Speed Alert - monitoring driver speed in car and remotely.
SpeedAlert is the product of a Sydney, Oz company Smart Car Technologies, that links real-time location data and speed calculated from real time GPS linked to an on board database of posted speed limits stored in a driver's portable PDA or programmable mobile phone.
"It's a clever idea," said Federal Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane of the Australian government, which helped fund research into the product with a Aus.$64,000 Commercialising Emerging Technologies grant announced in March this year.
Speed Alert Knows the limit where you are
- Knows how fast you are going
- Alerts you when you are speeding
- Alerts you to school zones when active
- Alerts you to speed and redlight cameras
- Runs on your Mobile or PDA
It could be used by parents to remotely monitor teen driving.
Developing intelligent speed alert systems is high on the agenda of European governments, which cooperate on overall Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) strategies. The European Commission supports a separate project, also called SpeedAlert, whose web site states: "In-vehicle speed information and warning system can significantly contribute to road safety."
It doesn't appear that the United States is interested in supporting such a speed-alert strategy. It doesn't appear that the United States is interested in supporting such a speed-alert strategy. Each year, more than 40,000 Americans are killed and nearly 3 million injured in some 6.3 million traffic accidents. The odds of dying in a traffic accident are about 1-in-100 for a U.S. resident. And motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for those ages 2 through 33.
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported in March 2006
1. 58 percent of those killed in road accidents who were not wearing a seat belt crashed along rural roads.
2. In crashes involving pickup trucks, about seven in 10 people who died were unbelted.
3.More than six in 10 people age 8 to 44 who were killed inside a passenger vehicle were not buckled up. 
1 comment:
One automatic-update later and your trusty, old-fashioned GPS could be issuing you with speeding fines as you drive, via a thermal printer situated where the ashtray used to be before smoking became illegal.
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