Don't know if any of you have seen the commercial by Cisco, but it starts out with a young man being thrown from his motorcycle, and apparently there is some sort of sensor in his helmet, and the audio says that the helmet sends a message to the nearest EMS unit, a signal is sent to the nearest hospital to best treat his injuries (while showing the picture of a geo-stationary satellite), the EMS unit is able to change all the traffic signals so they have green lights all the way to the hospital, and at the end says all this is possible because of Cisco. Sounds like a system that the AC could utilize as apparently the sensor in the man's helmet gave his GPS position and that something had happened to him.
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Is anyone in the comments section of the OP ranting about how being required to wear a helmet while motorcycling is evul nanny statism, oblivious to the irony? Just curious, and can't stomach going through it myself.
aebars,
Not yet, they are still seeing this as a sign of the end times being close. The rest of the paranoia hasn't kicked in yet.
Aaaand now they are on about helmets won't save you because g-d decides when you die!
"GPS position"? That's a little redundantly repetitive, isn't it?
BTW, your location can be tracked using your cell phone, iPad, etc. You might want to throw away all of your anti-Christ technology and go live in a cave somewhere.
The only drawback I can see to the system is people dropping their helmets on the sidewalk or down a flight of steps. Hopefully it beeps when it activates so they can call it in as a whoops, don't respond incident.
But I'm not a paranoid Rapturite who goes into fear mode at every damn thing.
So...it's basically an automatic personal emergency beacon. As long as it only transmits under emergency conditions, which you can check with some standard off-the-shelf hardware, it's not a privacy risk.
And GPS itself is inherently a receive only system (though routing its output to a transmitter isn't exactly hard, especially in the design phase).
@doubting thomas, canadiest re: dropping the helmet
As to tracking.....want to see where every ship (over a certain size and non-military) on the planet is?http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/
old lady: "I've fallen and I can't get up!"
Rapturite: "Well, keep it to yourself! You want FEMA to find out?"
@Adey
Aaaand now they are on about helmets won't save you because g-d decides when you die!
Seriously? By that logic, suicide is impossible.
You seem like the type that really needs a helmet, and not just when riding a bike.
Just line it with tinfoil. You'll be fine.
Not even Lead is sufficient to replace Aluminium as headgear nowadays, Ruptured Retards.
Ever heard of Neutrinos, which can pass through light-years -thicknesses of Lead, just as easily as photons through a vacuum...?!
The Large Hadron Collider. Just throwing that one out there. >:D
...oh, and a certain Prof. Kevin Warwick - leading expert in Cybernetics - would like a word with you, re. that 'Mark' malarkey. He had chips implanted in his arm, voluntarily , and of his own free will.
Cochlear implants, hardwired into the hearing centres of the brain. CCD chips implanted in the retina, hardwired into the visual cortex of the brain. [/"Ghost in the Shell"] >:D
And no-one has noticed that the advert has someone being thrown from a bicycle... so not only is Ann here confused about details (and what does that say about her ability to think critically about things?) but also that Broton was talking about the right kind of helmet...
Of course, this kind of system is a bloody good idea... but only a moral, just and loving person would ever object to it on the grounds that someone might know where they are is something bad happened to them.
Dionysius,
This is from Acts (and some numbers I didn't read);
"Wally, my brother does not wear a helmet. His life has confirmed, for me, that God won't take you 'till your time."
There's no hope for them.
ps this is Adey
"Aaaand now they are on about helmets won't save you because g-d decides when you die!"
Oh, so aborted fetuses were just meant to die and there's nothing to protest.
@Alencon :
[blockquote]Do you think we could convince them all that in order to make the Rapture occur all they need to do is give away everything they own and move to Antarctica?[/blockquote]
What have penguins ever done to you to deserve that?
So i concluded that if AC could use GPS on individuals we could all have our own temperature settings follow us around. If two people were in the room an algorithm could calculate a compromised temperature based on factors such as age, sex and movements through previous AC areas, eg; would you be coming into the room already warm or already cold. Personally i don't lie air con, it spreads germs and dries your eyes but i live in a relatively mild climate so can see how others would like this.
Then i realised they didn't mean air-con. Seriously.
@Big Jilm
"That's exactly right. The Anti Christ will use these chips and plant them in your brain"
...which is - as a comedian once said - the only possible reason why when one opens a can of Pringles, you have to finish them. They're so addictive, otherwise! X3
"Wally, my brother does not wear a helmet. His life has confirmed, for me, that God won't take you 'till your time."
And then they claim atheists are fatalistic...
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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