Via The New York Times: Using wireless sensors embedded in streets and city garages, a smartphone app now will show San Francisco motorists where there are parking spaces available — in many cases up to the second. The $20 million parking project here, called SFpark, is backed by the Transportation Department and the Federal Highway [...]
So you’re driving around, wondering where in the heck you plug in your new-fangled electric car. Worry no more. A new ios app will show you where charging stations and outlets are. Via Gizmodo: Driving an electric car is like going through life with permanent food poisoning. It takes lots of planning to make [...]
Motorists who use an iPhone will have more information at their finger tips with an update this spring to a navigation app — and more reason to ignore the road. iGo My Way — developed by NNG — is a 3-D GPS app for drivers in the style of Garmin. The upgraded app will be [...]
Curious about the number of fatal accidents that have taken place along your favorite route to work? There’s an app for that. Danger Zones is an iPhone app that displays five years of vehicle fatality locations across the country and plots the accidents as points on a Google map. The GPS Location service shows your [...]
If you have texting on your iPhone while stuck in traffic down, how about loading and firing your 9 mm? We don’t recommend trying this, but we can sympathize. And go with the lite version, and stay away from the shotgun.
Read and browse PDFs of reports and studies looking at Chicago traffic and how best to battle congestions.