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Reindeer Collision Avoidance App

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday December 28 2016, @01:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the on-Comet-on-Cupid-on-Donner-and-Roadkill dept.

takyon writes:

Long live Rudolph:

There's good news for Rudolph and his friends—an app is helping officials reduce the number of reindeer killed in traffic accidents in Finland. Some 300,000 reindeer freely wander the wilds of Lapland in Arctic Finland. An estimated 4,000 are killed every year through road accidents, officials say, and compensation to reindeer herders can be expensive.

[...] A simple, one-button interface allows drivers to tap their smartphone screens to register any reindeer spotted near roads. Using GPS technology, it creates a 1.5-kilometer (1-mile) warning zone that lasts for an hour and warns other app users approaching the area. "If there are reindeer, (drivers) reduce speed," Ylinampa said. "When they have passed the warning place, then they can get back to the normal speed again."

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday December 28 2016, @03:01PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday December 28 2016, @03:01PM (#446709) Journal

    Now what would be useful and maybe even possible is the aircraft carrier concept of every car has a drone hanger full of rechargeable drones and you got three drones in the air providing close air support for your car at all times. I suspect a drone could physically scare the hell out of a deer if the drone decided the deer was going to get hit. Or warn off a little kid, maybe. I suppose in high traffic areas the drones could cooperate so you'd only launch one, and you'd only need a three drone skirmish line for dark country roads, maybe.

    Yes, yes, yes... 3 times a yes!!! Even better, the more, the merrier ... having things swarming around you head (or car for this matter) is pure joy [wikipedia.org]

    (grin)

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Wednesday December 28 2016, @03:20PM

    by VLM (445) on Wednesday December 28 2016, @03:20PM (#446719)

    It is surprising video drone downlinks aren't being merged into self driving cars. It should be trivial for a self driving car to parallelize its video inputs to get far better situational awareness than a human driven car could ever have, and the car is essentially an infinite source of recharging power even if the drones only individually have 5 minutes of flight ability. If you're planning a route in a city you could send the drones ahead to check it out.

    For the military obviously if you can see it you can kill it, so drones are not popular idea for armor, at least not for ambushes LOL, but if the tank is kinda going "active mode" rather than passive maybe it would work for IED avoidance and stuff. If you're firing the main cannon you're not all that well hidden anyway so may as well launch the surveillance drones to make sure you're not getting flanked.

    To say nothing of secret service detail type applications. Assuming they aren't already doing this, of course. You might only have ten protective agents in a transportation caravan but maybe 200 eyes circulating all over continuously, maybe 2000 eyes with extensive computer automation. Sure, go drive by that Texas book depository, nothing bad can happen because there's a drone literally hovering above every window, every single window has its observation drone, watching for anything weird.