CLIPBOARD COMPUTER ACCIDENT DATA COLLECTION AND TRANSMISSION

THE PROPOSED EFFORT IS TO DEVELOP A COMBINED HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE SYSTEM BASED ON DATA'S CLIPBOARD COMPUTR. THE CLIP BOARD IS AN IBM PC COMPATIBLE PORTABLE COMPUTER WITH BASIC DIMENSIONS OF 7"X10"X1.5" AND A WEIGHT OF 4 POUNDS. IT CON-TAINS A HIGH RESOLUTION (640 X 200) GCA MONITOR WITH A TOUCHSCREEN FOR MENU RESPONSE ENTRY BY FINGERTIP. THE COMPUTER RUNS A 8 MHZ HAS 3 MB OF A MAIN MEMORY (COMBINED RAM AND ROMAND AND FULLY BATTERY OPERATED. THE PRODUCT WILL BE ENHANCED IN THE PROJECT BY POTENTIALLY INCREASING THE CPU TOAN 80286 AT 20 MHZ, 16 MB OF RAM, AUXILI- ARY POWER BY AUTO BATTERY OR WALL OUTLET, HANDHELD TEXT SCANNER, AND SCREEN GRABBLER TV CAMERA DIGITIZATION OF SCENES, AND INCORPORATION OF A N ON-BOARD CELLULAR OR GM RADIO PHONEAND MODEM. TAILORED SOFTWARE WILL BE DEVELOPED UTILIZING USER FRIENDLY POP-UP WINDOWS AND FULL GRAPHICS OF THE INTER-SECTION, VEHICLE, ETC, FOR ALLOWING SIMPLE MULTIPLE CHOICE INPUT OF DATA TO THE ACCIDENT REPORT DATABASE. THE SYSTEM SHOULD CUT THE TIME TO REDUCE ACCIDENT DATA FROM THE CURRENTFOUR TO NINE MONTHS TO TWO OR THREE DAYS.