Maybe somebody could make a cellular bicycle bell: some sort of electronic beacon I could attach to my bicycle that would notify approaching drivers that it's time to look out the windshield and look for something in the road ahead.
At first I thought it should just Jam the signal, but that would probably just trigger an undesirable response, like looking at the phone to see what's wrong with it -- or tapping redial -- or changing batteries, and reducing the driver's radius-of-perception to less than one meter.
That's where I came up with the idea that the phone, if on-hook, would just politely tinkle like a bicycle bell. If the phone is in use, it would mix and audio stream into the conversation that says "there's a bicycle ahead."
If the conversation and the car continue at the same speed, or faster, the audio stream (this time louder that the conversation) would say "Look Out For The Bicycle."
If there was still no slowing of the car or the conversation, it would shout: "HEY #@*%#, THERE"S A BIKE AHEAD!! WATCH THE ROAD!!!
I figure there's probably some way to avoid having to plug the phone into the speedometer to make this work: compare signal strength using the inverse squares rule -or- doppler effect -or- differential GPS.
It would be even handier if the gizmo on the bike was 2 way so it could alert me if a cell phone is approaching -- and which direction it's coming from. That way I can take evasive actions or employ active countermeasures.
Did I mention my idea for the subminiature cell-phone-seeking cruise missile?;)
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Maybe somebody could make a cellular bicycle bell: some sort of electronic beacon I could attach to my bicycle that would notify approaching drivers that it's time to look out the windshield and look for something in the road ahead.
;)
At first I thought it should just Jam the signal, but that would probably just trigger an undesirable
response, like looking at the phone to see what's wrong with it -- or tapping redial -- or changing batteries, and reducing the driver's radius-of-perception to less than one meter.
That's where I came up with the idea that the phone, if on-hook, would just politely tinkle like a bicycle bell. If the phone is in use, it would mix and audio stream into the conversation that says "there's a bicycle ahead."
If the conversation and the car continue at the same speed, or faster, the audio stream (this time louder that the conversation) would say "Look Out For The Bicycle."
If there was still no slowing of the car or the conversation, it would shout: "HEY #@*%#, THERE"S
A BIKE AHEAD!! WATCH THE ROAD!!!
I figure there's probably some way to avoid having to plug the phone into the speedometer to make this work: compare signal strength using the inverse squares rule -or- doppler effect -or- differential GPS.
It would be even handier if the gizmo on the bike was 2 way so it could alert me if a cell phone is approaching -- and which direction it's coming from. That way I can take evasive actions or employ active countermeasures.
Did I mention my idea for the subminiature cell-phone-seeking cruise missile?