I decided today to try and build out a simulated version of an idea using Firebase Studio. It was an extremely smooth process.
The idea is that emergency vehicles, police vehicles, and self-driving cars could/should have a fast and simple way of communicating with other vehicles and pedestrians. LED signs exist but are hard to program (as I understand it) and can’t really be programmed on-the-fly (at least by humans).
I wanted to simulate what this might be like for a human driver and built out a simulator using Firebase Studio: https://studio--led-caption-creator.us-central1.hosted.app/
You press a button, tell it what you want the sign to say, and it updates the “LED sign” almost instantly. Curious what people think! It’s pretty neat to be able to quickly prototype an idea and see that it’s at least in part feasible.
