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Something I wish existed: a mobile app that dynamically calculates the probability you're about to crash your car, based on your speed, the history of the piece of road you're on, the weather, the time of day, accelerometer data, etc.
Version one just tells you about dangerous bits of road. I occasionally find myself on a bit of road that's palpably dangerous. I bet some 100 yard stretches have 1000x as many crashes per car as others. It would be helpful to be warned about these.
Obviously it would not display the probability as a number, but rather beep and/or glow red or something when it crossed a threshold.
Since probabilities would vary a lot more than your course was unpredictable, it would sometimes be able to warn you eerily far ahead of time. If it was good enough, there would be times when it would go off as soon as you got in your car.
feed this into a mapping app and you could choose the “safest” route- important for new drivers especially
It jumps to 100% if the phone detects you are looking at it.
Is car crash data public information?
The dangerous stretches should be called Nast Bits.
Would also like to see data about driving habits that predicts accidents. E.g.: Compared to population, how often do you have a "near miss"? Unwittingly cut off a driver while merging? Follow too closely? Obstruct faster traffic? Which are predictive of a future accident?
Conventional wisdom puts heavy emphasis on speeding, almost to the exclusion of everything else, but I suspect it's a weaker signal than society thinks.
With something like a sign that warns you of the dangers of the road ahead? Steep incline, tight turns, reduce speed? If only the government would pay for that... you wouldn’t even have to look at your phone!
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