Tracking Cell Phones for Real-Time Traffic Data

stillgoogling writes to tell us the Associated Press is reporting that the Missouri Department of Transportation is stepping up a project to track the mass movements of cellular phones. This project is designed to use the movements of cell phones to map real-time traffic conditions statewide on more than 5,500 miles of road. From the article: "Officials say there's no Big Brother agenda in the Missouri project -- the data will remain anonymous, leaving no possibility to track specific people from their driveway to their destination."

Re:Uh..

[pha95mlb]

Here you go [ap.org]. I particularly like the phrase "Even though its anonymous, it's still ominous". Try saying that 20 times after a couple of beers.

Re:They're several years behind

[mlush]

This was done in Finland a long time ago. Even made it to Slashdot [slashdot.org]

And this being Slashdot even that was a dupe [slashdot.org]

Airplane interference?

[bhmit1]

So what happens when someone forgets to turn off their phone on an airplane?

"Wow, traffic is really flying on the I-95 corridor"

If I'm being chased by the cops...

[yamum]

and there's a fork in the road. If they see that 99% of people go left and 1% goes right then they'll know 99% chance I'll go left.

So. Then I think they think I'll go left, so I'll go right.

But they think that I think that they think I'll go left to go right so they go left.

But I think they think that I think that they think .... I'm confused.

Re: Just count the fucking CARS!!!

[CagedBear]

The perfect state job:

"seven hundred thirty two thousand three hundred fifty two"
"seven hundred thirty two thousand three hundred fifty three"
"seven hundred thirty two thousand ummm.... ah shit!"
"one"
"two"
"three"...

Re:submitted 2 weeks ago

[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

i submitted this 2 weeks ago but i didn't use "stillgoogling" as my name....

I don't know what you're complaining about. The Slashdot editors' random submission selection system is totally and completely unbiased.