--- title: Five Best: Traffic Apps Might Be Making Traffic Worse description: Traffic apps might be making traffic worse, could there be a treatment for the social deficits related to autism and more. canonical: https://time.com/5205433/traffic-apps-might-be-making-traffic-worse/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-03-19T16:00:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:57:59.982Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Traffic Apps Might Be Making Traffic Worse og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/5205433/traffic-apps-might-be-making-traffic-worse/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Traffic Apps Might Be Making Traffic Worse twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Traffic Apps Might Be Making Traffic Worse by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 19, 2018 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 19, 2018 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Traffic apps like Waze and Google Maps might be making traffic worse.**](https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/why-traffic-apps-make-congestion-worse) By Robert Sanders at the _University of California Berkeley_ **2\.** [**Could there be a treatment for the social deficits related to autism?**](http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2018/03/012.html) By Ellen Goldbaum at the _University at Buffalo_ **3\.** [**The information age is over. Welcome to the reputation age.**](https://aeon.co/ideas/say-goodbye-to-the-information-age-its-all-about-reputation-now) By Gloria Origgi in _Aeon_ **4\.** [**What can we learn from Einstein’s self-doubt?**](https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-einstein-lost-his-bearings-and-with-them-general-relativity-20180314/) By Kevin Hartnett in _Quanta_ **5\.** [**This technology aims to help teachers decode the thinking of young math students.**](http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2018/03/computers-may-help-k-8-math-teachers-understand-students-thought-processes) By Leslie Morris at the _Cornell Chronicle_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5205433/traffic-apps-might-be-making-traffic-worse/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5205433/traffic-apps-might-be-making-traffic-worse/"},"headline":"Traffic Apps Might Be Making Traffic Worse","datePublished":"2018-03-19T16:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:57:59.982Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5205433/traffic-apps-might-be-making-traffic-worse/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Autism","Education","apps","Einstein"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5205433/traffic-apps-might-be-making-traffic-worse/","name":"Traffic Apps Might Be Making Traffic Worse"}}]}] ```