THOUSANDS OF CARS WILL REPORT ON TRAFFIC TO ENABLE THOUSANDS OF OTHER CARS TO AVOID JAMS -- IF COMPANY'S PLANS COME TO FRUITION
A new kind of traffic report, combining real-time GPS data from vehicles on the road with predictions of traffic jams before they happen, is coming soon to major U.S. cities, including San Jose.
The result could be navigation systems that give drivers far more advance warning to avoid choke points on the road -- before they get trapped.
Inrix, a Microsoft spin-off, will deliver traffic information gathered from more than a half-million ``sentinel'' commercial vehicles, equipped with GPS locators, to improve the speed and accuracy of its traffic-flow information, company representatives said last week.