Two-and-a-half years ago we published a guide on how to hack electronic road signs. Now America finds itself drowning in a sea of zombie warnings – and we’ve become the unofficial whipping boy of the highway Lite-brite hacking community. [Jalopnik]
Japan’s world-class transportation infrastructure couldn’t withstand this month’s 9.0-magnitutde quake, but their construction teams are still amazing. This stretch of highway was repaired in just six days by a Herculean road crew. This is the triumph of Japanese engineering. [Jalopnik]
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No CGI. No green screen. Just some deft camera work, 760 frames of animation and a speeding Subaru. That’s how you turn a stretch of road into the world’s biggest, robot spiderest flipbook. And here’s how they did it: More »
Picture the scene: a truck carrying boxes of mayonnaise bottles skids on a highway. The bottles tumble out, spilling all over the road. Cars, trucks and motorbikes then slide over the eggy mess in a hilarious Keystone Kops-type situation. Oops. More »
Oh, somebody did think of the dormouse – and spent $US290,000 on building the little creatures a bridge over a busy road. More »
