tell you where cops and speed cameras are.
How does it do that?
It is a community based app and drivers report these things when they see them with the touch of a button.
Cops obviously hate this as it dramatically reduces their revenue raising. The loophole they use to discourage people from using this app is that drivers cannot touch their phones while driving so they can't report things.
But here is a loophole for drivers... If you have Apple Car Play or Android Auto then it is not illegal to use this app while driving.
Over 5 years this has got better and better. Because more and more people are using it. Millions use this now and it saves me 99 out of 100 times. And with the article below from the police commissioner bringing even more attention to it, it has just got more powerful again.
Download it and try it out. You won't go back
Happy motoring...
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