A Microsoft Research Project Offloads GPS Data and Calculations to the Cloud to Save Battery Life. | MIT Technology Review 2012-12-26 CLEO can perform continuous GPS sensing for a year and a half efficiently enough to be sustained by just two AA batteries. In a typical mobile phone, Liu says, continuous GPS sensing would burn through the device’s battery in roughly six hours. (In practice, data from Wi-Fi base stations and cellular towers contribute to location ...

Microsimulation of Road Traffic Flow | Martin Treiber 2012-12-21 Microsimulation of road traffic flow

Cellphone data helps pinpoint source of traffic tie-ups – MIT News Office 2012-12-20 In the Boston area, they found that canceling 1 percent of trips by select drivers in the Massachusetts municipalities of Everett, Marlborough, Lawrence, Lowell and Waltham would cut all drivers’ additional commuting time caused by traffic congestion by 18 percent. In the San Francisco area, canceling trips by drivers from Dublin, Hayward, San Jose, San ...

Increasing fuel efficiency with a smartphone – MIT News Office 2012-12-20 A network of dashboard-mounted phones can collect data on traffic lights and tell drivers how to avoid inefficient stopping and starting. In addition to testing SignalGuru in Cambridge, where traffic lights are on fixed schedules, the researchers also tested it in Singapore, where the duration of lights varies continuously according to fluctuations in traffic flow. In ...

More Autonomous Vehicles Headed to Nevada Roads | Autopia | Wired.com 2012-12-20 Continental aims to have partially automated driving systems — mainly geared toward low-speed, start-and-stop traffic, and accident avoidance — available to its by automaker customers by 2016. And between 2020 and 2025, Degenhard says that, “fully automated driving, even at higher speeds and in more complex driving situations, ready for production by 2020 ...

White points mean prizes for safe driving in Dubai – The National 2012-12-19 Drivers who go 12 months without any violations will be eligible for prizes worth a minimum of Dh500 each. Dubai Police say there will be between 250 to 500 prizes. via White points mean prizes for safe driving in Dubai – The National. Gamification, yeah!

No lights, no signs, no accidents – future intersections for driverless cars | Video | Reuters.com 2012-12-19 Computer scientists at the University of Texas in Austin are developing intersections of the future, designed to accommodate the driverless vehicles they believe will soon take over our roads. The intersection will have no traffic lights and no stop signs, just computer programs that will talk directly to each car on the road. via No lights, ...