Blog Heap o'Transport Links 29 May 2014

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Blog-Heap links regarding transportation and related infrastructure,
also energy, because it takes energy to transport,
and virtuality, because telepresence saves on transpresence.

Thu 2014 May 29

Transport

Underpasses, Graveyards, Tunnels, and travel tips
Lynne Terry, OregonLive Thu 2014 May 29, 3:03pm

…19-year-old who held his breath while driving [through a tunnel] and fainted, causing a three-vehicle crash on U.S. 26 that injured four people….

Transport Future

Where Robocars Can Really Take Us
Brad Templeton Thu 2014 May 29, 5:44pm

how computer geeks can enable the electric car, save the planet and millions of lives using near-term A.I. to make taxis and trucks deliver, park, recharge and drive themselves.

h/t: HoboJerky on Ace of Spades

Driverless
Ace of Spades Thu 2014 May 29, 3:18pm

[Some good, and maybe not so good, discussion of pros and cons of Driverless Cars in Ace of Spades morning comment thread 2014 May 29. Some selections follow.]

No steering wheel or brake? What could possibly go wrong?
—Zombie John Gotti

It can only go 25 mph. They haven't made a driverless car, they made a driverless golf cart.
— nnptcgrad

Very cool news overall. I can wait to put the taxi cartels out of business.
—HoboJerky

It's basically the same as turning every car into public transportation… no government would allow the software of a driverless car to not have a 'back door' to allow them to control it.
— chemjeff

Why not? We have a driverless country!
—Cicero Kaboom! Kid

'Mind pilots'
Michael Franco, CNET Thu 2014 May 29, 3:08pm

…researchers hooked study participants to a cap containing dozens of electroencephalography (EEG) electrodes, sat them down in a flight simulator, and told them to steer the plane through the sim using their thoughts alone. … Seven people underwent the experiment… all were able to pilot the plane using their thoughts to such a degree that their performance could have satisfied some of the criteria for getting a pilot's license.

More like an automated golf cart... so far
Brian Womack, Bloomberg Thu 2014 May 29, 3:06pm

Google Inc. has designed its own self-driving vehicles… The vehicles will initially have a top speed of 25 miles per hour and won’t have a steering wheel, accelerator pedal or brake pedal

Fundamentals
(Just 1 so far)
Civilization and Transport Liberty

Video Playlists:
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@SJPFISH, Twitter — 2020-Sep-1

Wait one second! Those aren’t Dolphins 🐬 following my boat! Twitter video, 0:40

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Vince Gerasole | CBS Chicago — 2018-Nov-18

CHICAGO Hancock Tower …A broken hoist rope caused the express elevator to malfunction… they had careened from the 95th floor down to the 11th floor.… It took nearly three hours to rescue six people… The rescue crew had to hammer out a concrete wall in the garage area of the 11th floor.… I've been on that elevator, and contemplated this very scenario. Even knowing all the modern safeties, which properly kicked in here, it seems, kinda terrifying. Wheeee! Gulp!

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Shamil Zhumatov | OANN — 2018-Oct-11

…two-man U.S.-Russian crew of a Soyuz spacecraft en route to the International Space Station was forced to make a dramatic emergency landing in Kazakhstan on Thursday when their rocket failed in mid-air. U.S. astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin landed safely without harm… made what NASA called a steep ballistic descent to Earth… Moscow immediately suspended all manned space launches… Footage from inside the Soyuz had shown the two men being shaken around at the moment the failure occurred, with their arms and legs flailing. Ovchinin, the Russian cosmonaut, can be heard saying: “That was a quick flight.”…

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Investors Business Daily — 2018-Oct-9

If you care about global warming, you must like wind power, right? But what if wind power itself ends up contributing to a warmer climate? That appears to be the case, according to a new study.…

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Robinson Meyer, the Atlantic — 2018-Jul-13

…Interstate 95, the country’s most used highway, will finally run as one continuous road between Miami and Maine by the late summer. The interstate’s infamous “gap” on the Pennsylvania and New Jersey border will be closed, turning I-95 into an unbroken river of concrete more than 1,900 miles long. In so doing, it will also mark a larger milestone, say transportation officials—the completion of the original United States interstate system.…

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James Delingpole, Breitbart — 2018-Jul-1

…Green recycling policy is killing the oceans with plastic pollution… Well, it's really that what is supposed to be being recycled just isn't.

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President Donald J. Trump, Twitter — 2018-Jun-30

Just spoke to King Salman of Saudi Arabia and explained to him that, because of the turmoil & disfunction in Iran and Venezuela, I am asking that Saudi Arabia increase oil production, maybe up to 2,000,000 barrels, to make up the difference...Prices to high! He has agreed! But, but, typo! Prices TOO high. What an idiot.

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