Njection wants to free you from the tyranny of law. The company maintains a website where users can upload the skinny on red light cameras and speed traps, wiki-style, thus enabling drivers to avoid them, or at least slow down when they are in the vicinity. It reminds me of the scene from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, when principal Ed Rooney is sprinting along the school corridor, as fast as his hate-filled legs will carry him, and he slows up as he passes each classroom window.
But web, schmeb. Who cares about speed traps when you are at home? You need that kind of info when you are on the road, and Njection will let you do just that. For $40 per year, you get a subscription to constantly updated files for your in car GPS device, delivered in CSV or OV2 formats (supported by most satnav units, including those from Garmin and TomTom).
The user added data isn't limited to just the locations of these legal hotspots. Once logged in, you can add "Heat Map" information, which is a table listing the times when a particular camera is being monitored, and you can rate the traps in a hilariously Web 2.0 fashion:
Sounds just like Digg. You can even pick and choose just what you want to avoid. $35 per year will buy you the locations of just the red light cameras, and $25 provides the whereabouts of speed traps. Curiously, the cops actually like it. Speaking to Reuters, Njection founder Shannon Atkinson said "I've gotten lots of positive feed back from police officers. It's the idea of getting people to slow down in those areas and if this helps, they're happy."
Right now the service officially covers the US and some of the UK, but when I visited the site, it appears that there is a lot of information already posted on Barcelona, so you, too, might have coverage.
Product page [Njection via Reuters]
