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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 kaszz on Tuesday May 05 2015, @02:37AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Tuesday May 05 2015, @02:37AM (#178909) Journal

    This sounds like a service that will enable people to just rob the delivery transport for food or fiat money. Despite all the supposed goodies of transparency.

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