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Article: Rancho Cucamonga inventor has device to warn drivers about emergency vehicles
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- Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
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- August 12, 2009
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RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Today's cars can do what yesterday's cars only
dreamed of - they can talk. What was once a futuristic concept is
now a feature.
Offering possibly the next big thing in automated voices for
automobiles is Blue Light Tronics with HEAARS: HiEarly Alert Audio
Response. At least that's what its inventor, Rancho Cucamonga
resident Bill Spann, hopes.
If Spann and his team at Blue Light can sell the idea to
automakers, he believes it will save lives and revolutionize public
response to emergency vehicles.
HEAARS is a computer chip fitted with specialized software about
the size of a quarter housed inside a sleek fin-shaped casing meant
to be installed on the outside of the ...