Is there any technical reason it cannot be done in a privacy respecting manner? It should be possible to collect a location and speed from a phone with absolutely no other data attached from the device and store this in a database. This would provide a database of anonymous traffic density in a state of flux. You cannot see which phone is which data point, where it is coming from or where it is going to.
The only real reason I can see this is not done is surveillance capitalism.
Traffic data is an intractable problem for a privacy preserving open source app, would have to be done at the government level
Is there any technical reason it cannot be done in a privacy respecting manner? It should be possible to collect a location and speed from a phone with absolutely no other data attached from the device and store this in a database. This would provide a database of anonymous traffic density in a state of flux. You cannot see which phone is which data point, where it is coming from or where it is going to.
The only real reason I can see this is not done is surveillance capitalism.