Car Error Feedback
With most newer cars now coming with digital dashboards, there’s an opportunity to ditch the red engine light and help drivers know what’s going on. I know next to nothing about computerized autos but I’m sure there can be a way to make potential auto issues more well-known and user friendly. Naturally, there would be some industry resistance since there’s plenty of crooks in the mechanic world who want to keep drivers dumb and ripe for exploitation.
Live Venue Sound
An app to listen to live music while you’re at the actual event. Passwords to the venue’s wifi would be given with the tickets, and the soundboard would broadcast the event on their wifi over the app. Live sound is notoriously tricky to make it sound clear, especially with rock and metal bands turning things into mud. Getting the “live music sound” to sound right via the app will also be tricky but it may provide a better experience. Would not include vape odor simulation, but Drunk Guy Booze Spilling AR is within scope.
Fictional Omniverse Registry
A running registry of all fictional universes, along the lines of Wikipedia. Really a website more than an app. Anyone with access can register any fictional universe. All entries would be assigned a system-specific number or code, plus a human-readable/humorous name, something like: “Universe CZF-1483, aka: Universe FartCompetitionTrophy.” Might also be good for providing fictional timelines, and how they relate to other universes: whether two or more fictional universes could coexist without blowing up the canon, or keeping tracking of different canons of the same set of characters, as with larger brands like Marvel, or keeping track of where universes break off into different timelines because of in-story time travel events (like the Crisis on Infinite Earths or Age of Apocalypse comic storylines). Optimal adoption metric means it can act as a single source of truth for nitpicking fiction dorks to reference.
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Minor point: It’s the manufacturers who try to keep car owners in the dark. The only reason we know anything at all is because a handful of engineers and mechanics have leaked or reverse engineered a lot of technical details. There is at least one cellphone app that can read the error codes (OBD) from some few cars.
Thanks for the clarification. I may have meant the manufacturers but it came out the fingertips wrong. I wrote this some time ago and I don’t remember my thought process here.
I admit the live concert venue app is confusing me. You’d be at the event, but listening to the music on an app?
Sorry, I must’ve missed your comment, Jill.
The idea is that the app would play whatever is being performed on stage, through earbuds, directly from the mixing board instead of the house speakers. Once sound leaves speakers, you pretty much have no control over it, but if it’s directly from the board, you can make it sound however you want. In larger venues there’s a benefit to this because you can get more clarity from the direct line sound than with physical speakers. And with modern software it’s easy to make it “sound” like live music (if you ever listen to live recordings, it sounds “live” but not like you’re actually at the venue so much).