Does your model for future health-care spending account for driverless cars? – The Washington Post 2012-03-24 ”What’s the chance that, in 25 years, I and everyone I know will be wearing something that’s constantly feeding an enormous stream of physical data to some cloud-like server farm for constant analysis?” I asked him. “99 percent,” he replied. “And the 1 percent is that the Earth gets hit by an asteroid before then.” via Does ...

Driverless Cars To Reduce Health Care Costs? – Driverless Car HQ 2012-03-16 Advances in information processing mean driverless cars are coming, and fast. If you live in the Bay Area, actually, they’re already here. Let’s say — and I don’t know if this is optimistic or pessimistic — that full adoption of driverless cars could cut the number of accidents in half. via Driverless Cars To Reduce Health Care ...

Lots of trouble – MIT News Office 2012-03-15 In a new book, an MIT urban planner rethinks the mundane, ubiquitous parking lot. via Lots of trouble – MIT News Office. MIT course 11 prof, Ben-Joseph Rethinking the parking lot for urban planners/designers/architects Plant trees and subsequently using less asphalt, think about drivers becoming pedestrians when they park, incorporating green technology

Cadillac Gets Smart – Technology Review 2012-02-25 Before we get to cars that drive themselves, we’ll first have cars like the XTS, which sort of drive themselves. The XTS’s system uses ultrasonic sensors, radar, cameras, and positioning technologies to help drivers avoid crashes. The XTS will also offer full-speed range adaptive cruise control, smart brake assist, rear automatic braking, lane departure warning, ...

Traffic intersections of the future will control autonomous vehicles | KurzweilAI 2012-02-25 Intersections of the future won’t need stop lights or stop signs. They’ll look like a somewhat chaotic flow of driverless, autonomous cars slipping past one another as they are managed by a virtual traffic controller, says computer scientist Peter Stone, a professor of computer science at The University of Texas at Austin. via Traffic intersections of the future will control ...

Sebastian Thrun Resigns from Stanford – Driverless Car HQ 2012-02-25 In a surprising move, and a blow to the nascent driverless car industry, Sebastian Thrun has resigned from Stanford to take up a position with Udacity, an online educator. via Sebastian Thrun Resigns from Stanford – Driverless Car HQ. Sebatian Thrun is no longer at Google/Stanford! o__O;

Nation’s best salary deals are in the Pilbara | The Australian 2012-02-25 FAR from having the "blood, sweat and tears" sucked out of them by Rio Tinto, the mining giant’s blue-collar workforce in the Pilbara are paid more on average than their white-collar comrades in Sydney’s exclusive Mosman and Double Bay. via Nation's best salary deals are in the Pilbara | The Australian. WHAT? Train drivers for Rio Tinte ...