Everything You Need to Prepare for a Long Road Trip
Yaara Lancet, lifehacker.comI love road trips. Just saying or writing the words sends shivers of excitement down my spine. If you think I’m crazy, it’s probably because you grew up in a country where road trips are taken for granted, and the number of places you can drive to…
Road Tripping In The Digital Age
Ryan Lawler, techcrunch.comI’m just wrapping up a week-long road trip, in which a travel companion and I visited some friends in Southern California. We hit up a few different spots along the way, including San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, San…
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Drawing upon a growing network of sensors embedded on our roadways several new books and articles show that once again few studies were done into actual human behavior before designing the conduits which we spend most of our waking hours in: our national roadways. Discoveries reveal that for example the $15 Big Dig project in Boston actually increased traffic in the suburbs (average commute times have doubled in some areas) while reducing it downtown (it just moved the bottle necks outward). Also, speed bumps are worthless because drivers just speed up between them.
This interesting book looks at traffic from a usability/behavioral perspective. For example it notes that speed bumps were proven worthless because drivers speed up between them to make up time!
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