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Telecommunications This mobile phone could save your life | This mobile phone could save your life |
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| Written by Stuart Corner | |
| Monday, 28 May 2007 | |
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Page 2 of 2 The project is part of Oki's involvement in the "New IT Reform Strategy" announced by Japan’s Cabinet Office to develop technologies that can reduce the number of pedestrians killed in traffic accidents. The government and private sectors will start large-scale trials for systems to improve pedestrian safety from the fiscal year ending March 2009, with plans to start operations from the fiscal year ending March 2011. However it's hard to see the technology working satisfactorily in busy urban environments, where the danger of pedestrian collisions is greatest and the coverage of GPS worst. It would seem likely that the close proximity of vehicles and pedestrians would generate so many potential collisions as to make the system ineffective.{moscomment}
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