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The Gumball Rally
1976 · Film · 105 min
Directed by Charles Bail
A group of people from different backgrounds have one thing in common: when they hear the world "gumball" whispered by one of the others, they know that it's time for the Gumball Rally: a no-holds barred, secret, winner-take-all rally across the USA.
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The Gumball Rally (1976) was an earlier and better movie than The Canonball Run (1981). At least better to this pre-teen. We would set the alarm to watch it in the wee hours of the morning on the super-late show, before video stores. I still think of the race as the Gumball Rally, and think of the Canonball Run movie as a ripoff/remake.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074597
In addition to The Cannonball Run movie, there's also a very enjoyable The Gumball Rally -
https://www.imdb.com/video/vi508673817
It's one of my all time favourite movies actually. Highly recommended.
For anyone who is trying to understand what the Cannonball Run is all about and resorts to some of the movies inspired by it, the reference movie is "The Gumball Rally". The actual "Cannonball Run" movies with a laundry list of "stars" were, frankly, not so great.
Integrate it with your speedometer, look ahead on your GPS route, factor in time of day vs. likelihood of presence of law enforcement, take into account accident data and risk based on location and time of day, and rather than a HUD, simply have an ambient dash light that boils it all down and glows related to your risk. Integrate GPS+radar detector+Whispernet (real-time wardriving for speed traps).
I'm sure with the radar detector this would already break laws in about 30 states, but the core idea still would be viable if all you did was integrate crash data to alert people to risks in areas where their perception of risk was off.
If they remake the movie "The Gumball Rally" again in a few years, I'd expect to see this device featured by one of the teams.