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Buses as Mobile Sensing Platforms?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the jealously-guarding-the-bus-lane dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "According to European researchers, modern buses could be used as mobile sensing platforms, sending out live information to be used to control traffic and detect road hazards. The 3.83 million euro EU-funded MORYNE project was completed in March 2008 with a test in Berlin, Germany. During this test, the researchers 'equipped city buses with environmental sensors and cameras, allowing the vehicles to become transmitters of measurements, warnings and live or recorded videos to anyone allowed to access the data.' "

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  1. Huh? by Finallyjoined!!! · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's buses & bloody bus-lanes that are the cause of most of the traffic problems.

    Certainly in London, and especially the poxy "bendy" ones.

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