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posted by cmn32480 on Monday May 04 2015, @04:40PM   Printer-friendly
from the is-it-here-yet???? dept.

The Herald Sun reports that Australian-based chain Dominos Pizza have developed a GPS Driver Tracker to let customers track the location of their pizzas in real time.

While the app is intended to mollify salivating customers concerns about the interminable wait for their cheesy comestible, it has had the additional benefit of reducing accident rates among delivery drivers. An eighteen month trial halved the number of potentially dangerous habits such as speeding and taking corners too quickly. Chief Executive Don Meij said in an interview “There’s a lot of behavior you can learn about and change as a result,”

Disclaimer: I like pizza.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by The Archon V2.0 on Monday May 04 2015, @06:56PM

    by The Archon V2.0 (3887) on Monday May 04 2015, @06:56PM (#178694)

    Actually I argue with taxi drivers because the last time I let one pick the route he, of the five major avenues he could have turned left on, picked the only one that didn't have a left-turn arrow so we were stuck in the turning lane through three full light sequences, during which he texted someone back and forth while the meter kept ticking up.

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