Students at Island University Help Create a Weather/Travel App
Author: Jonathan Munson
There are about one million weather related crashes every year nation wide.
That's why undergrads and professors at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi worked to create a new app called "Weather on Wheels"
A&M Research Professor Philippe Tissot said, "there are other products,but ours is directly focused on the road trip, it's the only thing that it does we tried to make it fun to use and pretty unique in that sense."
It's an app that tracks the weather as you travel! The app gathers data from Google routes and weather forecasts from the National Weather Service to give you a look at the weather for the time you will reach your destination.
David Fonseca with the Business Innovation Center said, "this is the first time were using an app to be commercialized and what I can tell you is it very interesting to see the business students working with the technology students and each one recognizes the importance of their fields and create something as good as what we have created so far."
The app is free to use and you can try it out by going to weatheronwheels.com