Google Now claims to do this. I am not sure how they derive their estimates, or how accurate their estimates are. Some of the boilerplate in their Terms of Service suggests that they might be calculating this based on the GPS locations of cars in traffic.
On April 1, 2015 4:54:09 PM CDT, Kent Perrier <[email protected]> wrote: > Google Now? > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Chris McQuistion > <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I was thinking on the drive to work this morning how helpful it > would be > > to have an app on my computer or phone that would give me a number, > right > > now, for how long it will take to drive home (getting data from > Google Maps > > or something). > > > > If there was just a little window on my desk or an app on my phone > that I > > could glance at, see that it is currently going to take 57 minutes > to drive > > home, that would be awesome. > > > > If the app could also have an notification threshold to let me know > when > > the estimated drivetime drops below a certain threshold, then that > would be > > awesome and I would just stay at work and keep working until the > estimated > > drivetime drops below 35 minutes > > > > Something like this seems like a really practical tool that a lot of > > people could use. If I was any kind of coder, I would whip this up > and > > make a million dollars. Alas, I can't program my way out of a paper > bag. > > I have ideas and I convince smart people (like Curt) to make them > happen ;-) > > > > Of course, maybe something like this already exists and I just > haven't > > heard of it. > > > > What do you think? > > > > Chris > > > > -- > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "NLUG" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "NLUG" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > send an > > email to [email protected]. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
