"What they've decided to do in Minnesota is they've invested in gathering this data and what they've decided is that it's their public mission to now disseminate this information."
ALK's TravRoute arm sells Co-Pilot Live software for PocketPCs and now notebooks. The communication link to traffic data systems can be used to automatically route users around traffic problems. And with privacy safeguards, Kornhauser says navigation equipped vehicles can use data links to instantly report developing traffic problems...
"While you're traveling on a road ahead, without letting anybody know that it's you, tell the people behind you what the conditions are."
Sort of like an updated, high tech version of those old CB radios. Bloomberg Boot Camp, I'm Fred Fishkin.