On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 10:49 PM, William Muriithi
<william.muriithi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have seen some Ads in the newspapers by some enterprising Kenyans who say
> they can wire your car in a such a way that you can be able to watch/view
> at any point in time what is happening in the car - for example where the
> driver is headed or doing with the car.
Think uploading GPS coordinate is more effective. Think of the
bandwidth dealing with images would need? And then you need to be
checking on the camera often or uploading everything somewhere and
scanning through the pictures. Just don't scale well
Granted, problem with GPS is you can't tell if the driver is
mistreating the car. Hitting every pot hole on the road for example.
Hmm, actually, I think its possible. Have something like a CCTV
security system with huge disk and save everything on the car. Once
the car come back, pull the disk out and scan through the daily stream
of images that have been captured though the day. That leaves only
one problem, you need a resources to be scanning through lots of
mostly banal picture. Agree they would catch some interesting stuff
once in a while. Ah, and its a psychological deterence of the driver
driving badly even if you never check the pictures, so yea worth it.
Me urging with myself, sorry
How about a simple scenario where you have a phone capable of video calls installed in the vehicle and
1. Phone is wired to charge via vehicle electrical system
2. Phone is configured to auto-answer any incoming calls
3. Phone is discreetly mounted somewhere in the vehicle
You call the number in the phone and voila!
My imagination.
PS: As a matter of fact, I've head of cases where folks by dead phones to pluck out the camera - though this still
sounds like a myth to me...