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MTC partners with Waze to ease Bay Area traffic

Original post made on Dec 16, 2016

The agency responsible for helping plan and finance the Bay Area's transportation systems is teaming up with a tech company that crowdsources real-time traffic information in order to ease congestion on the region's notoriously clogged roadways.


Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, December 16, 2016, 12:27 PM

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Posted by Reader
a resident of another community
on Dec 16, 2016 at 7:46 pm

This is all fine, I use and enjoy the Waze app on my smartphone. That said, there is one piece of information that is omitted from this story, one that is particularly relevant to readers of the Mountain View Voice.

WAZE IS OWNED BY GOOGLE. (or perhaps parent company Alphabet)

For those skittish of giving one company too much data about your daily activities, Waze is certainly something that must be carefully considered.


Posted by Commuter
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Dec 17, 2016 at 10:44 am

Could Mountain View consider something that worked elsewhere:
These AI Traffic Lights Could Shorten Your Commute
Pittsburgh is installing traffic lights controlled by artificial intelligence, and they could be coming to your city soon.
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