Dash Express

By Nick Mokey
March 5th, 2008

While in-car GPS technology may have tackled basic geography by letting drivers pinpoint their locations instantly and plot out directions on the fly, gadgetry still hasn’t quite found a way of dealing with that constantly shifting nemesis of drivers everywhere: traffic. Besides the spontaneous and inconsistent reports from traffic helicopters in urban areas, the best that most drivers have to go on to find the clearest route from point A to point B is just a hunch. But a clever solution may be on the horizon.

The Dash Express, an upcoming GPS device from Dash, a Californian startup, will use a new way of plotting traffic patterns and mapping out problem areas. Rather than relying on helicopters and accident reports to inefficiently pipe data down to GPS devices, Dash Express buyers will serve as their own traffic spotters, benefitting from the collective traffic data of every other Express owner on the ...

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