Don't you just hate sitting in traffic? Don't you wish there was a way to avoid getting stuck in a traffic jam, a way to check up on the real-time road conditions, on demand, on the roads you're planning travel? Well, Microsoft has heeded your call!
At the company's Microsoft Research India facilities, researchers are working on just such a solution.
With its promised new software solution for smartphones, TrafficSense, Microsoft will enable Windows Mobile smartphone users to get an up-to-the-minute traffic report on any route they want to know about, whenever they need to know it. How it plans to compile this information is an interesting subject.
The application will aggregate traffic information from other Windows Mobile smartphone users and disseminate that data to those supported users querying road conditions at that time, in their area. Plainly put, if you're a TrafficSense user, then whenever you get in your car to go somewhere, a piece of software inside your smartphone will relay the route you took and the traffic conditions along them to a central database from which others could query those same road conditions for their routes.
Sadly, we sense a potential privacy concern at risk here. Would you join? Let us know.
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