Bad Weather Gridlocks - A Thing of the Past?
Date: Wednesday, September 14 @ 10:38:41 UTC
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Last month it was reported that The Highways Agency, the government body responsible for the UK's major roads, reached an agreement with TomTom to feed its traffic information into TomTom's High Definition Traffic Services.
Following this, The Telegraph now reports that The Agency also aims to roll out live government data to a lot more of our satnavs by Christmas 2012. Details of the further initiative were disclosed by the Government in its response to the Transport Select Committee.
The intention is to relay the same weather information simultaneously displayed on overhead gantries straight to our satnavs.
We all know how many drivers ignore the icy conditions, heavy winds and fog warning signs - do we really think that an extra warning on their satnav will slow them down?
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