The Buckets by Greg Cravens for October 06, 2016

maybe they should with today generation

Very good! The kid knows the difference.

Once cars start communicating with each other, emergency vehicles will be able to broadcast their route and you’ll be forced to make way for them. not a bad thing.

Don’t Tweet And Drive!!

Ah, but how long will it take them to find out what everyone who is in their way’s Twitter names and phone numbers are? :-)

See, you can’t use social media for everything.

If they did then they would be the biggest idiots on the planet.

xxx

What an interesting concept, Greg. Sometimes I have this mental picture of you lurking outside the local playground or teen ‘hotspot’ to get ideas. I know you probably don’t do anything quite so stalker to gather inspiration but don’t correct me – the mental picture is just too cool.

Interesting idea, but obviously impractical in so many ways. How about a device installed in all cars, designed to pick up a signal from an emergency vehicle within a certain range? When it gets that signal, it could light up or beep or both.

Of course, actual sirens are pretty effective. And you can usually get a sense of where they are and whether they’re really nearby, so why mess with what works?

It’s not working with sirens, but it does with earthquakes.

https://blog.twitter.com/2014/using-twitter-to-measure-earthquake-impact-in-almost-real-time