Wireless traffic display system

darkhalo · 08-12-2004, 02:21 AM

This guy claims he is getting realtime traffic info from the Washington Department of Transportation. is this the DAB thing you guys keep talking about, or is it something else?

http://www.maokhian.com/l300/computer/

Rykielz · 08-12-2004, 02:42 AM

intersting....

darkhalo · 08-12-2004, 03:30 AM

Bump...

darkhalo · 08-12-2004, 11:37 AM

bump...

Spaghetti · 08-12-2004, 12:05 PM

DAB is UK digital radio. I'm not sure if DAB could extend to this sort of thing though

Motoko · 08-12-2004, 01:54 PM

Could do. but why is DAB in the US?

Superduck · 08-12-2004, 02:12 PM

It's obviously data that's available online. Why else have a constant internet connection, when he's only using the carputer for traffic data? It's just a matter of where he's d/l'ing the data from, and what program to display it.

Kris

Tred · 08-12-2004, 02:17 PM

do they offer something like this for the NY area?

Ive seen something similar for cali.

darkhalo · 08-12-2004, 02:17 PM

why hasn't anyone else thought of this, and how can we take advantage of it?

Spaghetti · 08-12-2004, 02:28 PM

One of the UK guys here (can't remember his name, but he's really clever!) is doing this. It's a one touch proggy that retrieves pages off the internet. ****, gotto go - got lightning here. Don't wanna blow out my modem again

toadster123 · 08-12-2004, 03:12 PM

umm, if u have a wifi adaptor .. and u can connect to the internet... u could go to http://www.traffic.com

thats my only suggestion...

of course u need a wifi connection and u have to have a web browser open... but hey.. maybe be4 u get out of your driveway, you could just check out the roads you are driving on...

falconey · 08-12-2004, 03:23 PM

This looks very interesting especially for those of us connecting to the interenet via cell phone. I wonder how to get a hold of the site he dl's the info from.

falconey · 08-12-2004, 03:26 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by toadster123

umm, if u have a wifi adaptor .. and u can connect to the internet... u could go to http://www.traffic.com

thats my only suggestion...

of course u need a wifi connection and u have to have a web browser open... but hey.. maybe be4 u get out of your driveway, you could just check out the roads you are driving on...

Man how is Atlanta not on their list of cities?

darkhalo · 08-12-2004, 03:37 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by falconey

This looks very interesting especially for those of us connecting to the interenet via cell phone. I wonder how to get a hold of the site he dl's the info from.

You said it man, gotta love the cell phones!!!

gadget · 08-12-2004, 03:50 PM

If you are in the Denver area, I might suggest a few websites (load them in tabs under mozilla firefox)

Real time traffic speeds from CDOT sensors:

If you want pictures of traffic rather than just what speed (MPH) as shown above, you can do that too.

http://www.denvergov.org/TRAFFIC/

(This is close to where the Colorado Rockies baseball team plays)

Again, I would suggest auto loading tabs that load up pictures in the backgound so you don't have to sit and wait for them to refresh at slow modem speeds. If you have a normal route - set those cameras up in your bookmarks.

Let's see a factory navigation system do THAT!!!

Access can be via your cell phone provider or most of Denver is served by Ricohet wireless high speed internet, so you could put one of those modems in your car and have pretty good high speed access while driving around.