Linklist: January 11, 2012
Via JM: App for drivers detects and reports potholes automatically : " Developed in partnership with a local professor, the Android app uses the accelerometers and GPS technology in users’ phones to register when and where the user’s car has experienced a pothole."
Via TS: Will Handsfield @- Greater Greater Washington on How will self-driving cars change transportation? :
They'll be more often in use, less often parked
They'll reduce labor costs
They'll expand access to transportation
They'll be safer
They'll reduce congestion
They'll make current transit economics obsolete
They won't last as long
They can be electric
They'll change culture
David Metz @ The Limits To Travel" HS2 [the UK's second HSR line after the Chunnel connection to London] is given government go-ahead.