Friday 31 July 2015

How Often As You Drive Towards Traffic Lights,

do you think 'I wish I could change them to green',


well it is not going to happen quite yet, but if you have an app for iOS and Android that communicates with a city’s traffic lights to let you know when a stale green light is about to turn yellow, or a red light two blocks ahead will turn green it may help you judge your distance and therefore speed as you approach the light, the app is called EnLighten and is the brainchild of Matt Ginsberg, CEO and founder of Connected Signals, a red, yellow, or green circle indicates the current state of the signal, a countdown pops up at the bottom of the circle, letting the driver know how long before the green light goes red and then how you'll have to wait at the red light, EnLighten requires the cooperation of cities to make it work, it works in the states of Portland and Eugene (Connected Signals’ headquarters) in Oregon are all fully covered, as well as Salt Lake City, the app will roll out in other cities as the company gains access to its traffic signals, BMW announced on Monday that its iDrive system will integrate with EnLighten for iOS, any BMW with the iDrive system, even cars already on the road, can install the app and control it using iDrive, but here is the big one, where can I get an app that will actually change the lights to green as I approach them, like I guess they have on fire trucks etc?


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