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Traffic Jams!

Ecogeek reported yesterday on a company called INRIX and how their traffic database could potentially save a bit of the planet. And oil and money.

Collectively, we spend a huge amount of money and expend a huge amount of co2 during traffic jams that could be someway addressed using hardware/software in your car communicating with centralised software which can alert all other cars with similar hardware/software to potential traffic jams and their avoidance by plotting routes around the areas.

Be great if it worked in Dublin and Cork etc. but the software/hardware would have to be fairly special given our infrastructure and use of cars (apparently 60% of cars parked in Dublin are civil servants'). The machines would have to wake us up earlier, tell our bosses to allow us to go home earlier, sort us out when a wheelbarrow overturns on the M50...

You can post questions on the ecogeek site if you have any - the owner is going to interview the CEO of INRIX in the near future.

http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1658/69/

People attemting to use software to solve chaotic systems always wrecks my head. They're welcome to try, but I won't be holding my breath.

Is Microsoft the operating platform?

Okay forget my question. Found this.

I can just see it now: you're stuck in the middle of nowhere thanks to your new computer and it's just crashed. "Cannot connect to the internet. Would you like to connect to the internet to see if this problem can be resolved?"

Hermes wrote:Okay forget my question. Found this.

I can just see it now: you're stuck in the middle of nowhere thanks to your new computer and it's just crashed. "Cannot connect to the internet. Would you like to connect to the internet to see if this problem can be resolved?"

You may have been wise enough to hold on to your fold-out map. Just in case the very unlikely event you describe above was to occur.

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:

Hermes wrote:Okay forget my question. Found this.

I can just see it now: you're stuck in the middle of nowhere thanks to your new computer and it's just crashed. "Cannot connect to the internet. Would you like to connect to the internet to see if this problem can be resolved?"

You may have been wise enough to hold on to your fold-out map. Just in case the very unlikely event you describe above was to occur.

Lol. The map would be very handy so long as you know where you are. The HELP function on your system might put you beyond rational thought though and beyond caring where you are. I know, I've been there many times

microsoft are coming out with prog called clearflow to do just that, but it won't work there never enough alternative routes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7475986.stm

We might be seeing the end of internet names like www.machinenation.forumakers.com and instead start to see

Machine Nation
Politics Dot IE
The CLR
Ard Taoiseach Homepage...

A complete overhaul of the way in which people navigate the internet has been given the go-ahead in Paris.

The net's regulator, Icann, voted unanimously to relax the strict rules on so-called "top-level" domain names, such as .com or .uk.

The decision means that companies could turn brands into web addresses, while individuals could use their names.

A second proposal, to introduce domain names written in scripts, such as Asian and Arabic, was also approved.

"We are opening up a new world and I think this cannot be underestimated," said Roberto Gaetano, a member of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann).

About shaggin time

lostexpectation wrote:microsoft are coming out with prog called clearflow to do just that, but it won't work there never enough alternative routes.

Visions of that paper clip appearing in the middle of a traffic jam. "Looks like you are trying to find your way to Istanbul? Do you need some help"?



I think they killed the clip off, shame really it was so so Microsoft.

Squire wrote:

lostexpectation wrote:microsoft are coming out with prog called clearflow to do just that, but it won't work there never enough alternative routes.

Visions of that paper clip appearing in the middle of a traffic jam. "Looks like you are trying to find your way to Istanbul? Do you need some help"?



I think they killed the clip off, shame really it was so so Microsoft.

No, no shame at all. It was for the good of humanity that the clip was snipped. That arrogant little prick was the bane of word processors and office workers everywhere.