My daughter who lives in Boston sent me this link to a local bus
company that shows where its buses are in real time, on the map:
<http://masco.transloc.com/>http://masco.transloc.com/
This is the kind of thing that could have been done years ago but no
one thought to do it. In retrospect it is an obvious application of
internet and GPS technology: easy and cheap to implement and useful
to the customers. I expect the bus company has been tracking its
drivers for a long time, although I was surprised to find the other
day that a local FedEx truck was not equipped with a GPS map.
Many technical problems can be solved more easily than people
realize. Often the hardest part is to convince people to try something new.
- Jed
