Smokey and the Crowdsource Bandit
11 January 2012 by Steve Blum
Android, CES2019, consumer electronics, crowdsource, Escort, geek stuff, iphone, mobile, showstoppers
Android, CES2019, consumer electronics, crowdsource, Escort, geek stuff, iphone, mobile, showstoppers
Burt Reynolds made a couple of good movies and several bad ones featuring fast cars, CB radios and a determined, but dim-witted, police pursuit. A 21st Century remake of Smokey and the Bandit or Cannonball Run would feature Escort Inc’s SmartCord-enabled radar detectors, which can pull in real time radar/lidar trap information from every similarly equipped car on the road and display it on a smartphone screen.
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