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These SF Billboards Are Now Plastered With Photos of Distracted Drivers
Blown away by how many people use their cell phones on the freeway, San Francisco graphic designer Brian Singer came up with a new way to raise awareness of the risky behavior. Atlantic Cities tells...
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Tiny Tracker Texts You if Someone Steals — Or Touches — Your Motorcycle
Motorcycle ownership comes with its fair share of advantages and compromises. Riding among texting teens driving two-ton SUVs is just part of the risk. Parking your bike poses its own problems, with...
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Apple Patents Driver Distraction Lockdown Mode For iPhones
Apple has been granted a new patent by the USPTO (via AppleInsider), and it’s one that could potentially prevent a lot of careless driving. The tech described in the patent would use a phone’s...
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How Do You Make Roads Safer For Bikes? Nix Drivers
Self-driving cars are better at responding to pedestrians and cyclist. Then there’s that road rage thing. Fast Company reports. he best way to accomplish Vision Zero–the ambitious plan currently...
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The Robot Car of Tomorrow May Just Be Programmed to Hit You
Suppose that an autonomous car is faced with a terrible decision to crash into one of two objects. It could swerve to the left and hit a Volvo sport utility vehicle (SUV), or it could swerve to the...
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A Trip in a Self-Driving Car Now Seems Routine
Google’s self-driving cars, a noticeable behavioral quirk that the Lexus exhibited was that it seemed to change lanes with emphasis, avoiding the gradual meandering from one lane to the next as a...
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Pentagon’s Superpowered Autopilot Will Do the Work of 5 Crew Members
The Pentagon’s research arm is developing a sophisticated, drop-in autopilot that can replace as many as five crew members of a military aircraft, and turn the pilot into a high-level “mission...
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These Mouse-Inspired “Whiskers” Give Cyclists A Temporary Bike Lane
Inspired by cats and mice, students competing in a biomimicry design challenge found a unique way to signal that a cyclist needs some space on the road. Fast Company shares this story. Even though...
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If Robots Drove, How Much Safer Would Roads Be?
How much safer would driving be if robots replaced humans on the roads? NY Times looks at this story. It has been hard to estimate because fully autonomous cars are not yet available to test. Google...
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How Today’s F1 Cars Are So Amazingly Safe (And Horribly Uncomfortable)
If you saw Kimi Raikkonen hit a wall at 150 mph during the British Grand Prix, you appreciate how remarkably strong, and safe, a modern Formula 1 car is. The Ferrari driver experienced a 47G impact...
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