The Washington Post reports on the jumped of teenage highway death in 2012
Teenagers are dying in car crashes at a much higher rate, particularly 16- and 17-year-olds. Their death rate jumped 19 percent nationwide, with 240 killed in the first six months of last year, according to a report by the .Read more...
TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Armstrong Forensic Engineers (Armstrong) today announced the addition of fire investigation and thermal analysis to its forensic engineering services and the hiring of Senior Consultant Charles O. Funk, Ph.D., P.E., CFEI, CVFI and Lead Research Specialist Jody Ewers, J.D., M.L.I.S. in its office in Detroit, Michigan.
“We are pleased to .Read more...
TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 7, 2012 / /PRNewswire/ – Armstrong Forensic Engineers (Armstrong) today announced the appointment of Christian R. Sax, P.E., as a forensic engineering consultant serving governmental, legal, and insurance clients across Texas and the Southwest.
Based in Austin, Texas, Mr. Sax’s practice focuses on forensic engineering and litigation support in cases involving vehicular collisions. .Read more...
TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Armstrong Forensic Engineers (Armstrong) today announced the opening of a new office in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the hiring of respected forensic engineer Alan F. Asay, P.E., M.S. Armstrong’s presence in Utah complements the firm’s offices in Florida, Illinois, Michigan, and Texas and rounds out its platform for providing Rapid Response inspection services .Read more...
The Wall Street Journal looks at the increasing presence of technology inside the car.
With Americans increasingly glued to devices and their constant flow of information, the auto makers are rolling out what they call the “connected car.” These vehicles can do everything from book a restaurant to delivering Twitter feeds—all at 65 .Read more...
Guest Post by Mark Perkins, Perkins and Associates
While there are statutory maximum speed limits, there are no statutory minimum speed limits in Louisiana. In recent years there have been attempts to institute minimum speed limits but no law has ever been passed setting a minimum speed limit.
The closest thing to a .Read more...
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...
