Thursday, October 29, 2009

Odds and ends

Congestion pricing makes it to Utah.
Congestion pricing has some support in the Arlington transportation board.
Automobile restrictions , trials on Market Street, SF have been ongoing and data will be out soon.

Oakland Airport connector, with new conditions. The new conditions should raise the price tag from $500 million to $700 million.

Volvo is in final tests of its pedestrian detection system for cars. Pedestrian detect and avoidance is a key technology for Robocars.

Pioneer introduces DSRC communications into its line of portable navigation system.

The DOT is reporting that collision detect technology should eliminate 50% of rear end collisions. This British "Best Truck in History" winner has all the driver assist technology.

And Gov Pawlenty joins the Intelligent Traffic movement with both feet, including lane guidance for buses. Or buy the portable Navigon with lane assist aids while driving.

Speaking of automatic lane guidance, here are some field trials in the US. And the European ITS Congress trials of full driver assist.

So we live in a world in which we can assemble all the parts for a deliverbot, and deliver groceries to poor people at 1/4 the delivery costs.

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