SMS to save the day

Car theft and bus robberies are not shocking to hear from the daily news, but the trauma and threat to life and property it brings to an individual who is actually involved in the incident is dreadful. While watching the news the other night, I chanced upon an invention by one of the members of the Filipino Inventors Society to address such incidents using SMS to alert the authorities of an ongoing crime. The driver of either the bus or the car presses a button installed on the vehicle which, in turn, sends an SMS to the police informing them of the location and vehicle used in order to help them get to the scene of the crime more promptly. This is one great example of Filipino ingenuity and technology working hand-in-hand to produce a gadget that can benefit the greater majority and help address the current problems in society. Now, if only text messages can be relied on 100 percent of the time to NOT be delayed and authorities be as reliable as the sun rising in the east in the morning.