What do Truckers Want?

I acualy use google earth. Not the web based one, but the installed version. When you zoom down to street view it will show elevation differences.

 

Yeah, there's street view. Doesn't have every place yet, but if it's not in street view, then it's probably out in the middle of nowhere and it'd be hard to miss anyways.

Also for the GPS's like Rand McNally, something really simple. Like having the S, M, L, XL for parking categories next to the truck stop listing so I could tell how big it is.

 

Green stuff.

Lots and lots of spendable green stuff.

 

say 6 figure green stuff a year

 

I think that in very few days ahead the truck is having all the features which normally find in the passenger car. And truck driver job is become more and more popular and less tedious as compare to the previous one.

 

I would like a GPS device that also doubles as a recording dash cam. Would also be great if I could add multiple cameras for the mirrors or some kind of side view.

Then I would plaster notices all over the outside of my truck "Drive carefully, you're on camera" or "For your safety, my camera is documenting your driving abilities" or "I film - You drive" or "digital driver discrepancy device recorder on board".

 

Hmm. Well, I have finished development on several solutions like you describe, but they are not built into a GPS navigation device. I have not found such a device that has the processing power and the storage capability to do both navigation and video recording in one box.

 

Well, the Lowrance iWay 500c has an extra 10gigs partitioned for music files. Would something like that work?

EDIT: I see those units are now discontinued... oh well

 

And it also did not have multiple video inputs and an on-board video recording application.

The only way to put it on one device that I can think of is to use a powerful laptop or an iPad with a DVR application installed and multiple (splitter?) video inputs and a CoPilot Truck GPS installed. Other than that possibility, it is 2 boxes - one for cameras and one for GPS navigation.

 

how is it thAT im seeing cars and buses with built in wifi but trucks dont have wouldnt be possible since we have qualcom and peoplnet onboard