The free version requires watching ads periodically to update when cameras are moved
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Wow, who whould’ve thunk it! I’m too old and settled-down for that life now, so I guess I’ll never know, unless I get invited to DJ someplace for old time’s sake.
Actually I surreptitiously took a photo of the signs, and the translate app mentioned drinking or similar. Also one cop would asking others to breathe into a stick.
But maybe not every time. Everybody’s speeding on that stretch of road though, and I didn’t see anyone pulled over for that.
Key word. Are you around a college campus?
Most students play computer games until 3am, then go out drinking until 7am, then ride their scooters home just in time for a nap until their first class at 2pm.
It’s never been legal, and i believe they had a big crackdown on it, (at least in Taipei), a couple years ago.
Bingo! Though the checks are about 2-3 miles from campus.
They’re a legal requirement, any speed check must be within a defined distance of the sign in order to be valid. Pretty common in many countries, the purpose of the fines is supposed to be to deter speeding not a revenue collection method, the signs and apps serve the same deterence function without having to have someone on the ground.
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And yet it (literally warning you that you will get fined within this km or 2) doesn’t work, and many people end up maimed or dead. Hurrah!
Shocker!
Our future doctors and teachers. Explains a lot.
No we know that. For years and years towards the end of the month the cops would set up in a hundred different spots to hand out tickets to scooters executing what in any normal country would be a free turn.
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A lot of the signs are decorative. Cheaper than speed cameras and generally they apparently have some positive impact (except when people get an app which helps them ignore the signs, those buggers)
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A lot of cameras also have other cameras watching said cameras to catch the folks vandalizing said cameras (ie. Painted, bent, s ashed etc). It already has gotten a lot better, but still a farce to be sure.
Eventually, hopefully, there will come a time when people realize it is easier just driving properly, rather than this shit show we witness 24/7 nationwide. without fail.
Do u know where the paid version is because after all those tickets I’m rather tempted not to have to have this issue again…
I just assume somewhere in the app there’s an option to give them money, but I can’t read it
I quite often see people drinking at 9am at our local PX when I pop in there to pick things up. They usually look like they worked a night shift and were having a drink before going to bed.
Is Waze a thing in Taiwan? 
Waze works in Taiwan but no one uses it. I’ve been checking for years.
I rely on Google Maps but also sometimes just turn Waze but no one is on there.
I add comments or whatever sometimes like there’s traffic here or a cop there or an accident here or fire over there but no one else is there reading it or making comments.
Would like to know if someone else is having a different experience.
Side note: Manila, Waze works surprisingly well even in the way deep small no man’s land nether regions where few dare to tread with a vehicle. But wrong turns happen if you’re not paying attention.
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You can do the same thing in Google Maps. Why use Waze?
I’m kind of a recluse, and I’m not very observant. But I’ve seen guys working on the streets late at night (street repair?–sewer repair?–replacing electrical cable?–not always sure).
On a small number of occasions, while on my way very late or very early to or from a convenience store, or on my way home from an Internet cafe back when I didn’t have Internet at home, I’d see those kinds of workers sitting or squatting in doorways, drinking beer and quietly shooting the breeze. And this would be, like, 4 AM, or thereabouts. So I guessed that their knock-off time occurred in the wee hours of the morning.
That’s just one vague example, and it may not be representative, but over the years I’ve gotten the general impression that Taiwan is a 24-7 sort of place.
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