HELPING DRUNKEN DRIVERS AVOID TICKETS, BUT NOT WRECKS:

"Last month, Senators Harry Reid, Charles E. Schumer, Frank R. Lautenberg and Tom Udall asked Apple, Google and Research In Motion, the maker of BlackBerrys, to remove apps from their online stores that help drunken drivers evade sobriety checkpoints."  Black berry was the only group to pull the apps.  However, Google and Apple refused and stated that the app does not violate the company's content policy. In supplying the precise locations of sobriety checkpoints, these apps do nothing illegal. They do not supply sexually explicit material, nor do they bully anyone, nor do they embody hate speech. Those are three of the nine categories that Google forbids for Android apps.  "SOBRIETY checkpoints are the rare case in which the public interest would best be served with information that is less precise than technology is capable of providing. General alerts are good: they help spread the word and deter drunken driving. But they should blanket the town rather than show up as pushpins on a smartphone’s street map."  This is yet again another example of how technology can be a problem.  I think these kinds of apps should be illegal and those who create them should be punished.