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staycomp
 United Kingdom
Automatic pothole reporting Printer Friendly Version
These days high end cars have GPS, dashcams/reversing cameras and SIM cards (cellular connectivity). (In the UK at least) there are websites where you can report pothole locations, so that the authorities can direct their road repair teams.
Now, with nothing more than a sensor on the car's suspension and some control module, the car should be able to detect when it hits a pothole. When this happens, the GPS location is noted, a suitable still frame from the dashcam or reversing camera video feed is retrieved, this gets overlaid with a mark indicating where the pothole should be seen (calculated from the camera angle, car speed, distance traveled and steering angle). Also, the car's compass bearing is recorded. All of this gets submitted to the appropriate pothole reporting website.
Perhaps, to avoid overwhelming the local authority's websites, each motor manufacturer should collate the reports, and only submit to the website when a certain number of hits are reported.
While this has merit in all vehicles, it may be more desirable in self-driving cars where the driver is less likely to pay attention to the exact location of the pothole.
Reward: As this idea is unlikely to make money for motor manufacturers, it would be somewhat cheeky to ask for the first car fitted with such a system. So, just be generous!
 

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mtd28student
 New Zealand
Car Pillows Printer Friendly Version
Have you ever been a passanger in a car and wanted to have a sleep. If you take a pillow and lean it against the window it always ends up bunched up and your head ends up hitting the window. I think that if you put plungers on the pillow (so that it would stick to the window) it would help prolong the sliding down of it, meaning that you would get a longer sleep.
A very simple idea, not sure of the market though. :)
Reward: long lenghty sleeps
 

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pranshu
 India
All-purpose bikers helmet Printer Friendly Version
A helmet where the front hood will be used as a partial display. Various features include place recognition using google services and additional features like the use of a laser range finder. The distance of the vehicle/obstacle ahead will be determined, speakers inside the helmet will read out the various information with voice recognition calls. Can be made connecting the phone to the helmet. The gps of the phone will be used to tell the location of the rider and the map will be displayed on the hood to follow directions. The phone will be charged using a small flexible solar panel on the top of the helmet so that the battery doesn't die out. A secondary battery for the sake of backup is also there.

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