Gadgets for road trips

Everything You Need to Prepare for a Long Road Trip Yaara Lancet, lifehacker.com I 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 … Continue reading Gadgets for road trips

How to never get lost again: apps for travel

Road Tripping In The Digital Age Ryan Lawler, techcrunch.com I’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… RT @TechCrunch: Road Tripping In The … Continue reading How to never get lost again: apps for travel

Traffic: Behavior Based Reality

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 … Continue reading Traffic: Behavior Based Reality

Traffic: usability and social science of traffic

Traffic » Home. 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! Related articles Tube Traffic Secrets: Review Examines Jeff Johnson's YouTube Traffic Training Course (prweb.com) Annoying Traffic Cameras Are No Match for Subversive … Continue reading Traffic: usability and social science of traffic