{"id":2758,"date":"2010-01-16T08:51:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T16:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=2758"},"modified":"2010-01-16T09:01:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T17:01:50","slug":"tailgateometer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=2758","title":{"rendered":"Tailgateometer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday while driving back to Pasadena from Norco.\u00a0 I was plagued by a tailgater.\u00a0 I wasn’t in the fast lane and I wasn’t driving slowly. \u00a0 All of a sudden there was a car a few feet from my back bumper going 70 mph.\u00a0\u00a0 It scared me.\u00a0 I contemplated slowing down, speeding up and slamming on the brakes.\u00a0 Finally in desperation I invented the tailgateometer and now I’m giving the idea to you.\u00a0 This brilliant devise automatically posts the license plate number of any vehicle that tailgates the owner to the website BadDrivers.com.<\/p>\n

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LAPD traffic <\/em><\/p>\n

The technology already exists to do all of the steps of this process.\u00a0 The remote components of\u00a0 the tailgateometer consist of a proximity detector, a speed indicator, a digital camera, a gps and a 3g network phone.\u00a0 All of these are cleverly combined into a compact box that peeks out from your trunk.\u00a0 At the web site there will be scanning software to convert the image into alphanumeric characters and a web site that publishes the data.\u00a0 The data will be sortable by location, time and by license tag number.<\/p>\n

What about liability?\u00a0 First there is no presumption of a right to privacy in a public place.\u00a0 Second the picture will speak for itself.\u00a0 Third the publishing of the information doesn’t presume to say who is driving the tailgating car or that they are guilty of any traffic infraction.<\/p>\n

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a tailgating incident in the Philippines<\/em><\/p>\n

It is like having your own personal redlight camera.\u00a0 The existence of a few thousand tailgateometers will have a real effect on peoples driving and will save lives.\u00a0 It will be a particularly effective tool against young drivers who when they are in their cars today feel that they are anonymous and can get away with things like tailgating.\u00a0 I not sure if the tailgateometer should be announced or concealed.\u00a0 What do you think?<\/p>\n

The cost in production should be less than $150.\u00a0 Sell price could start as high as $800 and would have to be in the $300 range to sell real volume.\u00a0 It would cost about a hundred thousand dollars to build a prototype.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday while driving back to Pasadena from Norco.\u00a0 I was plagued by a tailgater.\u00a0 I wasn’t in the fast lane and I wasn’t driving slowly. \u00a0 All of a sudden there was a car a few feet from my back bumper going 70 mph.\u00a0\u00a0 It scared me.\u00a0 I contemplated slowing down, speeding up and slamming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-success"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-Iu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2760,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions\/2760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}