What’s it do?
It’s an app that uses your phone’s native camera and sensors to tell you if you’re driving a safe distance from the cars in front of you, and alerts you visually and audibly if you’re approaching a car or object in front of you that pose a danger for collisions.
Why do we like it?
Battling AR aliens around the city is cool and all (kind of), but this is the kind of thing that the really stupidly advanced tech that we take for granted every day should be used for. It runs in the background so you don’t have to close out of navigation apps, and its audio alert is good for if you’re a distracted or sleepy (read: dangerous and bad) driver. It’s also got some cool features like automatically starting up when you start driving.
The Best
Can be a lifesaver
The Worst
Not great at night
Jazz
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 11:09 AMI’ve actually got a 13 hour drive to do this weekend so that will be a good test for this.
Sam
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 12:17 PMWhat’s that I smell? CPU running at close to 100% and my phone melting?
51kbee
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 12:34 PMThis surely couldn’t be safe trying to control the app and looking at your phone whilst driving???
Blake
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 1:05 PMFirstly, it would be like glancing at your speedo every five seconds.
Secondly it has a colour coded safe unsafe system so it would take less time to analyze than the speedo.
Thirdly I’d be shocked if there wasn’t a sound warning also.
MotorMouth
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 1:29 PMOn what planet is it safe to be as close as 1.5 s from the vehicle in front? 2.0s is the minimum anyone should use, although the RTA will tell you it is 3 seconds. Of course, if you are on a freeway and leave more than a few car lengths, all that will happen is some dickhead will see it as an opportunity to cut in front of you, so its a bit of a waste of time. I’d also suggest that counting the gap, i.e. start counting when the vehicle in front passes a sign and stop when you do, is an simpler method that doesn’t require you to take your eyes off the road at all. It is probably just as reliable, too.
Gabriel
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 5:26 PMYeah i was thinking the same thing. I always got told 3 seconds. And i always do that counting trick when the car in front passes a small landmark on the road. Pretty simple. If you need an app to aid your driving, you are not a safe driver and shouldn’t be driving anyway
Ghostly
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 5:19 PMAlways wanted something like this but I want it as part of a HUD projected on to the windscreen… one day soon hopefully…
warcroft
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 7:48 PMWhat, people cant just count to two?
Joel Bruce
Saturday, November 12, 2011 at 1:38 AMAm I the only one extremely pissed off and sick of tech developers feeling the necessity to put ‘i’ on every goddamned product?
HighlyDubious
Monday, November 14, 2011 at 9:30 AMiAgree
Remy
Monday, November 14, 2011 at 8:48 PMI hear all that chatter and your opinions are OK…But did anyone pick up on the name “iOnRoad” “For Android:” ????? Just Lols for me…