Posts Tagged ‘transportation systems program’

Coming to a console near you: Midnight Club: Los Angeles

Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Way back in nineties, this particular blogger had to get rid of his PlayStation because he was spending far too many nights on GranTurismo. Something about knocking a tenth of a second off our best time in the Mazda Demio was as addictive as air. Last Friday we spent an hour in front of the pre-prod......

Audi system detects stop lights, tells drivers to floor it

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
It takes months of traveling a particular route to properly time the stop lights, and even with the most intricate knowledge of every intersection, missing the red every time is about as probable as winning the lotto. Audi is looking to change that with a new stop light detection technology that com......

Microsoft launches new Clearflow traffic avoidance system

Monday, April 14th, 2008
Eric Horvitz is the president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, as well as being an AI researcher at Microsoft. When stuck in traffic one day in Seattle, he asked his nav system to reroute him via side streets, and the result was worse than being stuck on the highway......

More fodder for “Big Brother” theorists

Thursday, March 10th, 2005
As if the story that we linked to a few weeks ago from AutoWeek wasn't enough to start you building those hats made of tin-foil to stop aliens and "The Man" from reading your thoughts, comes this lengthy but thorough look at the "National Intelligent Transportation Systems Program Plan: A Ten-Year V......