This taxi driver in Hong Kong has somewhere between six and eight mobile phones on his dash. Maybe he just uses phones people leave in the back? [Holygadzooks Flickr]
This morning the L line was halted in NYC—my roommate and hundreds of desperate Williamsburg hipsters couldn’t get into Manhattan. And while the subway is still great*, I wish we had Robot Taxis.
The NYC “Taxi and Limousine Commission,” which apparently is a real thing, is tossing around tech ideas including iPod docking, GPS, and blocking mobile phone calls in the front seat to shut up talkative drivers.
The United Arab Emirates is planning a bunch of “personal rapid transit” devices: driverless taxis that run on electricity and could hit the streets of Masdar as early as this year.
After 17 gruelling months, Swiss adventurer Louis Palmer’s around-the-world trip in a solar-powered car is finally over. Altogether, he traveled 51,500km and across 40 countries.
