Transportation news, curated through an EECS lense. Special interest and emphasis on autonomous vehicles, scalable solutions, cost-efficient transit (e.g. busses), innovations in infrastructure, security, IU/UX, and insights into the behavioral/legal/ethical aspects.
US Census Bureau 2012-02-17 Motor Vehicle Accidents and Fatalities data and reports via US Census Bureau.
Automated Driving: Legislative and Regulatory Action – CyberWiki 2012-02-17 This page tracks legislative and regulatory developments related to automated driving, automatic driving, autonomous driving, self-driving vehicles, and driverless cars via Automated Driving: Legislative and Regulatory Action – CyberWiki. Legislation related to automated driving.
Career Focus: The Real Steel — Robotics Careers Ready to Boom 2012-02-16 Do you have a robot in your home or office yet? If not, you probably will soon. The robotics industry is in a major growth mode, not only in terms of sales, but also in size. At the same time, it is also creating growth around itself. According to a November 2011 report from the ...
Five reasons the robo-car haters are wrong (Wired UK) 2012-02-15 The self-driving cars we’ve been promised since the dawn of the auto age are here. Google’s amazing robo-Prius hybrids have racked up more than 200,000 miles on public roads. Luxury cars boast gadgets that do everything but steer the car for you. And General Motors has predicted we’ll see autonomous tech in showrooms by 2020. via ...
Supreme Court Court Rejects Willy-Nilly GPS Tracking | Threat Level | Wired.com 2012-02-15 The convoluted decision (.pdf) in what is arguably the biggest Fourth Amendment case in the computer age, rejected the Obama administration’s position that attaching a GPS device to a vehicle was not a search. The government had told the high court that it could even affix GPS devices on the vehicles of all members of the Supreme Court, ...
A chat with the A3-man.. | BITS APOGEE 2012 Blog 2012-02-01 The first project is being designed with the objective of providing information to a car-driver, regarding blind turns, traffic at cross roads and also aid him during times of lessened visibility. It can be used to inform drivers about the speed and direction of incoming vehicles. With further advancements in the technology we could even be ...
Stats about all US cities – real estate, relocation info, crime, house prices, cost of living, races, home value estimator, recent sales, income, photos, schools, maps, weather, neighborhoods, and more 2012-01-31 We’ve collected and analyzed data from numerous sources to create as complete and interesting profiles of all U.S. cities as we could. via Stats about all US cities – real estate, relocation info, crime, house prices, cost of living, races, home value estimator, recent sales, income, photos, schools, maps, weather, neighborhoods, and more. Urban life data
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