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Are crowdsourced maps the future of navigation?
Telenav hasn’t just hired OpenStreetMap founder Steve Coast away from Microsoft; the navigation company plans to wean itself entirely off of proprietary cartography, relying solely on OSM’s collaborative, crowdsourced and freely available maps.
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It only makes sense that the more data you can collect and/or display, the better the information is that's provided.
All irrelevant once we get self driving cars that can automatically communicate with all the other cars, thus essentially eliminating congestion by always being synced with the rest of the traffic.
That won't be for another 50 years. At least.
They already have self driving cars. I'd say 10-20 realistically.
Much longer than that. First you have to get all the manual driven cars off the roads, and I don't see that happening for a LONG time.