Well today I found another need that the iPhone could fulfill. I'm camping with my family and for the first time, we pulled our pop-up camper two and a half hours to Stone Mountain, GA. It was great, but I noticed that I really needed to know quickly whether or not there was traffic behind me, beside me, or in my blind spot.
As a private pilot who doesn't fly much but keeps up with the magazines, I know there are traffice avoidance devices on general aviation aircraft. Now how hard would it be to take that technology and make it work on an app for your phone?
Say it is some sort of rechargeable (or solar powered) bluetooth device that mounts on your trunk or toward the back of your vehicle. It is simply a little bubble, much like we are used to seeing for GPS, or Satellite Radio today. So it wouldn't look out of place at all. However, this little beauty would send a very low powered radar signal around to pick up the location of other traffic and display it on your iPhone! Now if Garmin would add this to a GPS app (that they still haven't built yet) that would be GREAT! Then you'd have your map, your traffic, and more in one easy location!
Imagine driving through Atlanta traffic and not having to check your mirrors...
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