Archive for November, 2013

You probably heard – on 10/19/13 a 3 person team led by Ed Bolian drove from New York to Los Angeles in 28 hours 50 minutes, breaking the coast to coast (”transcontinental”) record famously set by Alex Roy (31 hours 4 minutes, 2006 – Alex broke the previous record of 32 hours 7 minutes). As in the hilarious Burt Reynolds movie “Cannonball Run”, the route leaves from Manhattan and ends up at the Portofino Hotel and Marina in Redondo Beach, California.

You may not have heard – they used Trapster! Friends in lead cars at various stages along the way spotted police on the road ahead. Guessing that’s how they leveraged Trapster (the friends would place the police reports in the app). If so, very interesting. Trapster was originally intended to be used this way – as a private system for groups of friends. It was later that I redesigned Trapster as a public system. In any case, awesome to see people still using Trapster after all these years!

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