Wired’s Autopia looks at a new app that auctions public parking spaces.
Parking Auction launched earlier this week on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The matchmaking service is beta-testing, and the folks behind it hope to expand worldwide, creating communities of relaxed, smartphone-armed parkers.
“If I’m parked on the street and wouldn’t mind moving .Read more...
Freakonomics looks at innovation in NASCAR.
With the exception of a few road course races, most of the NASCAR races are held on ovals. The cars always race counter-clockwise on the ovals, meaning the cars only turn left.
Given all the attention that learning and expertise has been getting, I’m deeply curious .Read more...
Mashable writes about the Future Urban Mobility project from M.I.T. and Singapore looking at new tools available to address transportation concerns in our growing world. One software is called Live Singapore! and is considered “a convergence of art, digital media and information technology”. Another traffic congestion software is called DynaMIT.
So what does .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...
A CBS Radio news report highlighted Armstrong’s new Detroit Office in Milford, MI.
Mayor Bloomberg unveiled New York’s new ‘Midtown in Motion’ traffic system. More from Fast Company:
Midtown in Motion, a $1.6 million real-time traffic management system from NYC’s Department of Transportation, prevents gridlock with a network of sensors and cameras that allows operators to adjust traffic signal patterns on the fly.
Midtown in .Read more...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration website maintains important information about transportation safety. In particular, there is a valuable introduction to EDR’s (or Event Data Recorders). Here is an excerpt:
What is an EDR? What is its purpose?
An Event Data Recorder (EDR) is a function or device installed in a .Read more...
Wired Magazine looks at unique security locations around the world. WikiLeaks, for example:
Where does WikiLeaks keep its secrets? In a former military bunker and nuclear shelter under Stockholm’s city streets. Nicknamed the James Bond Villain Data Center, this 8,000-server facility, which could theoretically withstand a nuclear impact, .Read more...
Chris Bangle, the chief of design for BMW Group, shares his thoughts on cars and art. From the TED website:
American designer Chris Bangle explains his philosophy that car design is an art form in its own right, with an entertaining — and ultimately moving — account of the .Read more...
Michael Seringhaus recently argued in the New York Times to keep everyone’s DNA on file in police databases:
The president was correct in saying that we need a more robust DNA database, available to law enforcement in every state, to “continue to tighten the grip around folks who have .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...
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