By David Shamah
Traffilog believes that the best way to save gas – not to mention drivers’ lives, as well as cut down on vehicle maintenance costs – is to keep as close an eye on vehicles, while they’re out in the field. The Traffilog system features GPS, G sensors, and ECM systems that interface with the vehicles systems, reporting everything that happens back to an administrative server. From there, there, the information makes its way through filters and databases, analyzed for the relevant details needed by clients – who then get informed by e-mail, a Web interface, or SMS.
By David Shamah
What do you do if you want to buy something from a store where they don’t take credit cards?
Pay cash, of course!
Okay, but what if you want to buy something really big – say, a car – and the person you’re buying it from doesn’t trust banks; no checks accepted, no credit cards, no nothing, Just plain old cash. And they live in a bad neighborhood – which makes you very nervous about shlepping around big amounts of cash. Now what?
The scenario I’ve just described is not some from the anti-bank gold bug Luddite playbook, but a reasonably realistic description [...]
