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All subjects relating to transportation are fair game here - from who's transporting what how and why for whom when, to the nuts and bolts and information of logistics, to future directions and technologies, to infrastructures, impacts, issues, movers and shakers.
All subjects relating to transportation are fair game here - from who's transporting what how and why for whom when, to the nuts and bolts and information of logistics, to future directions and technologies, to infrastructures, impacts, issues, movers and shakers.
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Thanksgiving Travel Woes: Faulty Airline Checked Baggage Scales - ABC NewsThanksgiving Travel Woes: Faulty Airline Baggage Scales New York Authorities Find Problems with the Scales at JFK and LaGuardia If you are flying this Thanksgiving , you better check the weight of your bags twice. A three-week enforcement sweep from Oct. 19 to Nov. 6 by regulators in New ...
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Narrow track vehicles - the convergence of the car and the motorcycleSince Nicholas Negroponte first came up with his landmark teething ring visualization of the coming together of communication, computing and content, the term convergence has become the uber buzzword. Now there’s convergence going on in the personal transport industry, with the car and the ...
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High-tech letdown: Somali pirates repelled by bullets, not soundwaves -- DailyFinanceWhen a powerful "sonic cannon" was not "effective" in repelling Somali pirates during a high-seas showdown Wednesday, armed guards successfully battled off the marauders the good old-fashioned way -- with firearms, said Vice Adm. William Gortney, who commands the Pacific region for the U.S. ...
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FAA says flight computers working again - News- msnbc.comThe computer glitch that caused flight cancellations and delays around the country Thursday has been fixed, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Air travelers nationwide scrambled to revise their travel plans Thursday after an FAA computer problem caused problems for the second time in 15 months....
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Review: Toyota Venza falls short - MotorHead- msnbc.comIt frequently has been observed that it is easier to stalk the leader than it is to preserve that position once it is achieved. A case in point: The struggles Toyota has endured since overtaking General Motors as the leader in worldwide car sales last year. The Venza, a new, hard-to-define ...
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1FAA says flight computers working again - News- msnbc.comNow here's a piece of "PUBLIC" "socialized" infrastructure we might have been able to upgrade (maybe several times over) for the amount of money spent on airbases in Iraq and Afghanistan! Of course, doing so would have only benefited a few of "we the people" (but surely more than those foreign ...JDP added 2 days ago
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1BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Plant experts unveil DNA barcodeOh no, 650 letters. That close to "666" and barcoding probably means the "mark of the beasters" will explode out of the woodwork on this.JDP added 11 days ago
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1Airline pilots struggle to stay focused - CNN.comSo we still need pilots to tak off and land, BUT the automation aids in between can lead to the unintended consequence of lulling them into inattention (or sleep, or "other activities").JDP added 3 weeks ago
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1FedEx Express Advances In-Flight Safety with Automatic Fire Suppression System | FedEx Global NewsroomSee the video of this system in action using the link at the end of this article.JDP added 6 weeks ago
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13 cities get paperless postal service | MNN - Mother Nature NetworkUSPS can't like this ... though they did try their own version of electronic mail some time ago and failed miserably. Will it work this time?JDP added 7 weeks ago
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