What’s All This Then!

If you been shopping around for new cars, you probably noticed that more and more of them come equipped with navigational systems. In the next couple of years, you will probably see those systems display traffic congestion as a standard feature. Right now, you have to buy an additional service from another company that broadcasts traffic conditions over the radio.

Since part of my job involves working with GPS systems, I came across a new company today that has a new take on with their navigational system. Instead of relying on traffic reports, “Dash Navigation” is going to create its own traffic report by connecting its navigational systems as a large traffic-reporting network.

While this is very interesting news, what caught my attention is that they are looking to give their system for free to 2000 drivers as a nationwide test. Here’s a website if you are interested:

http://www.dash.net/roadtest.php

At this website, you will submit a survey to Dash Navigation. By the end of May, they will select their drivers. I have completed my application but I would think that they may be looking for people who do a lot of driving in large metropolitan areas. Still, it doesn’t hurt to try.

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