Sahas Kata had a minor run in with the law, an officer claimed he was speeding, 40 in a 25. fortunately he was running tracking software on his new droid phone. once in court he asked the officer when he was last trained on use of the radar gun, when it was last calibrated, etc. he was found not guilty, basically because the officer was unprepared.
The judge took a moment and declared that I was not guilty, but he had an unusual statement that followed. To avoid any misinterpretations about his ruling, he chose to clarify his decision by citing the lack of evidence on the officer’s part. He mentioned that he was not familiar enough with GPS technology to make a decision based on my evidence, but I can’t help but imagine that it was an important factor.
Blind reliance on technology can lead to injustice, and in other cases may have serious consequences.
Via Slashdot
I can see this becoming more and more common, I recall a similar case involving a person (I think a teacher) that was running AutoRoute and GPS and was able to disprove the case, that was some time ago.
Thing is how bad is the delay between the reading and the real speed, could be a mine field that one lol :)