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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 29 2016, @10:00AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 29 2016, @10:00AM (#447021)

    That's a very American point of view, you only have had roads for a couple of houndred years or so? Roads was invented a couple of thousands years before cars.

    If you hit somehing on the road you hit something on the road. And if you hit something on the road you didn't drive in in a safe manner. You are responsible if you hit somehing and that doesn't change due to what you hit. You are responsible if you hit a deer, horse, bicylclist, kid, Kid(pun) or other livstock, pet, a fallen tree or anything else.