Real Time GPS Traffic Displays Help Avoid Traffic
by Tyler Knott Gregson | February 12th, 2008Every single year that goes by, more and more people are born. While all these births are taking place, people are growing up, growing older, getting into cars and congesting the crap out of American highways. Point is, we’re all getting a heck of a lot more mobile, but how mobile we can be also depends a lot on how much we can avoid the pitfalls of all these new people…namely, Traffic.
I just read an awesome article about two giants teaming up to hopefully do something about just this problem. According to the article, Nokia and UC Berkeley are teaming up to test real-time GPS traffic monitoring to see if the active displaying of where the traffic is, can help people avoid it, and thereby reduce it in general. Basically what they found out was, if as little as 5% of drivers contributed location data from their cars, the entire thing would be a success and this monitoring could be extremely effective on any particular highway. Groovy.
So what do we need to do to make this happen? What do we need to do to get as many cars as possible equipped with this so all of us can eventually completely avoid traffic whenever possible? You’d think with all the advances in modern technology we’ve already enjoyed, we’d be able to completely avoid traffic altogether. Guess not, but hey, how awesome is it to have Hannah Montana delivered to every possible mobile device?! Yeah, no.
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