Microsoft’s Clearflow Keeps You Out of Bad Traffic

Microsoft knows you hate getting stuck in traffic. It’s stressful, it makes you late, and it’s just no fun. Hey, they hate it too! They’re hip; they’re with it. That’s why they’ve been hard at work on a new technology called Clearflow that they’ve just unveiled to the world, a program that’s explicitly designed to keep you out of traffic jams.

While a few GPS navigation systems can show you live traffic reports on your map, they are generally a few minutes behind and not as helpful as you’d like. What Clearflow does is look at traffic data from the past four years for the specific area you’re in, predicting what the current traffic is doing to the traffic of the surrounding areas and intelligently calculating the best route possible based on what it thinks the traffic situation will be like by the time you get there. No more traffic, no more stress, no more being late. Hey, thanks Microsoft!

This entry was posted by Adam on Saturday, April 12th, 2008 at 8:42 am