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Do you diligently obey posted speed limits? Do you usually do 5 mph over, or are you a real devil-may-care 10 over kinda guy? Do you turn right on red lights when possible, or always wait for the light to turn green? When presented with slower moving vehicles ahead of you, do you overtake when possible
or just suck it up and accept your fate? All of these different driving behaviors form a learnable pattern over time and make up your personal driving style, which can greatly affect the time it takes to get places.
So this would be a navigation app, similar to Google Maps, Apple Maps, etc that uses learning algorithms to figure out what kind of driver you are, and looks at things like traffic density along your route to figure out what sorts of time saving techniques you're likely to use if possible as well as the likelihood that you'll be able to use those techniques to save time based on real world conditions, and incorporates that data into your projected ETA. "It would take MOST people 20 minutes to make this trip, but the way YOU drive, you'll probably get there in 16 or 17 minutes."
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Could get this funded by the insurance companies, they'd love that info. |
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Some insurance companies offer a discount if you install one of those OBD2 port things in your car that collects exactly that kind of data. They also measure things like hard braking, rapid acceleration, and high-G turns. That's what tells me this can be done, and it'd be nice for the end user to get some actual benefit from it beyond saving a few bucks a month. |
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I thought goggle maps already did this (apart from the announcement at the end) |
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If it does, then it's terrible at it because I consistently beat the times it gives me. |
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Well maybe that's the answer then, anything like this will be terrible at it, but the marketing department will make it sound quite convincingly useful and practical |
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