Ask HN: Urban Tech - Ideas to improve our cities

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11 years ago

I inspired by the article (linked at the end) talking about how technology is, and can change the way citizens interact with their cities. It really interested me, seemingly a lot of ideas should not be that hard to implement.

Public Safety: When I hear this term I think of mainly construction sites, traffic jams, etc. I was thinking, how can we integrate tech to alert users to changing conditions?

You know those alert signs? That display closings etc.? What if they were modified with a piece of hardware broadcasting its location to an API, and a correlating phone app using a push notification or voice alert to let the user know they are approaching. This could be applied to many things such as bike lanes, etc.

Thoughts? What are your ideas?

Article: http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/24/cities-take-lead-on-app-development/#tmhmdj:QzLJ

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