Navigation Upgrade
You know what would be cool? I do. A GPS navigation receiver and the corresponding system that would allow drivers to get real time traffic conditions in their vehicle. It would be a blast to set something like this up. It wouldn’t be too complicated, but the cost would be steep. You would first have to setup speed detectors on all of the major through fares in a metropolitan area, set up a communication network (I’m thinking radar to a radio staion so that you could piggy back on AM or FM), then you just release the standards of your message broadcasting so that GPS nav system designers can implement it. This system would be extremely useful in people’s day-to-day lives, and what’s more it could be infinately tweaked and adjusted for performance. Come to think of it, a system like this would be pretty cheap to setup and maintain when compared to the transportation budget of a large city. Any engineering teams want to pick me up to work on this? Any banks want to give me a few million dollars?
Tags: design, gps, navigation