Ukraine, this territory of Eastern Europe that few people had heard of until last year and the beginning of the war with Russia, is a country that emerged as a result of the collapse of the USSR. And despite the conflict, everyday life continues in this country with a share of bad habits.
Indeed, it would seem that denunciation is a common practice in Ukraine, as evidenced by its existenceUa dashcam applicationavailable from 2021 in the App Store for Apple iOS smartphones and in the Google Play Store for Android models.
dashcamUa: A mobile app that encourages whistleblowing
As its name suggests, this program acts as a video recorder constantly fix the traffic in front to track the slightest violations by other motorists.
While it can be useful in the event of an accident and is highly recommended by insurance companies to determine third-party liability, this dash cam app is a little more cunning: it actually encourages its users to share videos of documented offenses with the Ukrainian authoritiesto “promote road safety”.
On the key for informer drivers, reward up to 10% of the amount of the fine addressed to the offender, whom the police will identify thanks to the video transmitted in the application.
dashcamUa: with us soon?
In practice, if a violation is witnessed, the user simply needs to click on the screen to receive a excerpt from the last 30 seconds recorded video that can be viewed, saved and sent to authorities.
This mobile application seems to be quite successful in its country of origin, so its creators are planningexport to other European countriesespecially in the United Kingdom.
In France, even if such an initiative is not yet on the agenda, we remind you that the law already requires vehicle owners who have received a fine for violating traffic rules to denounce the actual driver of the vehicle at the time of the offense if not the owner of the vehicle. The measure is aimed particularly at drivers of company or rental vehicles, but it doesn’t take much to ensure that in the future it a taste for denunciation not covered further in our Highway Code…
Source: Auto Plus
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