Real-time traffic - w/o the radio

Yahoo! Local Traffic has a Apple - dashboard widget download for Mac OS X4. I love it but it still comes up just a little short.

Had an idea like this a few years ago, but the request and alert was presented to a mobile phone -- where it makes sense . . . in your car. And, using GPS it would know where you were and alert you to relevant traffic activity. Three problems with that vision: (1) it's hard to do and GPS in mobile phones is still not pervasive; (2) who would populate the data in real-time to make the information valuable; and (3) where's the money come from/go to? Apart from that it's good to go.

But I guess it's gotta start somewhere, and this is as good a place as any.

Posted by Grayson at May 3, 2005 07:39 AM