Siemens has a nice picture showing future transportation system, probably under cooperative vehicle infrastructure systems. An article can be found at here.
Archive for July, 2008
Picture of the future transportation system
July 31, 2008
Deploma mill degree recipients
July 31, 2008
The Spokemanreview just released over 9,000 names who purchased a fake or counterfeit high school or university degrees. More information can be found at here. Shame on them!
Lower your insurance cost with tracking device in your vehicle
July 29, 2008
At least, drivers in NJ have a way to lower their auto insurance costs. When you sign-up and install a tracking device that measures miles driven, and acceleration/deceleration behaviors, the progressive insurance company will lower your cost up to 60% or increase it up to 9% depending on how you drive your car. It is [...]
$140 billion price tag for repairing US Bridges
July 29, 2008
A study shows that the average age of US bridges is 43, while most bridges were built to last for 50 years. About 20% bridges are older than 50, and probably need immediate attention for quick repair and/or replacement. The story also indicated that 5 major problems for nation’s 590,000 bridges are age, congestion, soaring [...]
Randy Pausch Archives
July 29, 2008
Professor Randy Pausch passed away this morning (Friday, July 25, 2008). Please see the news at: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Story?id=4614281&page=1
If you haven’t seen the lecture:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo&feature=PlayList&p=BCD362F95A724D1E&index=4
Randy Pausch gave a commencement speech at the CMU graduation ceremony (with Al Gore warming up the crowd for him. http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Randy_Graduation_2008.html.
ABC’s “Good Morning America” ran a TV segment on it: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Randy_GMA_2008.html.
