Stefan Mileschin

Poor driving recorded

A team of AI scientists with backgrounds in Silicon Valley companies and top UK universities have developed an app which will allow people to “document traffic crimes in their area.”

The Guardian said that the app’s creators hope is it will encourage police to take speeding more seriously while enabling residents, pedestrians and cyclists to document traffic crimes in their area.

However, the app, which basically allows users to grass speeding drivers to the law, has received a bad press and its inventors are apparently on the lamb.

"We're getting quite abusive emails," Sam, the app's founder, told the Guardian on condition of anonymity. "It's a Marmite product -- some people think it's a good idea, some people think that it turns us into a surveillance state. "I can see both sides of that, but I think that if you're going to have speed limits, then it's the law that you obey them, and you should enforce the law. It's not a personal vendetta against anyone, it's just -- how do we make our roads safe? "There are 20,000 serious injuries on the roads every year -- how can we reduce them? And the way we reduce them is we make a deterrent to speeding."

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