At the recent StartupWeekend Lancaster, our team got 2nd place with an idea I hatched after recently getting involved with crowdsourcing and being entirely disappointed with the algorithm used on existing sites.  Apparently, they are not accountable to their customers, and they are short sighted in thinking that keeping them within their protected environment and thereby keeping their percentage of the transaction is their most important priority.  It is not.  It is a limiting arrangement.  A model destined for failure, with no possible exception.  I’m going to prove it.  I’ll be chiming back in here to provide a video explanation, since the pitch at startup weekend got the last 15 seconds cut off, and the video quality was poor.

Oh, and yes, within the month, another StartupWeekend, another killer to be unleashed.

This is just ridiculous.  It is 2013, and we have bluetooth and mp3 and thermostats in our vehicles now, but if you’re foot is a little heavy and you aren’t paying attention for a moment on the highway, oops; you can easily wind up over the speed limit and get yourself into some trouble.  Tonight I thought once again of a gripe I’ve had for some time.  Why can’t I just set a max speed in my car when I’m on the highway.  I can engage a cruise control, but why can’t I just dial in a maximum speed and take comfort in knowing that I will never again go over 73, for instance, unless of course I temporarily disengage such a device and just put the pedal down.  🙂 Not to mention the benefit for someone who let’s their kid take the car out.  You could also limit the acceleration.  Yeah, these are no brainers that should already have been in play 10 years ago.  It should be a standard issue item in all cars.  It should be required by a government claiming to care about our safety.  Ridiculous.