I was going to say also that Google Maps is a free app.


Pdxrailtransit Wrote:
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> Earwig Wrote:
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> > Howard Wrote:
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> > > Google app to warn drivers about railroad
> > > crossings
> > >
> > > FacebookTwitter
> > >
> > > MARK J. TERRILL / ASSOCIATED PRESS
> > >
> > > Police officers stand near a Metrolink train
> > that
> > > hit a truck in February in Oxnard. 
> > >
> > > BY WHIP VILLARREAL
> > >
> > > June 29, 2015, 2:46 p.m.
> > >
> > > Google has agreed to add audio and visual
> > alerts
> > > in its navigation app to warn drivers about
> > > railroad crossings.
> > >
> > > Google is partnering with the Federal
> Railroad
> > > Administration after deaths at railroad
> > crossings
> > > jumped last year. The number of deaths had
> been
> > > steadily declining over the past decade until
> > > spiking 9% in 2014, according to the agency,
> > which
> > > oversees the nation’s railroads.
> > >
> > > California accounted for 33 of the 270 deaths
> > from
> > > train-on-vehicle collisions in 2014.The
> > railroad
> > > agency is also in talks with other tech
> > companies,
> > > including Apple, TomTom and MapQuest, to
> > integrate
> > > warnings into navigation apps.
> > >
> > > “Google was the first to say that they would
> go
> > > ahead and integrate the data. But we have had
> > > great conversations with other companies,”
> said
> > > Sarah Feinberg, acting administrator of the
> > > Federal Railroad Administration. “No one has
> > told
> > > us that they are uninterested.”
> > >
> > > Google said it doesn’t have a timeline for
> when
> > > the integration of audio and visual alerts
> for
> > > railroad crossings will be completed.
> > Meanwhile,
> > > the company has agreed to update its maps
> with
> > > 250,000 public and private crossing
> locations.
> >
> > Well, cool.... maybe someday Google will find a
> > way to put their fones in the hands of low
> level
> > income citizens.
> > Until then, guess I will still rely on my
> > eyeballs.
>
> Earwig,
>
> You don't need a high end smartphone to run
> Android. Maybe it will have a small screen, but
> the apps will work fine.
>
> PDX