How Does Google Traffic Work?

How does Google Traffic keep up with road conditions in so many places?

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[Beisser]

this guy totally looks like the guy from linus tech tips

[stefanmajonez]

3:22 The question "Does Google have a huge database of every trip you take..." baffles me a little - I mean, obviously yes, Google Timeline in the Maps?

[kjkardum]

LinusTechTips: Answering questions nobody asked
TechQuickie: Answering questions that actualy do matter

[gladiatorproart]

This channel is more helpful than Linus tech Tips

[BryanEndres]

I can verify that they log your trips.Google always shows me places that I've visited before, regardless of whether or not I use GPS to get there. After a week at my new job it started telling me what route to take and time to leave to make it there on time, and I didn't ONCE use the GPS to get there. They also email me reports about the new places that I've visited each month, as if I didn't already know that.

[iliketrainspwned]

I've been using Waze for a few years now. Although it really is an awesome GPS, sometimes it likes to pick a route that really takes you on an adventure, especially on road trips. Last year I was driving home from college in Michigan to New Jersey through Canada. As soon as we passed through Buffalo, it took me off the highway and through a network of country roads in western NY. Sure it added an hour onto my trip, but the views of the rolling hills were absolutely beautiful.

[anikkundu]

And here I am sitting in the driver seat in a hour long traffic jam and watching techquickie...What a life!!!

[klophop]

"Google deletes data" haha good one.

[TheDoc]

Tennessee has actually used this at state level. It's TDOT SmartWay and features road conditions for all interstates and major cities, and includes things like construction and all, but also allows the user to view live traffic cams and flooded roads and events that are going on around town. If you're ever here in TN and need to know why I-40 is suddenly at a standstill, I highly recommend looging on (it's a webpage, not an app).

[SuperSamsungman]

Downloading more ram as fast as possible?

[rud]

The overturned maple syrup tanker is one thing, it's when all those damn waffle junkies starts to swarm the wreck, that the real problems start.

[topgearryan]

Please don't ever change TechQuickie, don't force memes into your videos and try to be "cool" (like LTT), I really appreciate these videos especially with my college computing work! Keep it up :-)

[AShifter]

I wish I could be at the crash site of a maple syrup tanker.

[happydr_]

On google maps there is a timeline tab that shows everywhere you have been and at the exact time and it goes back years

[paul_i_us]

I remember reading in a computer magazine about 15 years ago (around 2001) about some university developing technology to measure traffic using mobile phones. My thoughs at that time: "One day that will be very useful"

[anthonypedersen]

Google Traffic is almost entirely what I use Maps for. Really useful alternative to waiting for a cable news or radio update

[BossInvader]

Waze is great, when you travel 20+ miles a day one way for worksites in the Portland Oregon area, it cuts off significant amounts of time by routing me through random neighborhoods and backroads that are empty. As opposed to sitting in a traffic jam, it will warn me ahead of time that traffic has slowed down and to take the next exit or turn at the traffic signal to avoid it, etc. To choose between: Google knows where I drive VS. Getting home/work in half the time.... I'll choose the quicker time.

[PeopleCanFly]

I always have my gps turned off to save battery.

[FizzleFX]

3:10 *you drive with a BROKEN windshield!?* you never get away in germany with that

[TheR]

I don't know if this is an issue elsewhere, but here in Norway we have a lot of public transport, so where buses stop there's always small, seemingly random, patches of red along prefectly green roads.