Tag Archives: Auckland
The Auckland Harbour Bridge Approaches are at Full Capacity
Headlines in newspapers are saying that the business case for building a second harbour crossing in Auckland have been delayed. The implication is that this will exacerbate the traffic congestion problem. Auckland’s Mayor, Phil Goff has a published Vision Statement … Continue reading
An Opportunity for Aucklanders to Improve their Communications Skills
It seems to me that whenever there is a problem, whether it is family or friends, work, community or at a global level, a lot of it is to do with communication and mostly misunderstandings that are easily fixed. Of … Continue reading
Smart clothes peg pings your phone when there’s rain on the way
Peggy is a smart clothes-peg prototype that uses a number of sensors and local weather information to tell you when the washing is dry and ping you when rain’s on the way to prevent you drying the same load twice. … Continue reading
Commuters’ tales: No room to sit – even in the toilet – BBC News
Bhasker Solanki photographed commuters on an early morning train from Surat to Mumbai. Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.bbc.co.uk When I first started catching the Northern Express Bus from the Auckland’s CBD to the North Shore around the evening peak, there … Continue reading
Auckland Council GIS Viewer
Sourced through Scoop.it from: maps.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz Have you ever wondered what your neighborhood used to look like, what the area around your house looked like 30-40 years ago? I was discussing with a friend how much Torbay has changed. Long Bay … Continue reading
Virtual stakeout: GPS tracking devices hidden in cash and in pill bottles … – Toledo Blade
MINEOLA, N.Y. — For months, police trying to solve a Long Island robbery spree had little more to go on than grainy surveillance footage of a man in a hoodie and black ski mask holding up one gas station or … Continue reading
One Car Per Family, AAP’s New Strategy To Control Traffic Congestion And Air … – Indiatimes.com
AAP’s latest road show: Only one car to a family in Delhi | indiatimes.com Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.indiatimes.com It’s kind of interesting reading a story like this from one of the countries that led the concept of mindfulness. I … Continue reading
Autonomous cars are learning our unpredictable driving habits
Sharing the road with self-driving cars will mean them learning our driving tics and perhaps even adopting some themselves Sourced through Scoop.it from: http://www.newscientist.com I’m a skeptic. I like that UC Berkeley is doing this research, and it needs to … Continue reading
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