BERKELEY (CBS 5 / KCBS) ― UC Berkeley and Nokia tested technology Friday that could soon transform the way drivers get information about road conditions. 100 cars equipped with the GPS-enabled Nokia N95 cell phones, and driven by students from... Full Article at CBS 5
As a user you are not only contributing to the data, but you are benefiting from it by looking at it in real time on your phone
phones as a sensor for the world that we live in.
During the peak of the peak of the commute all the roads are pretty much congested, and if a road isn't congested and it goes anywhere, people will find it
We're trying to give drivers enough information to make those decisions themselves ... If someone is commuting, they know all the alternatives. People aren't stupid.
What you want to know as a consumer is a solution -- you don't just want a bunch of data ... You want to know that, today, this is the best route home.
Getting that information back to the drivers, that's the Holy Grail -- so drivers can make smart decisions about their commute
From a privacy standpoint, the less information given, the better ... Cell phone users will have the option to turn off the service if they don't want to use it or they don't want their data sent.
It would be great if the phone, instead of saying go left or right, would say you're meeting so-and-so at 10 a.m. and because traffic is picking up, you should leave now and you should avoid [a particular] exit because traffic is backing up
I'm not saying you shouldn't do something like this, I'm saying people need to be informed about what's done with the data ... You need to ask if its being collected and how long is it going to be archived.
Nokia is very excited at the potential for this system to revolutionize travel planning, carrying on from the Nokia Maps navigation service available today on certain Nokia devices
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