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Cool app.. but why subscription? this should be a one time payment.
the biggest cost for me is the navigation, mapbox charges quite a lot...on a per trip basis, but you guys can use the promo code HACKERNEWS for 1 month free trial
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Oh, yikes, fixed-blades and things as long as shortish machetes? OK, yeah, people don't usually carry those here. Folding pocket knives in the 3"-6" range are common, but not fixed or very-long blades.
Yeah, anything larger than a pocketknife is explicitly illegal to carry in the UK, plus a whole bunch of random moral panic stuff like nunchucks. What the verse means is people carrying knives with intent; that you're entering a subculture where people might stab you in a drunken argument that turns into a fight. (Used to be Glasgow, these days it's London, always young men in "gang" contexts) This means the original…
Right, yeah, I got the intent, it just comes off real goofy in a place where sometimes you see people open-carrying guns, and a hell of a lot more are concealed-carrying, and I was certainly imagining long-side-of-normal folding pocket knives, not something closer to combat knives.
Thanks for explaining, the context does help.
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So what are you implying here with the quotes on "speed traps"? There are very real speed traps on roads, and they endanger drivers in exchange for generating ticket revenue.
One, it's insane to ask drivers to input data while driving. Two, these are not "speed traps", they are simply officers on the side of the road. These officers are doing a public service looking for cell phone users, and for aggressive speeders.
But Google maps uses the euphemism speed trap so it doesn't look like just tracking cops.
The concept separation of concerns I apply every where, and I like my dashcam not connected to any cloud, if I ever needed a footage, I’ll just take it from the sdcard.
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I read that you get a nontrivial discount on your car insurance in Russia if you have a dashcam. So basically everyone there has one, which is why it seems like all the dashcam videos on the internet take place in Russia. I think that sort of system makes sense. We shouldn't require dashcam, but any policy which reduces expensive he-said-she-said litigation in our society should be encouraged. I suspect we'd find a p…
Insurance companies already offer you “discounts” (or pretend to) if you install their pervasive tracking dongle. How they use that data is NOT to the consumers benefit. When I was in school, an insurance company (idk which one but it’s in Cleveland area) pitched us to work for them on this system. They laughed to us about all the fools who give them data. They bill you more if you travel through intersections with l…
This sounds like a wonderfully non-controversial idea that could save many lives. I'd absolutely use this feature.
I know there are many people that work for Apple & Google on this site - if you needed a nudge, this is it.
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> this might be a camera recording the driver-distraction I'm not sure why you would want to use your phone to record yourself while driving to see if you're distracted.
To use AI to alert you to when you're not paying attention.