traffic
Cameras

The Man Who Successfully Challenged Five Speeding Tickets

Will Foreman keeps getting nabbed by traffic cameras for speeding. Believing the cameras to be inaccurate he analysed the timestamps and the position of his car in each pair of photos, using them to successfully contest five speeding tickets.

March 28, 2011
Gadgets

SUNA Traffic To Come Pre-Installed On Clarion In-Car Satnavs

Gizmodo AU

SUNA traffic updates are fairly common in portable GPS navigation devices, but not as common with the built-in head units. That’s changed a bit today, with Clarion announcing it will be sporting the Intellematics traffic channel in its new range of devices launching in April.

March 25, 2011
Cars

Who Knew Rush Hour In LA Could Look So Nice?

If you’ve ever lived in Southern California, the mere mention of rush hour will inspire fear and dread in the hearts of residents. And yet, when you watch this 24-hour visualisation of LA traffic, created by the grey Area Foundation and Nik Hansellman for GPS app maker Waze, those feelings cease to exist. Go figure!

Cars

Giz Explains: Traffic

Americans talk about traffic like the English talk about the weather. It’s a constant upset, a never-ending obsession. We’ve heard the stats: The commuter loses 36 hours a year stuck on the road, over $US800 dollars in the same amount of time, and, well, an immeasurable amount of sanity. There’s a lot of talk about what has to happen to make it better, but not a lot of discussion about what causes the problem in the first place. So why is there so much damn traffic?

March 8, 2011
Cars

Google Maps Navigation Now Directs You Around Traffic

I’ll gladly drive out of my way to avoid the soul-crushing agony of bumper-to-bumper traffic, and that’s just what a new beta for the Google Maps Navigation Android app will show me how to do.

February 18, 2011
Mobile

Chicago Driver Sued For Facebook-While-Driving Fatality

A 21-year-old woman was allegedly updating her Facebook page by mobile phone when she struck and killed a 70-year-old pedestrian.

February 9, 2011
Geek Out

Rhode Island City Plans To Leave 600 Rogue Stop Signs Standing

At some point in recent years, a ghost in the urban planning machine put up 700 rogue stop signs in Cranston, Rhode Island, (pop. 80,000; stop sign pop. 2600). They’re totally undocumented, and the city can’t figure out where exactly they came from. But after an investigation by a specially appointed committee, they’re planning to leave 580 of ‘em right where they are.

January 29, 2011
Cameras

This Car DVR Is Worth Ten Traffic Lawyers

Planes have black boxes to record the vitals of an incident. About time cars had something similar, no? Enter the Car DVR, your fool-proof way to put the blame on the other guy. Assuming, you know, it’s his fault.

January 20, 2011
Cars

Chinese Motorists Are Paying People To Sit In Traffic Jams For Them

I don’t know about you, but I kinda relish getting stuck in a traffic jam. Scoping people out, playing some Angry Birds, finding that perfect Phil Collins drum solo… but not for 10 hours. Figures, then, that Chinese companies are renting jam-stooges out.

December 20, 2010
Online

Google Maps Now Monitoring Traffic In Perth And Adelaide

Gizmodo AU

Google Maps has been showing traffic performance for Sydney Brisbane and Melbourne for a while now, but now Perth and Adelaide residents can find out how traffic is prevailing in their capital city too.

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