Now comes www.trapster.com. A smartphone app to report and discover police traffic check points.

They appear to have most smart phones covered: iPhone, Windows Mobile, Android, and Blackberry. They can even download information to most GPS systems.

I was wonering how the police would react to such a service. One quote on the trapster site addresses this:

"If someone slows down because of it, it's accomplishing the same goal of trying to get people to obey the speed limit"
Bill Johnson - Executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations

But, of course, the danger is people not slowing down when they don't see a trap marked. The police could flood this system with false information. Thereby negating the ability to rely on the information presented by this service. In any case, when driving, I revert to these four words of wisdom for safe travelling:

 "Honk less, Yield More!"

(Thanks to Blue Ridge Wireless for bringing this to my attention!)