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Increasing numbers are giving up their cars for bus or train commuting and they usually say how relaxing it is after a day at work.
In fact they often fall asleep and miss their stop.
In the old days, I’m told, some sleepy UK train passengers used to put a card in their hat-band with their
station written on it.
Non-sleepy nearby passengers would wake them.
The practice apparently went out of use when UK workmen began wearing caps instead of hats.
I often fall asleep in the bus too these days and go past my stop.
Last time I used the bus I tried to keep awake by halfbaking an electronic method of pre-setting the stop signal.
I got no further than dreaming of a wakeup-sounding, ruggedised, touch-screen route-map on the back of each seat, with which to program one’s stop - and fell asleep.
Half Baked
http://www.halfbake..._20Commuter_20Waker Funny. I went to search for a real product that I once saw and this came up in my first page of results. [blahginger, Apr 01 2001]
Alarm-Me: A Location Alarm / GPS Alarm
https://play.google...m_me&hl=en_GB&gl=US [Skewed, Apr 01 2021]
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The modern way to do this might be to have a GPS-triggered
alarm on your phone |
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Excellent idea, [hippo]. It would probably work best if
integrated with Google Maps, or similar. |
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It's not really an idea, more like outlining a problem. And two decades of technological advance has not really come up with much in the way of solutions. |
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You want a digital touch screen alarm clock in the
headrests? |
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What's wrong
with an ordinary alarm clock, everyone has one in their
mobile phone these days so what's the point? |
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//GPS-triggered alarm on your phone// |
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You should Google that & if no one's
doe it already patent & develop it asap, there'd be
money in that if you're the first one. |
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Sadly you're not though <link> |
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I think they'd only have to if they were using Blackberry's
code, I could be wrong of course. |
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