The BBC is reporting that Westminster Council is installing sensors in the road, so that drivers can use a smartphone app to go to the nearest free space.
How do you use the smartphone, whilst you are driving?
August 17, 2012 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | Cars, Driving, Parking, Phones
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What this blog will eventually be about I do not know.
But it will be about how I’m coping with the loss of my wife and son to cancer in recent years and how I manage with being a coeliac and recovering from a stroke. It will be about travel, sport, engineering, food, art, computers, large projects and London, that are some of the passions that fill my life.
And hopefully, it will get rid of the lonely times, from which I still suffer.
Why Anonymous? That’s how you feel at times.
The Anonymous Widower
via Bluetooth. my phone rings, I push a button on steering wheel with my thumb, and the voice comes over the speakers. Then becomes no different from hlding a conversation with a passenger. If I want to make a call, i press the button and say who I want to call and it does it. There are a lot more things I can do, but I am waiting for daughter to teach me how, and this new car is the first one I have had Bluetooth in
Comment by Liz P | August 17, 2012 |
Bluetooth works simple things like calls, but how does it do text and show maps? Shopping on the bus is so easy anyway. Coming home from Oxford Street John Lewis, I walk out the front and get a 73 bus to just round the corner. A taxi is only £15, if I don’t want to walk with large packages.
But as last night, I generally go to places which are one bus route or a simple bus/tube route away. Real Londoners use the buses rather than the tube, especially, when the stops are outside at both ends.
The talk on buses is better if you sit up front at the top or in the face-to-face seats below. Someone will usually start a conversation, often for the silliest of reasons. A couple of months ago, I was sitting at the back on the lower deck and the bus lurched, delivering a largish Muslim woman in correct attire over myself and the young black girl next to me. Lots of apologies all round and we talked all the way home, mostly about widowhood.
Comment by AnonW | August 17, 2012 |
I dont know enough about bluetooth to answer that, sorry. Presume it is with the speech part of it – Siri or whatever.
Buses are good for people who can walk. Which I cant very well. I am working towards being able to push my own wheelchair though.
Comment by Liz P | August 17, 2012 |
All buses in London have wheelchair ramps directly into the wheelchair space from under the middle door. But there are few places outside London that have proper wheelchair ramps, despite a law coming in soon.
The New Bus for London is similar, but is very good for those on sticks, as it has a totally flat floor inside with no steps at all.
Comment by AnonW | August 17, 2012 |