While stuck in traffic we were discussing internet in the car and I got an idea: what if the license plate of each car was also a Twitter account? So @NL45-FDX-2 for instance, it should be unique if you prefix the country code.<p>But I didn't come up with that many ideas, other then: send traffic information to car, warn driver about speeding, send driver a confirmation of a ticket (after driving through red or too fast), flirt with girl in other lane.<p>Any other ideas (maybe involving geolocation) or is this just silly?
Sounds like a great idea, but why limit to twitter- and you will probably run into some cases where usernames are already taken. Why not just create a site to report nuts drivers by license number. Then parents, etc. could look on it for their license number to see what their kids are up to. This would be a lot easier than the solutions that involve additions to cars to track their children. Then hook it up to twitter, facebook, etc. Of course, there are probably already sites that do this, but maybe you could do it better.
There is already a startup that does this: <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2010/09/15/demo-bump-social-network-car-license-plates/" rel="nofollow">http://venturebeat.com/2010/09/15/demo-bump-social-network-c...</a>