A website in San Diego gives the current speed of northbound traffic at eight locations on Highway 805.
But the Bank of England governor, Mark J. Carney, and some economists have warned that the current speed of the recovery, though encouraging, is unlikely to be sustainable.
The Home screen tells you which game is currently installing and how long there is left, while the "Queue" tab gives a visual representation of how the install is going, as well as the current speed of the download.
With less than five months until kick-off, the Arena da Baixada in Curitiba is so far behind schedule that organisers admit it will not be ready for its first match on 16 June at the current speed of work.
He predicted that if the current speed of house price growth continues in 2015, the value of an average property could reach the £300,000 watermark after hitting £250,000 in December 2013.
An analysis of government statistics carried out by the TUC reveals that the current speed of recovery is considerably slower than the economic bounce-back that followed the UK's eight worst recessions dating back to 1830.
Those managing business travellers could, for example, calculate the current speed of security queues and let clients know when it is time to head airside (or, better still, sell them fast-track security).
The device, called an "intelligent speed adaptor," uses Global Positioning System signals to keep track of where the car is; it compares the location and current speed of the vehicle with a map of roads and their speed limits, stored in the device's digital memory.
But "we also need to make sure that any type of trace-back system doesn't slow down the current speed of commerce," she said in an e-mail, adding that the state program had to work "hand in hand with the federal program".
