This post was originally published on our sister site Charged.io, your destination for modern transportation news.
When Nokia sold HERE maps to BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen
last year, we doubt they imagined something like the Open Location
Platform. In conjunction with the already powerful navigation tool that
is now called HERE WeGo, the automotive companies are adding detailed
live traffic info to the software.
Coming in 2017, HERE will
compete with services like Waze to provide drivers with detailed traffic
information. Where Waze generally relies on user input, however, HERE
will track things like vehicle location, speeds and even multiple
sensors within the car to provide a more accurate perspective of the
road conditions ahead.
It is not hard to imagine the power of the
HERE Open Location Platform once it is enabled on many cars by these
automakers. Instead of simply tracking the location and speed of cars on
the road, it can register when the brakes have been activated,
indicating a slowdown, or when a vehicle’s wipers are running, a good
indicator of wet conditions. Obviously, the more cars that are equipped
with the service, the more accurate the data can become. There is no
word yet how much data will be extrapolated from those simply using the HERE WeGo app on their Android phone.
Navigation today, autonomy tomorrow
There
is the long term goal with HERE Open Location Platform to support and
lead to more and better assisted driver systems, and even self-driving
initiatives. While we wait, any help avoiding a traffic jam on the roads
is extremely helpful, so we look forward to seeing where HERE gets to.
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