The BBC is reporting that Seoul taxi drivers may now use dashboard televisions:
The city’s tortuous congestion led taxi drivers to install new mobile TV systems in an attempt to beat boredom. Watching TV while driving was a factor in 200 accidents last year, police say. Three .Read more...
Boston.com reports that the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is set to fire up the Large Hadron Collider.
The 27 km (17 mi) particle accelerator was launched last year, but suffered a failure from a faulty electrical connection, damaging 53 of the smasher’s 9,300 superconducting magnets. Repairs are now completed, .Read more...
The Swedish engineer Nils Bohlin is credited with inventing the three-point seat belt restraint in 1959 while working at Volvo. The Volvo PV544 was the first car delivered to a dealer with a three-point seat belt and today three-point restraints are standard on most cars around the world.
A Guide to Highway Interchanges
A great civil engineering bookmark is the two part study of highway interchanges at ‘The Infrastructurist’ (Part 1 and Part 2).
We can’t recommend enough The Infrastructurist as a blog in the fields of structural engineering, and civil engineering. They seem to be particularly big proponents of .Read more...
MADD Victim Services has some new video online with their new tag line: “We know how a drunk-driving crash follows you.”
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Mortality caused by road traffic injury by country. Deep red represents 77 accidents per 100,000 population. Light green represents less than 10 accidents per 100,000 population.
Great post over at ‘How We Drive‘ about this interesting graphic.
Current World mortality caused by road traffic injury: 20.95 per 100,000 population.
And there’s another way .Read more...
Gizmodo has some great photos of the new Hoover Dam Bypass under construction just down river from the Hoover Dam (or Boulder Dam as it was first known). The $240 million project is set to open in 2010.
From the official Hoover Dam Bypass website:
Construction of the Colorado River Bridge is .Read more...
Driving while texting (DWT) laws have been passed around the country prohibiting talking on cell phones or requiring hands-free devices.
A new New York Times/CBS News poll reports that 97% of Americans believe that texting while driving should be illegal.
A NY Times article today discusses prison terms being handed out in .Read more...
