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How Real-time Mapping App Changes The Way You Drive in India
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Imagine taking your grandparents on a ride in your new car, and Wham! They bumped their head on the car’s roof because you jumped a nasty bump.  Sadly, this is a far too common occurrence on our roads. Whether you are driving a car or on a bicycle, potholes on your route can be anywhere […]

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“Set it up before you get in the car and I start driving”, said my dad as I struggled to open the stiff plastic flap with my tiny fingers on his Pocket PC to plug in the GPS aerial. We didn’t need the maps. This was our annual trip to my maternal grandparents’ place and […]

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Of the time I have spent traversing our road networks, a major fraction has been on two wheels. To me, cars have been little more than a tool to serve a function, motorcycles have been more. More than a decade and almost 80K kms later, there is still a charm that pulls me back to […]

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We started our journey with Intents Mobi with the objective to save lives on the road. From our day to day life, to the products we have been working on, road safety has been the common denominator. There are close to 5,00,000 accidents on Indian roads, leading to almost 1,50,000 fatalities, every year. That is […]

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Wikipedia describes speed bumps as “Traffic calming devices that use vertical deflection to slow motor-vehicle traffic in order to improve safety conditions.” However, to many of us, this statement might sound a bit ironic. In all the time we have been driving, I am sure most of us would have faced moments of panic when […]

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