How to drive in the winter via an iPhone

Man, let’s see 35+ hours in my car, 34.9 of them having been spent dealing with snow or blowing snow of some sort and the last 5 hours of the trip spent in Buffalo, NY. The danger zone of all danger zones for winter weather. I made it, no trips in the ditch, but can’t speak for many of my fellow travellers. Majority of whom that had a southern state license plate, got to experience the awesomeness of a tow truck ride.

Driving was pretty boring. Seeing a car off the road next to each mile-marker sign, kept it interesting. I snapped a few pics from my iPhone on the way. Bet you didn’t know it could be a useful driving tool? You see, when the wind blows really hard, you get a “whiteout” and can’t see even the hood of your car.

When traveling at 50+ mph and suddenly going blind, it easily causes accidents when people hit the brakes, because they are scared and suddenly can’t see the road. Well the iphone is handy-dandy road finder! Not the gps part, but the camera part. I turned on the camera and it could ‘see’ the road, weird, yes in a way. Let me explain, see the iphone could pick up detail that my eyes couldn’t see, the road would show up on the iphone, but not with my own eyes. Hence I just held it on top of the steering wheel and when things went pure white, magically could reference the iphone and make sure I was going in a straight line and not heading for a snow bank! It took some practice because driving a car using a 3.5 inch screen is a little tough!

See how you can see the road and the detail in the picture? Well, with me eyes it was just pure white!

Remnants of a 10 car pile-up. Maybe they should advertise the iphone’s winter driving capabilities?

Yup, they coulda used an iphone.

Next, maybe I’ll figure how to get it so the steering of the car is controlled via tilting the iphone and then it will be a breeze to get home in the snow, and fun too!

Time to go hit the trails on the xc skis