Guest Post by William Messerschmidt, Messerschmidt Safety Consultants
In April 2010, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) announced a proposed rule that would require trucking companies with repeated violations of Hours of Service (HOS) rules to install electronic onboard recorders (EOBRs). These EOBRs would replace paper “log books,” ensuring compliance .Read more...
The Associated Press looks at the pros and cons of speed cameras on I-95 in Ridgeland, South Carolina.
The cameras have nabbed thousands of motorists, won accolades from highway safety advocates, attracted heated opposition from state lawmakers and sparked a federal court challenge.
Ridgeland Mayor Gary Hodges said the cameras in his .Read more...
The Cirque du Soleil entertainment company is famous for some of the world’s best performers, musicians, and stage productions. They also have a legacy for some of the world’s most remarkable engineering projects. Take for example, the 150-ton hydraulic stage they commissioned for the MGM Grand Show ‘KA‘. The marvel was .Read more...
The New York Times looks at Captchas, those annoying security features you must defeat before Ticketmaster will release your Justin Bieber tickets. The technology is now being used to reverse decipher Old World fonts. Captchas is short for “completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart”.
The set of software .Read more...
Great traffic infographic via How We Drive.
Sprint and Location Labs announced the introduction of Sprint Drive First, a new safe-driving solution designed to help eliminate distracted driving. A Sprint press release explains the details.
Sprint plans to make Drive First available in the third quarter of 2011 on AndroidTM mobile phones for Sprint customers and will require .Read more...
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PBS and Frontline recently premiered a disturbing documentary examining the coroner profession called ‘Post-Mortem’. “A dysfunctional system in which there are few standards, little oversight, and the mistakes .Read more...
Wired magazine reports on the latest developments regarding tablet devices in cockpits of America’s planes:
The Federal Aviation Administration is allowing charter company Executive Jet Management to use Apple’s tablet as an approved alternative to paper charts. The authorization follows three months of rigorous testing and evaluation of .Read more...
Our previous reporting on small-scale school spirit focused on using lithium-beam lithography to etch a school logo. Nanoweek.com reports on a team at Brigham Young University growing tiny BYU logos from carbon molecules.
Here is how BYU physics professor Robert Davis and his student Taylor Wood do it: They start by patterning .Read more...
We first reported on NASA’s eBay moment over a year ago, but the competition to land (or launch?) one of the remaining space shuttles is reaching a fever pitch leading up to an April 12 announcement.
The shuttles Endeavour, Atlantis, and Discovery are still up for grabs as 21 museums want .Read more...
Traffic from Ken Hoyle on Vimeo.
This time lapse video from Ken Hoyle shows Orlando, Florida traffic and landscapes. Orlando’s metro population is now over 2 million residents.
Eric A. Morris at the Freakonomics Blog tries to answer the following: “The highway patrol exists for a reason: theoretically, by deterring dangerous driving, it’s supposed to keep us safer on the roadways. Does it?”
Attempts to measure the effects of adding substantial numbers of police or state troopers (most common in election years) .Read more...
