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Sensor Data Being Tapped Ahead of Driverless Cars
- GPB News, Monday, October 26, 2015 10:05 AM
It's just you and your music in your car during Atlanta's rush hour. Then again...not really. "Caution - there's a car pulled over on the right." That's the voice of traffic apps like Waze, Sigalert, Google Maps or INRIX, steering you around trouble. With apps like Waze, it's crowdsourced traffic data; users warn each other about slowdowns, accidents, roadwork and the occasional car parked on the shoulder. That's pretty cool - but of course, there's nothing cooler than a car that drives itself, according to Georgia Tech's Michael Hunter, director of the university's Georgia Transportation Institute. "The driverless car is exciting and is going to change the way transportation works," says Hunter.
