Cars are getting better at telling you more about your driving, with heads-up displays showing your speed and direction, and GPS units letting you know where there's construction or congestion. So what if your car started telling you more about other cars, too?

Hari Balakrishnan, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is using 50 limos and taxis equipped with mobile sensors to send data back to a central computer and help predict road conditions with greater accuracy, letting drivers see how problems evolve in real-time and react accordingly. Balakrishnan has plans to expand the project, and is considering how to use regular consumer technology — such as developing an app iPhone users could download — to help feed his computer (and drivers) with more data.   [Source: dvice.com Read the Full Article]