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Most Traffic Jams Are Caused By Just A Handful Of Idiots

Deep in your heart you know it: there are like two drivers out there on the road that are causing all the traffic jams, and one of those arseholes is the guy right in front of you. Well, new information collected from hundreds and hundreds of drivers’ mobile phones actually backs that up. Sort of. It turns out that it takes very few jackasses to screw things up for everyone.


This Highway Tracks Random Bluetooth Signals To Estimate Travel Times

They city of Calgary in Canada has recently installed a $400,000 traffic monitoring system on a stretch of highway known as the Deerfoot Trail. And to track the movement and progress of vehicles it monitors the Bluetooth signals coming from mobile phones, headsets or built-in entertainment systems.


SUNA Traffic Launches In New Zealand, Insert Your Own Sheep Joke Here

On learning that SUNA’s traffic monitoring services for GPS are being extended to New Zealand, it would be easy to make one of two jokes: (1) does it come with a sheep icon? (2) New Zealand has traffic? So we’ve done that. But the option to dodge accidents and congestion can be useful in any large city, so this is ultimately good news, eh bro?


Hacked Frogger Arcade Now Has You Dodging The Real Traffic In New York

Believe it or not, Frogger has been skipping his way across busy highways for 30 years now. And to celebrate his anniversary, Tyler DeAngelo created this updated version of the arcade classic that now has the frog dodging the real-time traffic on New York’s Fifth Avenue.


Suna 3 Promises Swifter Traffic Management

Suna’s 3rd generation traffic management product claims to address issues of data quality, reliability and transmission of its traffic management service.


The Most Horrific Traffic In The Entire World

LA and New York must have the worst commutes known to mankind, right? Totally wrong. It gets, much, much worse — according to IBM’s recent global survey of automotive horror, those two cities are among the best. What’re the worst?


Englishman Slows Speeders By Installing… A Bird Feeder

Driving fast is awesome. Getting tickets sucks. But at the end of the day, probably safer. One Englishman agreed. He noticed that speed cameras are a good deterrent for speeders. Only he didn’t need a camera. He used a bird feeder that looks like a camera.


New TomToms Intro HD Traffic For Australians

TomTom’s HD Traffic service has finally arrived in Australia with the launch of four new ‘Go Live’ in-car GPS devices starting at $299. (Yes, they’ve also updated the TomTom iPhone app). And unlike the Suna traffic service used by Garmin and Navman, TomTom uses a built-in SIM card (not FM) to track and update user data, official incident reports, and real time traffic flows. HD Traffic also works in both metro and regional areas.


NYC Commuters Will Soon Be Getting Microwaved

Getting caught in traffic sucks for everyone. So New York City Mayor Bloomberg and his crack team of engineers are working on a way to both monitor traffic and get you moving, involving more cameras and a lot of microwaves.


Google Kills Map Traffic Estimates In The US

If you’re wondering how road traffic’s gonna slow you today, don’t turn to Google Maps anymore – the site’s killed its estimates in the US (So far not in Australia). Not because it wasn’t popular. It turns out those road calculations didn’t exactly correlate to, you know, reality.


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