Subject: [NEXTEL-1] RE: The Key to Highway

From: John M <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 15:40:59 -0800 (PST)

Nowhere in the article does it say where all this
traffic data is coming from.  I'm guessing probably
off of Westwood One's Metro/Shadow/Smartroute net. 
Possibly in some areas might even be parsed from
online State Patrol CAD systems. Also just covers
incidents but not actual congestion information, it
makes the spurious assumption that "incidents =
congestion".

A much greater problem then delivering the content to
a vehicle is trying to gather it.  Simply saying that
there is an incident at point x is pretty useless if
you don't know what effect it is having on traffic or
what the alternate routes are like.  

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Message: 3
   Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:04:28 -0500
   From: "Gerard G. Cook" <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: The Key to Highway

        Traffic in Los Angeles is sort of like your
least favorite 
relative
at a holiday get-together -- always annoying and
always there. I've 
been on
the freeway at midnight on Saturday, stuck in traffic
that I would 
normally
expect to see only during Friday-afternoon rush hour.
And the folks at 
my
local news-radio stations aren't much help. They
update the traffic 
scene
every 10 minutes, but they rarely have enough time to
report on all the
worst tie-ups.

        Microsoft (MSFT ) has come to the rescue with
a series of 
upgrades
to its MSN Autos site, which hosts one of Redmond's
earliest forays 
into Web
services. Its My Car service offers real-time traffic
alerts for 65 
major
cities, delivered via text message to any mobile
phone, pager, or PDA.

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