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If you answered yes to both questions, chances are you’re feeling relatively isolated from the economic pressures of the recession. Congratulations! Now go treat yourself to one of these iPhone applications compiled by CarType. Thanks to the power of Steve Jobs you can now shop for car insurance, look up the lowest gas prices in town, receive RSS updates on cars for sale, receive press releases from MINI, VW and Mercedes Benz, calculate your mileage, look up EPA ratings, receive traffic alerts in a number of countries, and play a plethora of time-wasting games all from your phone. Delphi’s James Bond-like bluetooth control for complete vehicle systems (first teased a year ago) is, sadly, still not available on the consumer market.
Hopefully people do not use their car & iphone at the same time.
I’m an assistant principal/ MATH in a PUBLIC SCHOOL.
My job is safer than safe.
#1 Public Schools are basically daycare centers now and the schools – regardless the budget cuts will NEVER CLOSE. They refuse to close even when there is a goddamn blizzard.
#2 Teachers get full healthcare and so do admins. You can’t beat that with a stick.
#3 AP salary is above $90,000 and Principal is above $100,000 (my principal is at $130K a year.
Starting Teacher salary is $47,000
Starting Teacher w/ Masters = $56,000
The ONLY WAYS POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO LOSE YOUR JOB IF YOU ARE A MATH, SCIENCE, or ENGLISH AS SECOND LANGUAGE teacher/AP or Guidance staff is if you
#1 Commit a felony (murder, rape, etc)
#2 date one of the kids
or.
#3 give one of the kids a beatin’ (even if they deserved it)
WE GET a load of VACATIONS
Thanksgiving
Jewish Holidays
December 24 – January 5th
February 13 – February 23
April (Spring Break)
and of course THE ENTIRE SUMMER.
If you want to work Summers – that’s an extra $5000 for your pockets – its your choice.
So besides the fact that I have a bulletproof job and I’m driving an S550 and YES – i have an iPhone I am so happy that I ignored my friends and family who suggested I be a computer tech, or continue my flying lessons and be a commercial pilot.
At the end of the day – I’m doing a great thing – helping children learn but, fortunately, I’m not busting my ass to do it.
Pay attention to the last sentence. There is nothing iPhone about this. He says “We are accessing this through the Safari browser”.
That means that any computer with a web browser can get the same thing.
It also means… so can a hacker.
It also means that your car is broadcasting information to a web server over some sort of comm system. Big brother?
There are two ways to do this.
(1) Keep it local. The car has a web server and a WiFi Access point. This means you have to be within radio range of the WiFi AP.
(2) Stream to central server (via OnStar network?). That means as long you can get on the Internet, you can get to this page, from anywhere.
Either way, it sounds like something that is just begging to be hacked.
You can blog about cars on ttac.com while driving your car with your iPhone too.
Flashpoint –
Good lord, where do you teach? Starting teacher salary here is closer to $30K, and a masters only bags an extra couple grand. Also, what’s up with the bizarre Feb. 13 – 23 break?
One of the reasons I left the school system to start slinging cars was the horrible pay (teachers with 15 years experience aren’t even making 56K). If I would be tempted to bail myself out of the auto industry.
More on-topic – sounds like a cool iPhone app. Also, having recently gotten to pair a customer’s iPhone with the Ford Sync system, I have to give kudos to Apple for making the thing somewhat standards compliant. Smartphones are always a crapshoot to get all of the features working smoothing with sync, Palm units being about the worst, but the iPhone was smooth sailing all the way.
Nullomodo
NYC !
http://www.nycenet.edu
We get paid more than most places in the country because our living costs are much higher.
This job’s unions have worked the system to ensure a teacher with 2 kids at home would be able to support herself…
for a bachelor like me – this job is butter.
Since we’re bragging about secure high-paying education jobs and all… My wife has taught in DC public schools for 7 years (ESL) and just got her national board certification on the first attempt.She holds 2 masters degrees (Ed. & Labor Relations) I think it’s safe to say she is one of the better teachers in the system.
She and her co-workers generally agree (and have loads of horror stories illustrating) that a school’s administration is usually the least competent aspect of a school body and often is what keeps teachers from doing their best job. Usually it’s by insisting that teachers do their job the way the admin wants them to, by using X system or method rather than how that teacher does it best. The administration feels like their oh-so-bright ideas will do the trick and feel like they are contributing, never mind that most of them have next to zero experience as a teacher or any instinct on what the students need.
Of course, maybe that’s just isolated to DC…
Robstar :
January 30th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Hopefully people do not use their car & iphone at the same time.
Thanks for the public service announcement… (sigh)
Anyway… the iPhone is amazing. Besides being a phone, it syncs with multiple email accounts, my address book, calendar, photo library, web bookmarks, offers a full web browser, tons of utilities (via the Apple Ap Store), GPS maps (shows current traffic conditions and routes via Google Maps including to search for businesses), games, iPod/ video iPod that plugs into my vehicles, and not to mention that it also controls my Apple TV via WiFi.
It is a most amazing piece of technology! I just look forward to when I can start a car with it, and even check in with the computer on whatever codes it throws. Now if only I could through my iPhone tell my daily driver to drive me to work while I sleep in the back seat… now that would be cool!
There was a bit of conflicting information in that video. First he says they’re using bluetooth. Later he says they’re accessing everything from the Safari web browser. Given the (artificial) capability limits placed on the iPhone, it has to be one or the other. Safari seems like a much more likely candidate than Bluetooth (“without modification”), albeit likely not nearly as secure. So, which is it?