[Microsoft TechFest 2008] Ramachandran Ramjee and Prashanth Mohan from Microsoft Research Lab in Bangalore, India, showed me a demo of their “Mobile Sensing Platform” (I renamed it considering the title is too enlarged!). Each sensing enabled phone can detect a honk, a bump or a brake, and the documents collected from all users can supply the traffic status or the road condition (bumps and holes) to

servers in real instance. Note that honking in traffic is specific to some countries and that has been developed to be applied in India. whether it works and whether the majority of drivers use it, it could improve the accuracy of the real date traffic info.

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Orginal post by Rick Broida