This is a pretty neat picture showing how much space is needed for different forms of transportation. As always, the car is the worst way to get around. Be efficient and take public transit or ride a bicycle 🙂
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More Bicycles = Safer Streets
Bicycles are perhaps the greatest invention human civilization has ever made. So great that having people use them makes the roads safer because car drivers actually start paying attention to what’s around their car.
“It appears that motorists adjust their behavior in the presence of increasing numbers of people bicycling because they expect or experience more people cycling,” said Julie Hatfield, an injury expert from the university.
With fewer accidents, people perceive cycling as safer, so more people cycle, thus making it even safer, she said.
“Rising cycling rates mean motorists are more likely to be cyclists, and therefore be more conscious of, and sympathetic towards, cyclists,” she said.
Six Eco Car Designs
Deputy Dog has some neat photos of six cars designed to be insanely environmentally friendly.
the term ‘eco-friendly’ is on everybody’s lips at the moment and thankfully it’s not going to disappear any time soon. let’s take a quick look into the near future and find out what we may be driving 20 years from now, in a time when, hopefully, gas-guzzlers are a thing of the past and our robotic butlers will have to plug our cars into the mains overnight.
Eureka: Crazy Carpark Signage
The way-finding-system for the Eureka Tower Carpark in Melbourne Australia is really neat!
Michigan Wins Solar Car Race
The 2008 North American Solar Challenge has ended in Calgary and the winners are from the University of Michigan, who have won it many many times in the past.
“A tremendous amount of work went into getting to this point. A lot of us have been on the team for over two years,” said a beaming Brooke Bailey, 23, who drove the blue-and-gold car for the final leg.
“The car has done everything we hoped for and we’re here. We made it.”
The solar cars resemble flying saucers with tiny cockpits that drivers cram themselves into for six hours at a time, enduring no air conditioning and little ventilation.
“When we were down in Texas the heat was pretty bad. We are pretty cramped, and by the end you’re ready to get out,” Bailey said.