The Wall Street Journal looks at getting directions in a digital age:
Every day, Google users spend more than a million hours browsing Google Maps and Earth, and more than 750,000 sets of directions are printed from MapQuest. Since AAA launched its TripTik mobile application in spring 2010, it has been .Read more...
The Wall Street Journal examines the effect of new technologies on automotive safety.
On one hand…
General Motors Co. this spring will release an 8-inch, touch-screen display for online applications, navigation and music that can be activated through voice, touch or steering wheel controls.Ford Motor Co. already allows drivers to receive Twitter feeds and .Read more...
Tom Vanderbilt from Slate.com looks at the counter-intuitive nature of lowering speed limits to decrease travel times.
But one thing that tends to be lost on the individual driver, who through the proscenium of his windshield commands what he believes to be an empirically incontrovertible perspective on the ground truth of .Read more...
