Where's the Snow Plow?
By
Bob Brewin
That's been a hot question and topic of conversation in the Washington area for the past week, and in Howard County, Md., the answer to that question is easy thanks to GPS technology.
That's been a hot question and topic of conversation in the Washington area for the past week, and in Howard County, Md., the answer to that question is easy thanks to GPS technology.
All 120 of the county's plows are equipped with GPS receivers that broadcast the trucks' positions and routes plowed onto a nifty graphic on the county's Web site.
Of course, the plows can do nothing about the snow removal problem, which could be solved by a GPS-equipped Japanese snow-eating robot, which compresses snow into bricks and then excretes them out its backend.
Alas, this gizmo does not seem to have moved beyond the prototype stage.