The Car that Knows
The car would capture information from blood pressure monitors, activity monitors and glucose meters along with user-generated behavioral data to provide real-time health and wellness advice and monitoring, using the Healthrageous platform. The data received from the driver then are uploaded into Microsoft’s HealthVault cloud and transferred to Windows Azure. Users can access reports based on the data from their home computers.
Moreon the health-monitoring car.
This is fascinating!
I think this is part of a bigger revolution in form for collecting user data. For instance, Nike and Apple partnered to create Nike+, a combination attachment for your iPod that sends data to a signal receiver in your shoe.
Empowered consumers armed with information are the best antidote to a health crisis.
Might be good for some people.
Speeding at close to 80 mph, narrowly swerving to miss the Prius going 40 in the fast lane, trying to get in front of the idiot who cut you off at the last stop light. Is a car the best place to measure blood pressure and give wellness advice?
Glucose meters? Sounds like they want to monitor the driving of diabetics.
Mercedes already has some sort of activity monitor–a cup of coffee appears as a warning light if the car senses blunted reactions from the driver, however that is measured.
Just what we need, a bunch of equipment to push a bunch of useless Prius tainted blood pressure readings to an nice expensive database that, incidentally, can keep track of where your car is and how much you drive.
Next up, the car mileage tax is just the thing to cure the federal deficit…