My brother and his family live in New Orleans whereas my sister and her family live in nearby Baton Rouge. After spending time together in New Orleans with both sets of families for Mardi Gras, our plan was to visit my sister in Baton Rouge. The Mardi Gras seasons began on January 6 and ended on Tuesday, so my wife and I thought we'd make the trip on Wednesday. My brother warned us that traffic would be terrible, since everyone departing New Orleans for Baton Rouge, Houston, etc. would be traveling on I-10 West. Ignoring his sage advice, I figured it wouldn't be that bad. Rain had also been forecast for Wednesday. I surmised that the only thing that could ruin our plans was bad weather or bad traffic, but no problem, there's an app for that. Looking at the weather on the internet on my iPhone, I did see that the morning would be bad. So we planned our travel around leaving New Orleans at 1:00 PM. Lo and behold, at around 6:00 AM, New Orleans got 3 inches of rain in an hour. source: Megan Lucy Mouton Many streets were flooded; however, by 1:00 PM, things were back to normal. Thanks to the internet, to quote Adam Sandler from Billy Madison, "I am the smartest man alive." Now all that was left to consider was the traffic. So at 1:00 PM I looked at NavTeq.com. This is what I saw: With this information in hand, we embarked on local streets to I-10 West with no problems; however, when we entered I-10, traffic was bumper to bumper. WTF? We would go 10 feet and come to a complete stop. Repeat. We endured this for 50 minutes and had gone less than 10 miles, so we took the next exit and headed back to New Orleans. They say the only thing worse than not having a watch, is having a watch with the wrong time. I think the same thing applies to web-based services. If the site is going to mark the roads as green (light traffic) when they are clearly red (heavy traffic), then what's the point? Thanks to the internet, I guess my older brother is the smartest man alive. At least with the web servcies we provide, we maintain the accuracy provided by our desktop applications. 1. Autodesk Buzzsaw Project Management 2. Autodesk Constructware Construction Management 3. Autodesk Green Building Studio Energy/Sustainability Analysis 4. Autodesk Seek Product content and search 5. AutoCAD WS 2D SaaS CAD and Collaboration 6. Autodesk Homestyler 2D/3D Consumer Home Design & Content 7. Project Showroom Consumer Home Design, Rendering 8. Project Freewheel 2D/3D Drawing Viewing, Collaboration 9. Project Draw 2D Diagramming Tool 10. Project Twitch Rapid Application Delivery, Remoting, Trials 11. Project Vasari Conceptual design for architecture and analysis 12. Project Neon Cloud Rendering Service 13. Daylight Analysis Tool for Housing in China Sustainability analysis based on China permitting codes 14. Project Photofly Cloud Image to Model Computation Service 15. Project Bluestreak Cloud collaboration platform 16. CommunityCommands for AutoCAD Community-based command discovery Venting is alive in the lab. Go to the original post...