Blog Heap o'Transport Links 1 July 2016

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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.

Fri 2016 Jul 1

Transport Future

Tesla Wins the Prize for First Driverless Car Death
BlazingCatFur Fri 2016 Jul 1, 11:42am

US authorities are investigating the first death potentially caused by self-driving technology. …driver of a Tesla car died in Florida in May… Model S car was unable to recognise “the white side of the tractor trailer against a brightly lit sky” that had driven across the car’s path.…

Note well: Death caused by "self-driving" technology. And why, if it happened in May, are we only now finding out about it?
• citing BBC

Nature vs Transport

Mayflies Bury Bridge
Andrew P Collins, Jalopnik Fri 2016 Jul 1, 12:08am

The Havana, Illinois police department says be careful on the bridge; it’s covered in bugs. …six inches deep… made of mayflies… has bogged cars and crashed motorcycles.…

h/t: Patty, Weird Universe

Snail Slime on the Autobahn
UPI Fri 2016 Jul 1, 12:05am

A car crashed while traveling on the Autobahn in Germany after police say it slipped on slime produced by a group of snails.…

h/t: Patty, Weird Universe

Fundamentals
(Just 1 so far)
Civilization and Transport Liberty

Video Playlists:
personal monorail

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Transport, infrastructure & tech from

@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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