check_autobahn_traffic
Check live traffic on up to 5 German motorways: current jams, slow traffic, closures, roadworks, delays, and speeds. Use for what is happening on the road right now.
Instructions
Returns jams, slow traffic, closures and roadworks in force this minute on up to 5 German motorways, with delay and speed. Use when the question is about the road now: Stau, a delay, how it looks, or which closures are reported; name every motorway (Munich→Berlin: A9). Do NOT use for whether a road is open or passable — check_road_status at any clock — nor a closure with no time word or a later one (tonight, the weekend); for Baustellen dated or geplant — find_roadworks_ahead; nor city streets, fuel (find_cheapest_fuel) or trains (get_train_departures). ~5 min old. Show the attribution line.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| kinds | No | Which event kinds to return: warning = live traffic (jams, slow traffic, hazards), closure = full closures, roadworks = construction sites. Set it when the SUBJECT of the question is one of those categories by name: "Baustellen auf der A8?" is ["roadworks"], "welche Sperrungen sind in diesem Moment gemeldet?" is ["closure"]. Omit it when the question is how the road IS — Stau, frei, a delay, "wie sieht es aus", "everything"; the German "Stau?" is the idiom for the whole picture, and a filter nobody asked for hides the closure on the same stretch. Whether a closure question is this tool's at all is decided by two things, and the noun (Sperrung, Vollsperrung, closure) is neither. FIRST THE CLOCK: only a question about this minute (jetzt, gerade, in diesem Moment, right now, at this very minute) can be this tool's — with no time word at all, or for a later window (tonight, heute Abend, am Wochenende, the coming days), it is check_road_status. SECOND, WHAT IS ASKED, which the clock cannot see: what is REPORTED or in force on a named motorway is this tool ("ist auf der A5 in diesem Moment eine Vollsperrung gemeldet?", "which closures are in force on the A100 at this very minute?"), while whether the road is OPEN or passable is check_road_status AT ANY CLOCK — "ist die A8 offen", "ist die A3 in diesem Moment gesperrt?", "komme ich da durch?" — and so is a closure asked around a town instead of on a motorway number. Baustellen with a date or the word geplant are find_roadworks_ahead. Default: all three. | |
| limit | No | Maximum events to return across all roads (1–50, default 10). Roads keep the order you listed them; within a road, jams come first, then closures and roadworks. | |
| roads | Yes | Autobahn numbers, e.g. ["A9"] or ["A8", "A99", "A9"] (1–5 per call). Name every motorway on the route so the whole drive is briefed in one call — "A9", "A 9" and "a9" are the same road. Results are grouped per road, in the order you list them. | |
| cursor | No | Pagination cursor from a previous result's _meta.nextCursor. Omit for the first page. | |
| language | No | Set this on every call to the language the person is writing in: "en" if they wrote English, "de" if they wrote German. Do not leave it out because it has a default — the default is only the fallback when the language is genuinely unclear, and an English question answered in German is a wrong answer. Place names, station names and road numbers are never translated in either language; in English the German term is kept in parentheses so the person recognises it on signs and in local apps. | de |