Nokia turns people into traffic sensors

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BobaFett Joined: Jan 06, 2004 Posts: > 500 From: Kamino (wish it would be Lund) PM, WWW	Posted: 2008-02-09 16:53 "UNION CITY, Calif.--On a cool, overcast morning in the parking lot of a Lowe's hardware store, 100 UC Berkeley students lined up in rows ready to jump into a bevy of idling vehicles. With media and VIPs from companies like Nokia, Navteq, General Motors, BMW, and CalTrans looking on, wave after wave of students left the parking lot to drive a 10-mile stretch of the nearby 880 freeway as part of a large-scale experiment to test how cell phones can monitor and predict traffic. The test, conducted all day Friday, was put on by the California Center for Innovative Transportation (CCIT) as a joint project between Nokia, CalTrans, and Berkeley's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering." http://www.news.com/8301-1078[....]ss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 video http://www.news.com/1606-2_3-6229829.html Aquila non capit muscas - /// 4ever! /// Ericsson Forum

laffen Joined: Aug 07, 2001 Posts: > 500 From: Oslo, Norway PM	Posted: 2008-02-09 18:30 I don't see the difference between this and the already existing system Tomtom HD Traffic. One of the HD Traffic sources are mobile phones on the road. Is that legal? This data is purely anonymous. TomTom does not know to whom any mobile phone belongs. TomTom only gets information about the location and the speed at which a mobile phone is moving on the road.

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