I’m busy with the multi-part teen GPS series of posts but I came across this item which seemed a bit too good to pass up.
It doesn’t matter if you’re a teen or a tottering old man as I am, there’s little doubt that fatigue plays a significant part in the risk factor.
One thing many managers [...]

How’s My Driving Signs: One of the simplest ideas can also be the cheapest. Services that center around an 800 number call-in system to report unsafe acts are widely available. You’ve all seen vehicles from Class 8 over-the-road trucks to neighborhood delivery fans with one of those: “How’s my Driving? Call 1-800-xxx-yyyy with [...]

Full story here: http://www.newszap.com/articles/2005/11/15/fl/lake_okeechobee/aok01.txt
I’m actually a bit sad to read this. When you look at Joe Bill’s history you can see we, society, ought to have been able to do something to help this man, but perhaps he would not be helped.
Florida is one of the leaders in tracking these scary sex offenders with [...]

The first thing that comes to mind in this area is the question why would you want to track teenage drivers?
The first answer that comes to my mind is, to save their lives. It will only take one senseless death averted to make all my ramblings more than worthwhile. Is teenage death by [...]

Some may think this is just a wacky story from Australia … was this woman really going 216 kilometers per hour (over 134 mph), and if she was, why the heck do I care?
Well if you have a teenage driver, or if you run a business (or even worse, if you have a business which [...]

Here’s a nice little news item to brighten a Monday morning. A trucking fleet owner has one of his trucks captured by an unmanned speed camera at 247 km/h … that’s about 159 mph for the Metrically challenged.
The fine and subsequent insurance problems could have put a real dent in his November profits and [...]

My last post regarding making progress on integrated E911 … putting cell phone locations on maps for emergency response has led to a thought for the day. The world is full of highly talented programmers, Always endeavoring to “show off” their “stuff”. There are great tools available, such as Google earth that are [...]