[telecuda]

A $30,000 car today often has a far better screen/user experience than a $300,000 boat. iPad/tablet apps for boaters attached to mounts are common, though lack communication with the boat's sensors (without something like Signal K), and are hard to see in full sun. Compound that with the Coast Guard being a defense agency where getting new data typres in and out is "a process."

Shameless but relevant plug -- I was annoyed hearing radio traffic of boaters trying to share their location with the Coast Guard, so I built a free tool for them (i911) that allows USCG to text the boater a link to share their location. The vast majority of distress calls are made within cell phone range (<15 miles from shore), so tapping that link isn't as much of an issue as you would think it is. It was the fastest tech to graduate from their R&D site to nationwide sector adoption.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF1pi2-ygXU

Excited to dig into Signal K to see if something there can help improve that response even further.