Computing a High-Tech Way Around Traffic Jams ; Project May Help Drivers Nationwide
The Record, Bergen County, NJ › April 25, 2005
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TROY, N.Y. - Picking up doughnuts on the way to work recently, George List slid back into the driver's seat and heard a voice from the cup holder suggest an alternate route.
The car wasn't talking, exactly. The voice came from a handheld computer nestled in the holder that links his car to 200 other vehicles in the area. Data from all the vehicles - where they are, how quickly they move - is being used to create snapshots of area traffic patterns.See the full content of this document
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Computing a High-Tech Way Around Traffic Jams ; Project May Help Drivers Nationwide
The system had detected a bottleneck ahead and quickly calculated a faster route.
"I said, 'Oh, that's interesting. It changed its mind when I was doing something else,'-" he said.List obeyed the machine.He later saw the traffic jam - at a dista...See the full content of this document
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