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Yes. To clarify for everyone else, he means this:

http://www.dash.net/

and it works exactly the way that Seth describes, even down to Dash users participating to provide real-time traffic updates.

It's an in-car device like a Garmin but internet-oriented. Personally, I'm not sure if it's a viable niche -- it's somewhere in between the Garmin and the iPhone. And the idea of Dash users providing real-time data is obviously a chicken and egg problem.

In any case, maybe Seth's idea was an improvement over radio reports in 2000 but is already behind what Dash, Google Maps or Yahoo maps does today.



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