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Electronic Lifeguard Saves First Life
from the good-news dept
To be honest, it's a bit surprising that some local community pools would shell out on an expensive electronic pool monitoring system, but it seems like a worthwhile decision after one of these systems helped save a drowning girl who blacked out in the deep end and sank to the bottom. If you didn't know these systems existed (I certainly didn't), they use a series of cameras to try to note activities associated with drowning and quickly set off an alarm for a lifeguard to respond -- and the system worked perfectly. It's nice to say that about technology every once in a while.
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Good thing
Good thing the system was maintained. Some people would let maintenance slip after a couple years of not being useful.
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Or Not
Lets just hope the lifeguards don't start relying on these things.
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Now Use Them for Freshmen
At this time of the year, college towns are being flooded with clueless freshmen who run out into the middle of traffic. I almost hit 3 of them an hour ago, who just suddenly walked into the street from behind a parked car.
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