Rather, wi-fi enabled vehicles would be able to communicate vital real-time information with each other to help reduce traffic congestion and avoid accidents.
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Companies who are building their own managed intranets, such as Delta Three and Qwest, with its ultra-high capacity fibre network, will avoid congestion.
These allow the operator greater control over quality by cutting down the number of router hops the packets have to pass through and managing traffic flows to avoid congestion.
If you scale these communication patterns and now add to this, traffic which requires every device to talk to every other device across the whole switch network (which is often the case), multiple routes within the network are required to avoid congestion.
Even with advances in GPS navigation, real-time traffic alerts and mapping, daily commute times are often unreliable, and relevant updates on how to avoid congestion often reach commuters when they are already stuck in traffic and it is too late to change course.
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There are an estimated 2.5 million blue badges in circulation, allowing drivers to park on yellow lines as well as avoid parking and congestion charges.
But imposing such a lifestyle to avoid the harm allegedly caused by congestion is social planning of a highly intrusive sort.
Police urged drivers to avoid the M20 and A20 because of severe congestion between the Roundhill Tunnel at Folkestone and the Eastern Docks.
British tourists may avoid the capital, fearing high prices and congestion.
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Some fans set off from London very early in the morning on Saturday to avoid the motorway queues, but still reported heavy congestion at service stations along the route.
"Those embassies that flout the law of this country and misuse diplomatic immunity to avoid the charge are enjoying the benefits of reduced congestion but contributing nothing, " said a spokesman.
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By communicating with other cars, as well as with road signs and traffic lights, vehicles will not only be able to avoid most accidents, but will also move more smoothly through traffic, reducing congestion.
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