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Mobile phones have been one of the leading causes of accidents not only for drivers and motorists but also for pedestrians. You see, this happens when we are so engrossed at sending a message or reading an SMS or checking out what’s happening online on our mobile phone that we forget that we are in a dangerous zone - cars are speeding all around us.
Now so as to alleviate such a problem, there is one Japanese company, OKI, who is currently working up on a new kind of technology for mobile phones. This new one would actually alert and constantly remind pedestrians about being careful when in the outside jungle. This new technology would be used on mobile phones as well as on vehicles that come with the DSRC (meaning Dedicated Short Range Communications) technology.
If you are a pedestrian, you would be feeling your mobile phone vibrate if you come in the range of a vehicle around 150 meters of your vicinity. And if you are a driver, your GPS system would tell you through voice warnings that there is a pedestrian in your midst.
I think this one’s to be released in 2011 in Japan.
[Via Yahoo! Tech]
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