IBM announces five transportation innovations

IBM revealed here Friday five innovations that have the potential to change the way people travel.
IBM said that these next generation transport innovations would revolve around drive-assist technologies, intelligent traffic systems using sensor technologies, advanced mass transit systems connected to mobile phones, ultra sophisticated voice recognition systems and smart airport system.
"We believe these innovations will be available within the next few years. Some of them, such as the traffic notifications via cell phone and intelligent traffic systems using sensor technologies are already in limited use, but all of these innovations are being worked on today in IBM's Research labs," Dr. Daniel Dias, Director of IBM's India Research Laboratory, said at a press conference here.
IBM said, through these innovations, vehicles will exchange information with each other and with the road infrastructure, take corrective action where appropriate, and provide essential feedback to the drivers.
Meanwhile, increasingly sophisticated voice recognition systems will allow drivers to get real-time flight updates, read and respond to emails, get directions, avoid accidents, play DVDs or select music through simple, conversational voice commands.
27/07/07 Xinhua/People's Daily Online, China

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