Tag: "traffic"

Producer's Notes: Driverless Cars

Producer's Notes: Driverless Cars

Shelley doesn't use lasers to see the terrain like her predecessor, Junior. Instead, the car uses differential GPS to find its position on an internal map.

 
Reporter's Notes: Dialing in on Traffic

Reporter's Notes: Dialing in on Traffic

The pilot project at UC Berkeley called Mobile Millennium uses cell phones as data points to show traffic patterns in real time. To become an early adopter of the technology, you must have an unlimited data plan on a mobile phone with a GPS system.