`Smart cars' will help drivers skip traffic jams

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: April 30, 1990| Author: Ike Flores | Copyright information

ORLANDO, Fla. "Smart cars" that give drivers traffic information on computer screens will soon take to the roads in Florida and California in an experiment aimed at heading off traffic jams on overburdened highways.

Test programs in Los Angeles and Orlando over the next three years will include cars equipped with computer screens using satellite-delivered traffic information from sensor-equipped "smart highways."

They are the start of a combined federal-state, private-and-...

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