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Proximity aware systems are beginning to appear in experimental cars.
The obvious outgrowth of this is some sort of wireless app that ensures all vehicles and pedestrians and roadside furniture are fitted with a broadcasting device that allows them to interact with each other, to prevent unnecessary
collisions.
Simple algorithms allow items travelling slowly to approach each other more closely than objects moving at speed.
I'm sure this would be possible with existing technology. I'm unsure how popular it would actually be, if implemented.
Backup Proximity Sensor
http://www.backup-sensor.com/
Lotsa current model vehicles use factory-installed versions of this technology to warn of impending contact with another object. I imagine it would work as well in forward as it does in reverse, and could be relatively easily installed on a pedestrian if he was willing to lug the battery. [jurist, Nov 16 2005]
"Please be Careful"
http://www.physorg.com/news8214.html
To be tested first in a safe city: Tokyo. [reensure, Nov 16 2005]
Gap Alerter
Gap_20alerter
Similar idea... [kmlabs, Nov 18 2005]
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You missed several good opportunities to be an acronym hero there, [UB]... |
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Pedestrians with broadcasting devices, as in protesters with megaphones? |
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Check out Bruce Sterling's "Distraction", and look for the description of the Texas Market Crowd control Device (somewhere just over halfway, if my terrifyingly geeky memory serves). |
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Yeah, I've not heard of cellphones tripping anti-shoplifting systems. |
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Mine occasionally causes something to beep at the builders' merchant checkout, but only when I'm standing *really close* to the sensor. |
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Probably your wife checking how much you're spending. |
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Hey, she actually *encouraged* me to buy a guitar last week. |
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But this is on top of the nineteen I have already. |
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What is it with guitarists and the need to collect so many guitars? |
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I don't collect so much as accumulate. Each is significantly different from the others, and most have been used on stage. |
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Not a Strat fan, but I would have taken the Bison off your hands. My only Burns is a 1973 Flyte. My Hofner (1969-ish Galaxie) is currently a box o' bits also.
You should try to get a Coronado Wildwood; they're quite rare. |
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Strum a pedestrian today. |
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Yeah, sorry, [UB]; getting a bit off topic there. |
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I can't believe you didn't call this CRASH: Collision Recognisant Avoidance System Hsomethingelse. |
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[UB] I've voted for this. I posted an idea yesterday (see link) that sounds very similar - your idea strikes me as more aimed at dense traffic situations though? |
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/By the way - any of you guys ^ want to buy a BC Rich Bodyart Mockingbird or a Jackson JS30DK? =) |
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