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Los Angeles Traffic Cam Brings Live Gridlocks to Your Cellphone

by Darren Murph on June 29, 2008 at 04:08 PM


We have all ideas (okay, so we know it for a fact) that the Los Angeles Traffic Cam was designed for those living in LA, but we can't help but imagine how drivers in less congested cities could use this to make their own daily commute not seem so bad.

NBC4 and 3rd Dimension have teamed up to beam out live video and nearly live still shots from some 270 LA-area traffic cameras to those with compatible mobiles, and being that it's ad-supported, the whole thing is completely free to end users. Of course, for all you know, they could just loop a clip of gridlocked traffic during rush hour and call it reality. Sadly, said idea would almost work. [Source: LATimes Blogs]

Tags: 3rd dimension, 3rdDimension, ad-based, california, cctv, Los Angeles, LosAngeles, nbc4, traffic, traffic cam, traffic jam, TrafficCam, TrafficJam

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