01/09/2011
Goodbye red lights and fuel-inefficiency
Want to drive in a more fuel-efficient way? Hate sitting at red lights? Well, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology may have a way of avoiding red lights and being more fuel-efficient at the same time.
They have come up with an application for smart-phones, called SignalGuru, which, using GPS technology, will help motorists time their approach towards red lights so that they change to green before the driver needs to slow their vehicle to a stop.
This will mean that on top of not having to wait around at traffic lights so often, it will reduce the amount of time the car engine is idling and, as a result, save fuel.
Unfortunately this clever app has only been tested on smart-phones in Massachusetts and Singapore, but the researchers want to make the system commercially available to all drivers in the near future.
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Labels: app, car, engine, fuel-efficient, GPS, idling, motor vehicle, red lights, smart-phone, traffic lights
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