KABC TV Teaming with Social Traffic/Navigation Waze to Prepare for "carmageddon"

In April I was caught in a massive traffic jam caused by a car jacker who fled the car and was shot by police. It was a literal “parking lot.” I was able to to obey local traffic laws by turning off my engine, step out of the car and use my iPhone and Windows Phone to look at various traffic apps. Inexplicably every service (Bing, Google, Inrix) showed all roads as green even though everyone had been stuck for a half-hour or more up to this point.