JUST IN CASE BLOGGER DOES NOT SAVE MY BLOG AUTOMATICALLY I AM SAVING IT NOW. HEY IF YOU HAD JUST LOST TWO HOURS BECAUSE YOU DOZED OFF AT THE KEYBOARD, THEN CAME TO, OR TO, OR TWO AND YOUR BEAUTIFUL CONSPIRACY THEORY HAD GONE UP IN DREAMS YOU CANNOT FIND AGAIN ANDDDDDD THE SOFTWARE HAS DONE THE SAME IN THE CYBER REALM - - - - WELL THEN, YOU CAN APPRECIATE THAT BLOGGER WOULD SAVE IT AUTOMATICALLY FOR YOU.
Thanks for letting me test my CAP acity.
Nevertheless, being a natural dozer and a conditioned skeptic and an educated paranoiac, and ..., I try to take every precaution.
I know what you are thinking. This is just a small paragraph but, hey, a par, pair, of any size and kind, when destroyed, is indicative of some kind of operational failure
Fifty thousand other bloggers will put up worthless drivel in the time it takes to rebuild that little paragraph. So, see, I am thinking of you, protecting you, in my effort to get ME and MY conclusions on dangers out there before you are driven daft and driverless by drivel from other sources.
But that is not what I want to talk to you about.
I want to tell you about: CAMERAS, SURVEILLANCE, THE TRAIL YOU LEAVE, NOT JUST BEHIND YOU BUUUUUTTTTTTT IN FRONT OF YOU.
GOTTA PEA! WATCH MY SEAT!
OK, I am back and here's the dope. No, I don't mean dope. I hope the people with the power to take you away and do things didn't hear that. When I say dope, I mean info, story, details.
I was the original "right on red" fan. A California fan. All good ideas came out of California. These were the extraordinary people. They came from everywhere else. Not for welfare. Not for free education. (The rest of the country did not have free first two years of college in the old days.) These were pioneers, frontier people, new idea people. Ideas that worked.
Right on red. What a concept! How could you improve on that. What a time saver!
And then the price on video cameras came down.
Until they did, the rare case where a vehicle intersecting a boulevard, with straight across intent, in the late night hours, traffic signal red, HAD a PROBLEM. The same problem the right turn people had had before "right on red." THEY WAIT! The full three minutes or five or whatever the length of time in which they could have written a blog article.
Unless, unless, unless that driver was fortunate enough to have beneath the vehicle a buried plate sensitive to the pressure of things as heavy as car.
In that rare case the wait was not long at all. Pressure was sensed. Sensing triggered a change in signal light color. Driver crossed the boulevard and went on with life.
Ah what could be better than "right on red?" (I am surprised politicians never picked up on that phrase.)
What could be better than "right on red" was "straight ahead on green, a green that arrived before the vehicle even came to a complete stop."
Good idea but, Zeus, digging up that asphalt, installing sensor plates, running sensor lines - wow, labor intensive and time consuming, and costly stuff!
The price of video cameras came down.
Government combines must have stock in video cameras big time.
But a good idea IS, after all corruption has gone to bed, a good idea.
The camera, like the human eye, had a brain behind it. A brain with time enough to do a lot of things with the information being seen out there in reel-ality.
- match the time at fifty feet away with the time at ten feet away with a red signal
- match the time at fifty feet away with the time at ten feet away with a GREEN signal
- SO MUCH FOR SPEEDERS AND SIGNAL RUNNERS
- capture a license plate number
- hand it off to central info system
- wait
- central info system puts together all available info about that vehicle
- if any irregularities are encountered, pass the information off to the people who have the power to do something about those irregularities - orrrrr just wait and watch
- maybe move the process of information on that vehicle to code teal, or mauve, or firebrick, or Hell forbid, ORANGE
That's not all! The vehicle has a driver. But first, an aside, Why do we change verbiage for the situation? Why am I saying 'vehicle' instead of auto or car or truck? To cover all bets about what that thing is on wheels? I don't think so but later for that. THE DRIVER.
- time lots of time - even without sequential time IT (not i-t meaning the word 'it' but IT, the abbreviation for Information Technology) has a little thing up its sleeve called concurrency, which is a bit like doing several things at once
- while getting the license plate number, observing the beautiful form and comeliness of that person walking along the sidewalk, and scoping out the donut shop window for how many glazed donuts are left in the counter case (more on that later), the camera collects a few miles of footage on the driver: seatbelt? phone? (more on that later) smoker? (more on that later) expressions? (more on that later)
- get a clear photo and pass it to info central (IC)
- pass all driver info collected in the previous button to IC
- IC software (all is software) passes the pic for identity processing
- is the driver the owner?
- is the driver on the owner's insurance? (SURE THEY CAN)
- is the driver not found by any software application to be related to this 'vehicle'?
- if yes, run history on driver and determine all possible scenarios and pass of as appropriate
- lots of possibilities? yep. stolen car (oops, I mean vehicle), otherwise wanted by the people with the power to do things to, I mean about, people like that?
- software determine through subsystems this driver should be somewhere else at the moment??
- for example - checking on her husband whom another camera has reported seeing playing hugabunch near the corner of Union and Congress.
- and, as Kurt Vonnegut was so fond of saying, AND SO ON
Let me leave you with this thought. I HAVE NOT EVEN OPENED THE DOOR ON POSSIBILITIES. OK. JUST ENOUGH TO PEEK.
We simple must devote some consideration along the way to time perception. For now let's just say this. Do you know how they say that in a moment of crisis or whatever, your entire life passes before your eyes (and I assume the other four senses but we're hung up on eyes)???
How can that be your whole life flashing by in a flash? Well, as Einstein would probably say, "IT IS RELATIVE." Not 'IT" as in Information Technology but 'IT' as in the antecedent, "time." Computer chips operate in the realm of nanoseconds. Something like this.
If a nanosecond were an inch you could go around the world twice in three seconds.
So while the software on a chip (a brain) behind a traffic signal camera (the eye) is waiting for the camera to deliver a frame (it does, say, 25 in a second) the software routine can get up, stretch, go to the toilet for a 1 and a 2, brush the teeth, shave, order pizza, shower, put on fresh clothes, taking time for all the socially important things like fashion, matching color, fit considering the run amok diet, walk around the block, come back, collect the frame of footage (wow, look at the size of that steering wheel hand's little pinky diamond), thank the camera and take a nap while waiting for the next frame. Lots of time! (to use a cliche brings time and space together)
I do not mean to be hard to get but if you want podcasts of some of these articles, if you want material that expounds on these ideas, if you want the book, "HI, I AM BOO, OOPS DID I SCARE YOU" then put in a comment about that. Put in a comment on anything relevant to this article, relative to me, or my donut recipe, or if you or your organization need any kind of training in feeling more insecure in general or going outside specifically, comments. I love comments and categorizing them if you get my grift, I mean drift.
Boo Spinner here. Oops, did I scare you?
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