spwilcen
“Uh-oh.”
“What?”
“There’s a cop behind you.”
“Okay, I’ll slow down.”
…
“Big uh-oh.”
“What?”
“He just flipped his lights on. You’re busted.”
—
“Good morning, Officer.”
“Good morning, ma’am. I’d like to see your license and registration, please.”
“Certainly. Is there a problem?”
“You know how fast you were going?”
“Not sure, but I can find out.”
“Posted limit here is forty… What do you mean ‘find out?’”
“I have the new ‘DriveSmart’ application on my phone. Tracks my speed at all times.”
“Unh. Never heard of it.”
“Technology, officer. Insurance companies are demanding it. Reduced rates. Safe driver. All that.”
“Can you show me?”
“Sure. Here. Look. I’ll call up the app. Flip left to history. Ten second intervals. It’s 10:02 now. There’s my speed, calculated by geolocation from 9:50 to 10:02, oops, 10:03 now. Still zero since you pulled me over, sir. But highest recently, looking back, forty-one miles per. Wanna go back further?”
“Never seen such a thing. This been to court?”
“I dunno. Not me. Not yet. You gonna write a ticket?”
“Well, unh, I mean my radar says…”
“Your device against mine, officer.”
“Listen. I’ll have to check this out. Meanwhile, you be sure to watch your speed.”
“Yes’m.”
“Have a nice day. Stay safe.”
“You too, Officer.”
—
“That for real?”
“Yup.”
“But it’s broke.”
“Nope.”
“You were doing fifty.”
“Little over, actually.”
“Well anyway, it was slick. This time, anyway.”
“Slick part is, it noodges the real reading down to just under what’s posted.”
“It cheats?”
“It does.”
“That’s hardly legal.”
“Yeah, but it worked this time.”
“The app’s gonna come off the market when John Q and the cops find out it cheats. It’ll be publicly de-certified, discredited, anyway.”
“This one’s different.”
“How’s that?”
“Not commercial. Yet. I wrote this app.”
© spwilcenski 2021
exposed by spwilcenwrites “GeoCheating – February 9, 2021”
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