Step aside, Waze. Data analytics firm Inrix — which provides connected car services to companies like Audi, BMW, Lexus, Mercedes-Benz, and Porsche — just completely revamped its traffic app, which now uses machine-learning technology to predict and personalize your routes and alerts.
Available for iOS and Android, the new version of Inrix Traffic learns your routes and preferences as you go about your daily business, and automatically adds favorite places, saving you from having to manually input destinations like home, work, or school. Based on your activities, it creates a "daily, driver-specific itinerary of anticipated trips," and tells you when to leave to get there on time. It also integrates with your calendar, and can add events with addresses to your daily driving itinerary so you don't have to.
The app uses OpenStreetMap for map data and Inrix's crowd-sourced network of more than 275 million vehicles and devices to deliver real-time traffic information. It monitors road conditions and can tell you ideal departure times, changes to arrival times, and optimal routes based on real-time traffic.
"We designed Inrix Traffic with one specific vision: To help drivers move through their daily lives as quickly and efficiently as possible," Inrix President and CEO Bryan Mistele said in a statement. "The app uses our advanced traffic science to make even routine trips easier. Users want an app that is accurate, personalized and smart enough to work proactively for them — so we've integrated several highly advanced technologies into one all-encompassing app."
The app is available in the App Store and Google Play in eight languages and 16 countries across North America and Europe, including Canada, France, Germany, Spain, the U.K., and U.S. Inrix said support for additional countries is "coming soon."
Meanwhile, rival navigation app Waze just released an update of its own. The app now notifies motorists when they've exceeded the speed limit.