Wired.com looks at ‘what the media are calling “the world’s most expensive car accident” and the cops are calling “a gathering of narcissists.”’.
The massive mess destroyed about $3.85 million worth of lustworthy cars and a Toyota Prius late Sunday morning on rain-soaked Chugoku Expressway. The supercars were part of a .Read more...
Brian T. Weaver, P.E. and Steve A. Rundell, Ph.D., P.E., featured in a Gannett news article regarding the new Detroit Office.
This engineering application known as “injury causation analysis” can be explained in simple terms, said Weaver: “In order to understand the injury, you have to understand the event.”
Yet there’s no denying the complexity .Read more...
Gizmodo, of all blogs, reports on the expanded use of 3D laser scanners by police in the UK.
In the UK as in the US, a car wreck involving injuries or fatalities must be painstakingly recorded and preserved for insurance and court proceedings. Police investigators might block off the roadway for .Read more...
The New York Times discusses those announcements to turn off your electronic devices:
Passengers are taking an increasing array of devices on board planes — cellphones, tablets, GPS units and more. Many of these devices transmit a signal, and all of them emit electromagnetic waves, which, in theory, .Read more...
BC Business Online looks at two British Columbia accident reconstruction firms:
With offices also in Ontario and California and a staff of 54, MEA is part of a small community of B.C. forensic engineering companies internationally recognized for investigating disasters such as collapsed buildings, equipment failures, police .Read more...
A new DNA spray may be the future of matching criminals to the scene of a crime:
When the McDonald’s down from City Hall here was burglarized a few years ago, its managers decided they needed a new security system.
It was just about that time that local police officers were offering .Read more...
New York designer Tina Roth Eisenberg profiles photographer Arnold Odermatt:
Swiss police officer and photographer Arnold Odermatt became famous in his retirement on the publication of Karambolage, his photographic journal about the traffic accidents that were part of his professional life in the Swiss canton of Nidwalden.
Arriving at .Read more...
Some exciting developments in the field of three-dimensional renderings from the New York Times:
Computer science researchers at the University of Washington and Cornell University are deploying a system that will blend teamwork and collaboration with powerful graphics algorithms to create three-dimensional renderings of buildings, neighborhoods and potentially even entire cities.
The .Read more...
The one year anniversary of Flight 1549 reminds us of the remarkable landing with both a Sully book tour and a survivor reunion at the crash site. Not much has been written about the actually NTSB accident investigation–it seems damage from the birds was confirmed in both engines:
Federal safety officials .Read more...
The New York Times presented an in-depth review of highway work zone safety and related accidents today. The article, entitled “Efforts Lag at Making Highway Work Zones Safer,” discussed some of the current issues:
The deadly accident was one of thousands in highway work zones across the country that have killed .Read more...
The Transportation Department is reporting a significant drop in the number of deaths on American roads. The risk of dying in a collision on an American road has dropped 18% since 2005. The primary reason may be the continued improvements in automotive safety, but a number of factors contribute to .Read more...
