Showing posts with label safety. Show all posts
Showing posts with label safety. Show all posts

Friday, August 9, 2019

Hormonal Driving in Traffic

Just another wacky working hypothesis: Is it possible to invent a Breathalyzer that measures hormone levels such as Oxytocin, Adrenaline, Testosterone and Cortisol? How do these hormones affect behavior in public, and especially while driving in traffic?
After briefly reading articles about hormones, I came up with this.
The sexuality thing is unrelated.
I'm not even sure if these notes are accurate, these are just hashed out for later focus so I don't forget.

By measuring hormones and neurotransmitter chemicals, it may be possible to deliver a psychological driving risk assessment. A very large survey of samples from accidents must be collected anonymously, only coded test results with related accident information is necessary.

Hey, this might already exist, especially for people who drive trucks for a company.
Source: Quantifying hormones in exhaled breath for physiological assessment of large whales at sea

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Abject Consumerism

What are things most consumers don't think about most of the time?
  • The working conditions of the laborers who cultivate, raise, mine, refine, forge, build, transport, display, advertise and sell, the goods consumers want.
    • Wages
    • Benefits
    • Hours per shift, week, month or pay period.
    • Physical safety standards
    • Discrimination, favoritism, cronyism, sexual harassment.
  • The impact on the environment where the raw materials are extracted.
    • Erosion, flooding, fertilizer runoff, animal feces runoff, chemical contamination, air pollution, adjacent property values, 
  • The waste generated by what is left over after the goods are consumed.
    • Plastic in the oceans and landfills. chemicals seeping into rivers, aquifers and water tables.
  • The sustainability of the resources from which the goods derive.
    • Over-fishing depleted the main source of food in Somalia, leaving many with no choice but to become pirates.
    • Deforestation of the Amazon and Canada.
    • Depletion of soil nutrients.
    • Drying up water reservoirs and rivers.