Researchers Apply P2P Principles To Car Traffic

alphadogg writes to tell us that lessons learned from peer-to-peer networks are being applied to traffic systems in order to prevent jams. "Their Autonet plan would center around ad hoc networks of vehicles and roadside monitoring posts supported by 802.11 technology (the prototype uses 11b). The vehicles would essentially be the 'clients' in such a system and feature graphical user interfaces to pass along information to drivers. They're building the system to be able to handle data on thousands of traffic incidents and road conditions."

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Re:How many times does this need to be said??!!

[pintpusher]

thank you for inspiring me to finally translate that sig. I've looked at it for years thinking I really should translate it, but haven't bothered.

Now that you've taken the cheap way out and used a damn plugin to do the grunt work, I've gone and done it the right way.

and 01111001 01100101 01110011 00101100 00100000 01111001 01100101 01110011 00100000 01001001 00100000 01100001 01101101 00101110

(cross fingers it's right, 'cause I'll hear no end of crap if it's not...)