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December 31, 2006
FOR IRATE DRIVERS, A WEBSITE FOR ROAD-RAGING
It’s called www.PlateWire.com, and people who might otherwise act out their anger against bad drivers in harmful ways can visit the site and vent online, by identifying the offender’s license plate number and describing his or her bad behavior. Did someone cut you off? Give you the proverbial finger? Speed in the slow lane, dawdle in the fast lane? PlateWire is the place to nail them.
At least, that’s the idea, according to a published report in the Detroit News. PlateWire was "born out of frustration from years of driving alongside drivers who seem to have no concern with anyone's safety, including their own," its founders say on the site. “The venture does raise some thorny privacy issues, not to mention the possibility of lawsuits over disputed public identification of erratic driving,” the article notes. Whether it will also help reduce anger-propelled road crashes is not discussed.
Posted by MVHAP at December 31, 2006 09:02 AM