Transportation

  • the Invisibles

    They are out there, sleeping in street corners, behind dumpsters, in the park and parking lot. They move about collecting bottles and cans, junk and juice. We have trained our eyes to tune them out, to ignore their pleas and pitches. We certainly don’t read their signs. We already knew, since it’s written on cardboard…

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  • Rev tone

    Public concerns for traffic safety create a new market for rev tones used in electric vehicles. People fear they cannot hear those noiseless cars approaching. So with multiple “ring tones” currently in the works, pedestrians might get more than what they were bargaining for: out-of-sync responses to false stimuli (young men get a kick  souping…

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