Oh, somebody did think of the dormouse – and spent $US290,000 on building the little creatures a bridge over a busy road.
South Korea has overhauled its public transport network with recharging roads, where the vehicles use power from buried electric strips in the road. It was invented at the University of California, before South Korea adopted it for an amusement park.
Like a big, black, bitumen electric blanket, “self-heating” roads are being worked on at the University of Houston, Texas, which will hopefully eliminate the need for salting trucks or ploughs during heavy snowstorms in the US.
An Italian programmer and over 100 other individuals, including public figures, policemen, and government officials, are currently being investigated for what seems to be a traffic-light-rigging conspiracy.
The apocalyptical road sign hacking continues after zombies attacked Austin a few days ago. Now, fossil raptors have been revived in Indiana and they are attacking motorists. At least, that’s what some of them think.
We know it was one of you. All the pieces of the puzzle fit. I mean, what kind of person would find the idea of hacking into a digital road sign funny, if not a Gizmodian? Not to mention that we sort of mentioned just how easy the entire process was.
Who in their right mind would dare hack a construction sign with zombie warnings? Well, apparently some people in Austin—probably some pesky University of Texas students according to a local traffic controller:
My car has a terrible suspension so I hate speed bumps. Even people with decent cars probably feel the same way. Wouldn’t it be awesome if the speed bump flattened when you were driving slow?
