ATLANTA — Your cellphone will soon help speed up your morning drive as the state looks to use sensors along Roswell Road in Sandy Springs to track phones.
The technology uses Bluetooth on cellphones to provide real-time traffic information.
Georgia Department of Transportation Spokeswoman Natalie Dale said the department hopes the new technology in the corridor will ease traffic congestion.
It detects signals from Bluetooth devices either in your car or on your cellphone. Officials stress they are not able to read the content on your Bluetooth device, just scanning to help plot traffic patterns.
Dale said special sensors then send data back telling them how many cars are on the road at a given time.
"How fast traffic is moving, where jams are, where there's bumper to bumper traffic," Dale said.
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