"There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - President Ronald Reagan.

Buy The Amazon Kindle Store Ebook Edition

Buy The Amazon Kindle Store Ebook Edition
Get the ebook edition here! (Click image.)

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Tokyo Taxi Cabs To Keep You From Losing Things; Quake Rattles Tokyo

Above, a taxi cab near Tokyo Station.  Photo by Armand Vaquer.

I've never lost anything in a taxi in Japan, but I did lose a cell phone (it fell off my belt) in a Los Angeles taxi.

Tokyo taxi cabs will be equipped to remedy such a situation soon.

The Wall Street Journal reported:
Many of us have experienced that sinking feeling of forgetting a phone, bag, wallet or other valuable possession in the back of a taxi. 
Japan, already home to some of the world’s most conscientious cabbies, wants to put an end to all that with a technological fix. 
Tokyo-based taxi Kokusai Motorcars Co. plans to equip its vehicles with a camera system that automatically detects when items are left behind. The system, co-developed with technology consultants Ideacross, uses four small cameras – two under the front seats, one on the ceiling, and one in the trunk – to record images of the back seat before and after a passenger enters the taxi. If a passenger leaves the car forgetting an item that wasn’t there before getting in, the system sounds an alarm.
This sounds like an excellent idea!

*******

Speaking of Japan, Tokyo was rattled by an earthquake about four hours ago.  

JapanToday reported:
TOKYO —A strong 6.5 magnitude earthquake hit eastern Japan on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but local authorities said there was no risk of a tsunami. 
The quake, measured at 6.9 by Japanese seismologists, was centered on a spot more than 600 kilometers south of Tokyo, the USGS said. 
The quake struck at 9:18 a.m. at a depth of 404 kilometers, the USGS said. It was felt in Miyagi, Fukushima, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa prefectures, as well as in Tokyo where it registered a 3.

No comments:

Search This Blog