ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Nearly 25% of 17-24 year old drivers admit to using their smartphones to send and receive emails, use Facebook, Twitter etc. while driving (link). I wonder if the CC collective could suggest the best model of smartphone for this important new application?
A ruggedised phone would be an intelligent choice, but since many young drivers are clearly not capable of making intelligent choices for themselves, their parents should take responsibility for choosing their sprogs' phones.
Impact resistance of the phone is a very desirable feature - after all, you never know when the next cyclist or pedestrian might come through the windscreen and headbutt the phone!
A fire-resistant phone could be a life-saver. You wouldn't want Oliver/Olivia to be trapped in a burning car and to be unable to phone for help, would you?
Battery life is another huge issue. If hanging by your seatbelt in an upside-down car in a water-filled ditch beside a field in the wilds of East Anglia after careering off the road while checking the latest Tweets about a football star caught snorting coke off the breasts of a ladyboy in a dodgy Burnley nightclub ... the last thing you'd want is for your phone battery to go flat while you were trying to send for the emergency services to come and cut you out!
Accurate GPS is important so you can tell the 999 operator exactly where you are trapped in your burning vehicle.
App choice could be important ...
Nagging Dad is very helpful! This app uses a phone's GPS to monitor the speed of the vehicle and if it is found to be going at more than 20 mph over the speed limit while accessing Facebook, a recording of dad shouting "Slow down Joe, what's the hurry!" is played through the phone's speaker.
Grand Theft Auto (Mobile Edition) is a lot of fun. If the driver runs out of real pedestrians and cyclists to kill, (s)he can wipe out hordes of virtual ones instead!
Hot Response Legal Team automatically sends a text to the nearest firm of ambulance-chaser solitictors when an impact is detected. This message includes the location of the collision. Typically, the legal team will be at the accident scene before the police even arrive!
Spot The Braincell is a test designed to check that the driver is actually stupid enough to use a smartphone while driving. It asks 10 questions such as "What is your name?" and "What is the day after Monday called - Tuesday or Heaviside Step Function?" to determine the IQ of the driver. If one or more questions is correctly answered, the smartphone screen is automatically blanked as long as the GPS detects that the vehicle is moving.
Next Of Kin prompts the driver for the contact details of everyone in the car before a journey begins. If an impact is detected during the journey, text messages are automatically sent to their families warning them to prepare themselves for bad news.
They Deserve Each Other is a social networking app which tries to match up drivers using Facebook or Twitter while driving in the same locality. It takes control of their SatNavs and instructs them to drive towards each other. 5 seconds before the predicted collision, the SatNavs cut out and fate takes over.
So, CycleChatters - What Smartphone For Drivers?
A ruggedised phone would be an intelligent choice, but since many young drivers are clearly not capable of making intelligent choices for themselves, their parents should take responsibility for choosing their sprogs' phones.
Impact resistance of the phone is a very desirable feature - after all, you never know when the next cyclist or pedestrian might come through the windscreen and headbutt the phone!
A fire-resistant phone could be a life-saver. You wouldn't want Oliver/Olivia to be trapped in a burning car and to be unable to phone for help, would you?
Battery life is another huge issue. If hanging by your seatbelt in an upside-down car in a water-filled ditch beside a field in the wilds of East Anglia after careering off the road while checking the latest Tweets about a football star caught snorting coke off the breasts of a ladyboy in a dodgy Burnley nightclub ... the last thing you'd want is for your phone battery to go flat while you were trying to send for the emergency services to come and cut you out!
Accurate GPS is important so you can tell the 999 operator exactly where you are trapped in your burning vehicle.
App choice could be important ...
Nagging Dad is very helpful! This app uses a phone's GPS to monitor the speed of the vehicle and if it is found to be going at more than 20 mph over the speed limit while accessing Facebook, a recording of dad shouting "Slow down Joe, what's the hurry!" is played through the phone's speaker.
Grand Theft Auto (Mobile Edition) is a lot of fun. If the driver runs out of real pedestrians and cyclists to kill, (s)he can wipe out hordes of virtual ones instead!
Hot Response Legal Team automatically sends a text to the nearest firm of ambulance-chaser solitictors when an impact is detected. This message includes the location of the collision. Typically, the legal team will be at the accident scene before the police even arrive!
Spot The Braincell is a test designed to check that the driver is actually stupid enough to use a smartphone while driving. It asks 10 questions such as "What is your name?" and "What is the day after Monday called - Tuesday or Heaviside Step Function?" to determine the IQ of the driver. If one or more questions is correctly answered, the smartphone screen is automatically blanked as long as the GPS detects that the vehicle is moving.
Next Of Kin prompts the driver for the contact details of everyone in the car before a journey begins. If an impact is detected during the journey, text messages are automatically sent to their families warning them to prepare themselves for bad news.
They Deserve Each Other is a social networking app which tries to match up drivers using Facebook or Twitter while driving in the same locality. It takes control of their SatNavs and instructs them to drive towards each other. 5 seconds before the predicted collision, the SatNavs cut out and fate takes over.
So, CycleChatters - What Smartphone For Drivers?
