Posted on 08/09/2014 4:59:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
Even 911 was pretty new and only used for real emergencies.
What did people do when McDonalds ran out of McNuggets?
I kinda wish that the government DID NOT have a tracking device tethered to me...but maybe that’s just me.
—yep—that sounds about like “ assaults, rapes, etc., etc., against women increase by umpty hundred percent Super Bowl Day”——
Well remember thirty years ago there were approx. 75 million less people in the USA. Most areas didn't have a dedicated Emergency service except in large population centers. And lifeflight helos were mostly a dream.
Now with these expanded emergency services available to more and more areas and newer trauma protocols it is possible to save the lives of people who would've been deemed to0 far gone 30 years ago because a trauma center was too far away. Now it actually does make a difference if you shave 5 more minutes off of the time an ambulance or lifeflight can get to the patient. More times than not "time" is the difference in saving a trauma case's life. (My Mom was an EMT for 15 plus years...)
An argument for right to carry especially in dense cities.
I'd prefer one that only activated when you called 911. Otherwise, it ain't nobody's business but my own.
“I’d prefer one that only activated when you called 911. Otherwise, it ain’t nobody’s business but my own.”
They’d hit you up with the excuse (probably true too) that in many situations you can have cell phone coverage, but not GPS coverage.
I’d be happy with an “OFF” switch for GPS...but even then, how can one trust it, without removing the battery.
Anyone who uses 911 for something like that should be fined heavily financially
I was 4 wheeling in the San Isabel national forest a couple weeks ago. My Windows phone not only showed the “road” we were on, but the satellite view of the area. It was within 10 feet at all times. I had no idea that the trail had a name, or was on a map.
Just for fun, take a look at your cell phone bill and your land-line phone bill. Now, add up all the taxes you pay on those lines. It’s staggering. In my household I pay about $50 every month in federal and state taxes on just my phone lines!
How does one know the number could be more could be less.
But I do know that people who call for help in an emergency. They Do not a lot of times give good directions well hang up after saying I need help yell and scream at the dispatcher for not getting there fast enough.
While not listening while the dispatcher is trying find out where they are at.
Or say something like I live on the Smith farm every one knows where the smith farm is when a smith hasn’t live there for 30 years.
Or I live on River road when there are 3 of them in the area then hang up.
A good dispatcher well try very hard to get good directions but a lot of times the people who are calling in are not very help full.
As noted GPS is not the end all for locating a location.
Hard to pull that off in North Dakota. A satellite in space is usually closer and/or a better contact than the nearest tower, especially if you're on AT&T.
North Dakota is an exception...but I was thinking more about people in buildings or especially homes, since most are not hard-wired now.
Well you want all of those unproductive people to have phones don’t you?
It wouldn’t surprise me if there were that many and more. Here, many years ago, they changed all the rural route road to county number roads to accomodate the new 911 system. It made no sense since they are still arbituary numbered roads at the taxpayers’ expense. With the old rural route you knew which part of the county the emergency was in. The problem with the renamed 911 roads the ambulance may go to the opposite side of the county. If you call, you have to tell them you’re on CR 437 that is on the south side of the county off FM 8322 near the Shell station because CR 436 and CR 438 are on the north side of the county 45 miles away. It’s easier and more timely to take yourself to the ER especially if the hospital in the nearby county is closer. With 911 regulations, EMS can’t cross county lines so you must be taken to the hospital in your county which may be 45 minutes away rather than the one in the next county that’s only 5 minutes away.
Yeah no joke. You always had to indicate your location to get someone to come to you, that is nothing new.
Does the FCC think they can just mandate tighter location standards and the technology will magically appear on the FCC’s timetable? How arrogant and naive of them.
There are way more lives saved now because of cellphones. Thirty years ago you had to find a phone when something happened. Now somebody on the scene can probably communicate.
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