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  New York pilots a scheme to allow vehicles to communicate with one another

  The Economist

  NEW YORK'S drivers are not always renowned for keeping their eyes glued to the road. Anyone who has visited the city could easily imagine the …

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  Why Cities Around The World Are Suddenly Ditching Traffic Lights

  fastcoexist.com - Jessica Leber

  By Jessica Leber3 minute Read Common sense says that cars and pedestrians should be kept apart. Pretty straightforward. So why are so many cities …

• Ants can avoid traffic jams, why can't we

  

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  Why Ants Handle Traffic Better Than You Do

  NPR - Joe Palca

  Could studying ants reveal clues to reducing highway traffic jams? Physicist Apoorva Nagar at the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology thinks the answer is yes. Nagar says he got interested in the topic when he came across a study by German and Indian researchers showing that ants …

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  GPS Not Working? This Analog Nav System Contains No Electronics At All

  fastcoexist.com - Jessica Leber

  The “chemical computing” system is admittedly a bit less practical than even those frustrating Garmins, but it could work faster than traditional …

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  Gigaom

  Oct 21, 2014
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  Mercedes Is Making a Self-Driving Semi to Change the Future of Shipping

  WIRED - Alex Davies

  The latest truck concept from Mercedes-Benz doesn’t look like anything crazy. Its design is a bit unusual, and it’s loaded up with LEDs instead of …