A new smartphone app not only tests your blood alcohol level, it will also call a cab if it’s too high.
Ok, but if it’s too low, can it order a drink for you?
A new smartphone app not only tests your blood alcohol level, it will also call a cab if it’s too high.
Ok, but if it’s too low, can it order a drink for you?
I wonder how it selects which cab company to call. And how it communicates with the cab company.
If user input is needed for both of these, the story might just as well read “It can call your barber and cancel your appointment for the next day, it can call a priest; it can make airplane reservations, and it can call your significant other to let them know you’ll be late.”
If user input is not needed, is the intoxicated person legally obligated to pay for a cab he (or she) didn’t call?
And how does it intend to pay for the cab, since you blew your roll at the bar? Credit card? Most car services of my acquaintance would drop you off even farther from home if you tried to give them a credit card.
How is a phone yelling at you, “You’re a Cab”, doing any good when your drunk?
it will call a cab? what if i prefer a nice chianti?
The thing uses a “breathometer” plugged into the headphone jack. It would be better if just pricked your hand and drew blood. That way, you could throw the bloody thing against the wall and break it for good. (At which point, you could order another drink without being bothered.)