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<div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div>Well, it is a Federal program, not SF politics. Do you know how many tests are in this program?<br></div><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> jim <jim@well.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> sf-lug <sf-lug@linuxmafia.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, September 6, 2009 10:23:08 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [sf-lug] S. F. politics and software policies<br></font><br>
<br> is there something about San Francisco politics that's <br> not quite fair or open? the snippet below discusses new <br> traffic management technology available only to windows-based <br> cell phones. note the S.F. schools and some other public <br> institutions seem windows-bound, not only internally, but <br> wrt public access. of course, it might be that the other <br> institutions involved have done the filtering, per below: <br> <br> from<br><span><span> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cover6-2009sep06,0,6494829.story?page=2&track=rss">http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cover6-2009sep06,0,6494829.story?page=2&track=rss</a>
</span></span><br> <br> [A] major effort is dubbed IntelliDrive. Funded by the federal<br> government and major automobile manufacturers, and overseen by <br> the U.S. Department of Transportation, the program will begin <br> tests of a traffic warning system in San Francisco next month.<br> <br> Participating drivers will receive signals on their cellphones <br> alerting them to bottlenecks approximately 60 seconds ahead. <br> The phone will say, "Slow traffic ahead" through its speaker <br> phone or headset, and a message will appear on its screen.<br> <br> The operators of the program will use traffic information from <br>
several existing sources, including Caltrans, and crunch it to <br> provide the real-time warnings. Only cellphones using... <br> <br> Windows-based operating <---- systems <br> <br> ...will be able to download the software to take part in the <br> test--which leaves out iPhones and BlackBerrys, among others.<br> <br> A video showing how it works is at<br> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.intellidriveusa.org/library/videos.php">www.intellidriveusa.org/library/videos.php</a> <br> The ultimate goal is a dashboard warning system, fed by sensors <br> in cars and along highways, to alert drivers of
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