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Category Archives: Car Navigation
How to Avoid the Worst of the New Zealand Traffic Jams During Horse of the Year this Weekend
Horse of the Year is coming up in Hawkes Bay. For commercial travellers and holidaymakers, this generates traffic congestion, with a cortege of horse floats on SH5 from Taupo and SH2 from the south pretty much all day before and … Continue reading →
Posted in Car Navigation, Google maps, GPS Navigation, holiday traffic, New Zealand, real time traffic, road trip, safer driving, safer journeys, Sport, traffic, traffic congestion, Traffic Information, Traffic jam, Truck Navigation
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Tagged Google directions, Google Maps, Hawkes Bay, Horse of the year, real time traffic, real time traffic information, SH2, SH5, Traffic Information
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YOU’RE ALL FROGS
Of course it doesn’t actually apply to you because you read my blog and you know how tirelessly I have worked to encourage people to make smarter decisions about their travel, especially their commute. So don’t think of this as … Continue reading →
Posted in Car Navigation, Car Technology, cars, commuting, congestion, cycling, drivers, driving, driving app, freeway, Google maps, Government, GPS Apps, GPS Car Nav, GPS Maps, GPS Nav, GPS Navigation, HERE, Intelligent Transport Systems, ITS, love of cars, Nav Maps, Navigation Maps, Navman, New Zealand, People, Public Transport, road rage, RTTI, Telecommuting, traffic, traffic congestion, traffic demand, traffic design, Traffic Information, Traffic jam, Traffic Management, Traffic Optimization, travel demand management, Unusual Traffic, Urban design
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Tagged car navigation, Frogs, Google Maps, gps nav, HERE, RTTI, traffic, Traffic congestion, Traffic jam, travel information
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What is the Best Home Security for 2020?
House burglaries, theft of, and from cars in people’s driveways, porch pirates are all things we have to deal with today and of course even more so leading up to the Christmas Holidays. What I really want to share with … Continue reading →
Posted in Bike thieves, Black Friday, Bluetooth, burglary, car insurance, Car Navigation, car security, Car theft, Crime, crime map, Crime Prevention, cybercrime, drug shopping, drugs, Facebook, Foresight, Gadgets, Hacker, HAcking cars, holiday traffic, Home automation, insurance risk, Internet of Things, Internet Privacy, kids wearable tech, location based apps, Location Based Consultant, Location Based Education, long weekend, Luggage tracking, Map apps, mobile holiday apps, mobile safety, neighborhood crime, Neighbourhood Crime, News, Personal security, Police, road trip, security, Sensors, SmartPhone, Social Media, Social Media Insight, Society, stolen, Stolen cars, theft, track crime, Track phone, Track Smartwatch., Track Thieves, Tracking criminals, Travel Apps
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Tagged Best Home Security, Best home security 2020, BTLE, burglary, Christmas Holiday, Cloud security, consumer electronics, Crime, cybersecurity, drug addict, house burglary, keeping up with the jones, meth, meth head, Micro SD Card, porch pirates, security camera, security tips, Selfies, stealing to order, theft to order
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Solving the Traffic Jam Problem – Getting Cities Moving Again
I got pretty excited when I read the press release about Volkswagen getting together with D-Wave, using quantum computing to demonstrate real time traffic optimised routing at the Web Summit conference in Lisbon which starts tomorrow. I wish I was … Continue reading →
Posted in accidents, Artificial intelligence, Auckland, BAU, Big Data, Bus Apps, Buses, Business, Business Intelligence, car accidents, car crash, Car Navigation, car safety, Car Technology, car tracker, car tracking, city GPS travel apps, commuting, congestion, connected cars, Crash, disruptive model, driving, driving app, Fleet Management, Freight App, Future, future car, Future Technology, Good travel apps, Google, Government, GPS Bus Tracking, GPS Car Nav, GPS Nav, GPS Navigation, HERE, holiday traffic, Intelligent Transport Systems, location based apps, Location Based Consultant, motorway, Politics, Public Transport, Qauntum Theory, road rage, road toll, Road Tolling, Road Tolls, Route Optimisation, RTTI, RUC, safer driving, safer journeys, Safety app, School Bus, Schoolbus, SoLoMo, the future, TomTom, traffic, traffic congestion, Traffic Control, traffic demand, traffic design, Traffic Information, Traffic jam, Traffic Management, Traffic Optimization, Transport, travel demand management, Travel Information, Truck GPS, Truck Navigation, truck safety, Trucks, Why fleet management
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Tagged ATOC, Auckland Transport, Auckland Transport Operations Centre, bus optimisation, City Lab, couriers, D-Wave, distribution, eRUC, freight, GDP, GeoSmart, gridlock, HERE, Luigi Cappel, National Road Carriers, PND, quantum computing, reduce maximum driving speed, Route2Go, RTTI, Safe Speed Programme, smart cities, Traffic jam, Volkswagen, Waterloo University, Web Summit Conference
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Short Videos About GPS, Apps, Maps and More: Location Based Shorts. The Eyes Have It.
Location Based Shorts is a new series where I am embarking on a new series of sub 3 minute VLOGS (Video Blogs) about things that interest me and if you follow me, probably will interest you. I comment on things … Continue reading →
Posted in #TheGPSMadeMeDoIt, Accurate Map Tracking, Autonomous cars, Bank Robbery, Best GPS, Best Practice GPS, Bluetooth, Car Navigation, Car Parking, Car Robot, car safety, Car Technology, car tracker, carpark information, carparking, cars, Catch Crooks with GPS, commuting, Concept Car, congestion, connected cars, disruptive model, Driverless car, Driverless Cars, driverless vehicles, drivers, driving, driving app, Future, future car, Future Technology, Futurist, Gadgets, Government, GPS, GPS Car Nav, GPS features, GPS MAde Me Do IT, GPS Maps, GPS Nav, GPS Navigation, GPS Police Tracker, GPS Problems, GPS Track People, GPS Tracker, GPS Tracking, Hacker, Hackers, Hacking, HAcking cars, Indoor Navigation, Innovation, Intelligent Transport Systems, Internet of Things, Internet Privacy, IoT, law enforcement, location based apps, Location Based Consultant, Location Based Education, Location Based Servces, Location Based Shorts, Luggage tracking, Map apps, mapping buildings, Maps, mobile travel apps, Motoring, nav apps, new cars, parking, parking apps, Police, Privacy, real time traffic, Road Tolling, Road Tolls, road trip, robots, RUC, safer driving, safer journeys, Safety app, Smart Car, Smart City, SmartPhone, Smartphones, Social Media, spy, stolen, Stolen cars, the future, top apps, Track Thieves, Tracking Apps, traffic, traffic congestion, Traffic Control, traffic demand, traffic design, Traffic Information, Traffic jam, Traffic Management, Traffic Optimization, Transport, travel demand management, Travel Information, V2V
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30% of Urban Traffic is People Looking for a Car Park
I used to love Friday networking lunches in Ponsonby, Auckland. We use to meet at an Indian restaurant who gave us a great deal and there would always be new people and opportunities. The challenge was that finding a car … Continue reading →
Posted in Auckland, Australia, Buses, Car Navigation, Car Parking, carpark information, carparking, cars, commuting, congestion, disruptive model, drivers, driving app, future car, GPS Car Nav, GPS Maps, GPS Nav, GPS Navigation, location based apps, Location Based Services, Location Based Shorts
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Tagged car park, car parking, Frogparking, ParKam, traffic, Traffic congestion, Traffic jam
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You’ve Got To Stop Those Hacking Waze, Baby
I was told about a great new route to commute to work by a colleague and it was really good for a while. The 14km trip took about an hour by motorway and not much quicker taking the main arterial … Continue reading →
Posted in #TheGPSMadeMeDoIt, accidents, Accurate Map Tracking, aggressive driving, Apps, Best GPS, Best Practice GPS, car hacking, Car Nav Caused Crash, Car Navigation, cars, cheap gps, cheating GPS, Communications, commuting, congestion, crowd sourced data, distracted driving, driver behavior, driving, driving app, earthquake, emergency, Flood, Foresight, freeway, Google maps, Google Mobile App, GPS, GPS Accuracy, GPS Car Nav, GPS Excuses, GPS MAde Me Do IT, GPS Maps, GPS Nav, GPS Navigation, GPS Problems, Hacker, Hackers, Hacking, Hacks, HERE, Intelligent Transport Systems, location based apps, Location Based Consultant, Map apps, Map data, Mobile Apps, Mobile Maps, mobile travel apps, Motoring, motorway, nav accident, nav apps, Nav Maps, Navigation Maps, Navman, road trip, RTTI, safer driving, safer journeys, Smart City, Technology, TomTom, traffic, traffic congestion, Traffic Control, traffic demand, traffic design, Traffic Information, Traffic jam, Traffic Management, Traffic Optimization, Transport, Travel, Travel Apps, travel demand management, Travel Information, tsunami, Unusual Traffic, Urban design
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Tagged #TheGPSMadeMeDoIt, alternate route, best car navigation, car navigation, detour, emergency plan, evacuation plan, fake road closure, family emergency plan, Flood, funny GPS story, Garmin, GPS, HERE, jump on the lake, rat run, rat runner, rat running, real time traffic information, road closure, RTTI, TomTom, Waze, WAZE hack
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Is Google Maps Competing with Waze for Real Time Traffic?
“We’re excited about the prospect of enhancing Google Maps with some of the traffic update features provided by Waze and enhancing Waze with Google’s search capabilities.” Continue reading →
Posted in accidents, Android, Apps, Auckland, Buses, Car Navigation, Uncategorized
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Tagged avoiding traffic jams, Commuting, Google Maps, how to set up Waze, how to use Waze, Is Waze moving from Israel?, Leonia, rat run, real time traffic information, Traffic congestion, Traffic jam, Waze, what is a rat run
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Gartner and the Trough of Disillusionment
The loneliness of a long distance futurist comes from having a picture of what the future might look like, the understanding of the benefits, measured against how long it takes to get realise; and the consequences of people’s opinions when … Continue reading →
Posted in Autonomous cars, Autonomous Trucks, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Car Navigation, Concept Car, connected cars, Data Science, disruptive model, Driverless car, Driverless Cars, Driverless trucks, driverless vehicles, Foresight, Future, future car, Future Technology, Futurist, Qauntum Theory, Technology, telecommunications
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Tagged Autonomous car, Big data, Blueprint for Survival, CDPD, driverless car, Futurist, Gartner, Herzberg, Internet of Things, IoT, machine learning, Maslow, MeMail, mobile email, Peak of Inflated Expectations, proof of deliver, Rocom, Tait, trough of disillusionment, Virgin Galactic, Wearable computer, wearables
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Remember the jokes about what if computer manufacturers built cars?
Mashable Australia put out a story this month about A Tesla that crashed while on Autopilot, where the ‘driver’ died and discussed the implications to the industry. So what exactly does autopilot mean. I’ve been on the jump seat on … Continue reading →
Posted in Autonomous cars, bad gps, Best GPS, Car Nav Caused Crash, Car Navigation, commuting, driver distraction, Driverless car, GPS Accuracy, GPS Car Nav, GPS MAde Me Do IT, GPS Maps, GPS Nav, GPS Problems, Pokemon Go, traffic, traffic congestion
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Tagged #TheGPSMadeMeDoIt, boy racers, car autopilot, dangerous driving, GPS Map, GPS navigation, how to find pokemon, If microsoft designed a car, playing pokemon go, Pokemon, pokemon and drive, pokemon map, pokemon on a map, pokemon risk, Tesla, Tesla Crash, tesla harbour bridge, where to find pokemon, where to find pokenon
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