Posts Tagged ‘Sep-2008’

INCLEMENT WEATHER and darkness often make it difficult for a driver to see where the road bends. But new solarpowered “smart” road studs offer some illumination. SolarLites, developed by a British company called Astucia, have a built-in solar panel and light emitting diode (LED) technology. A special technology is used to convert daylight on the solar panels into stored energy for lighting the way at night. The studs automatically illuminate from dusk to dawn and provide visibility …

College: South’s Gonna Do It Again?
Remember when we were told no team from the Southeastern Conference could win a national championship? Those SEC juggernauts just beat up on each other week after week, so if one did make it through the season relatively unscathed, it had nothing left at the end. The Bowl Championship Series means those days are gone, as LSU proved last year when it reached the BCS championship game and dismantled Ohio State. An SEC might sink its teeth into a championsh…

It just isn’t normal to decide it would be fun to drive a car 150 feet in the air. Over water. On steel cables. But Liu Suozhu, 48, of Henan province in China, wanted to do it anyway. Suozhu recently drove a car over the Mi Luo River in Pingjiang City. During the 30-minute ride, covering about 750 feet, he offered his own minute-by-minute description of the drive via radio, broadcast to more than 10,000 people who turned up to cheer him on. The car had no modifications. The steel cab…

THE CAREFREE HOBO who jumps into a boxcar for a free ride is an iconic image in America. Hopping a freight carries a bit of a romantic tinge to it, thanks to a slew of movies and novels. And it once was possible to catch a ride on a freight train and not have to worry too much about getting caught. The standard enforcement practice was random “stop and search” to inspect trains for the presence of unauthorized riders or illegal cargo.Now, artificial intelligence is being utilized f…