NBC News reports on Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s efforts to curb distracted driving.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood called on Thursday for a federal law to ban talking on a cell phone or texting while driving any type of vehicle on any road in the country.
Tough federal legislation is the only .Read more...
Skyscraperpage.com looks at America’s tallest buildings with the pending completion of the new ‘One World Trade Center’.
Dr. Eric G. Meyer with William Addis, a senior in biomedical engineering, preformed femur fracture testing on April 18. They did 12 experiments at Henry Ford Museum with Matt Goodwin the Roundhouse Supervisor. He drove a diesel train over several bones from two directions (medial and lateral) with the bones .Read more...
Chicago made waves this week with a new initiative for eliminating traffic deaths.
The city of Chicago’s transportation department, headed by commissioner Gabe Klein, hasreleased a new “action agenda” called “Chicago Forward.” It contains a goal that, as far as I know, has never to date been explicitly embraced by a major United .Read more...
Fast Company highlights Volvo’s new technology.
Google’s self-driving cars may be out on the road already, but it will take awhile before public is truly ready to give up all driving control to artificial intelligence. In the interim, Volvo has a solution that lets drivers (sometimes) sleep at the wheel while .Read more...
A new infographic gives us the basics for NASCAR.
Illustration credit: Quicken Loans
The New York Times looks at veterans returning home and struggling at the wheel.
For thousands of combat veterans, driving has become an ordeal. Once their problems were viewed mainly as a form of road rage or thrill seeking. But increasingly, erratic driving by returning troops is being identified as a .Read more...
