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Increasing numbers are giving up their cars for bus or train commuting and they usually say how relaxing it is after a day at work.
In fact they often fall asleep and miss their stop.
In the old days, I’m told, some sleepy UK train passengers used to put a card in their hat-band with their
station written on it.
Non-sleepy nearby passengers would wake them.
The practice apparently went out of use when UK workmen began wearing caps instead of hats.
I often fall asleep in the bus too these days and go past my stop.
Last time I used the bus I tried to keep awake by halfbaking an electronic method of pre-setting the stop signal.
I got no further than dreaming of a wakeup-sounding, ruggedised, touch-screen route-map on the back of each seat, with which to program one’s stop - and fell asleep.
Half Baked
http://www.halfbake..._20Commuter_20Waker
Funny. I went to search for a real product that I once saw and this came up in my first page of results. [blahginger, Apr 01 2001]
Alarm-Me: A Location Alarm / GPS Alarm
https://play.google...m_me&hl=en_GB&gl=US
[Skewed, Apr 01 2021]
Patent from 2006
https://patents.goo...tent/US8412148B2/en
[a1, Apr 01 2021]
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The modern way to do this might be to have a GPS-triggered
alarm on your phone |
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Excellent idea, [hippo]. It would probably work best if
integrated with Google Maps, or similar. |
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It's not really an idea, more like outlining a problem. And two decades of technological advance has not really come up with much in the way of solutions. |
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// gps triggered alarm // An app on my phone has
this. It shows bus and train arrivals in realtime,
and you can set an alarm for when the coach
you’re on is nearly to your
destination. Default is 1/3 of a mile but you can
adjust it. |
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You want a digital touch screen alarm clock in the
headrests? |
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What's wrong
with an ordinary alarm clock, everyone has one in their
mobile phone these days so what's the point? |
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//GPS-triggered alarm on your phone// |
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You should Google that & if no one's
doe it already patent & develop it asap, there'd be
money in that if you're the first one. |
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Sadly you're not though <link> |
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Research in Motion (aka Blackberry) did patent this
in 2006. I wonder if any app developers are paying
royalties on it. |
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I think they'd only have to if they were using Blackberry's
code, I could be wrong of course. |
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