A great new traffic preventer could be on the way…
…but I’m sure slower people will still make the rabbits feel the road rage!
I’m sure this will never make its way over to the good ol’ US of A, but it appears that Audi has started a pilot program on 50 traffic lights to make them “smart lights”. The lights have been equipped with sensors that send information to a netowrk that “adapts to traffic patterns to deliver optimum light switching” but supposedly also lets drivers know when the light will change so you can speed up to get through the intersection.
With the way I have seen people around here drive, it won’t amount to a hill of beans. People already run red lights, I just think this will make them run it more frequently. And most drivers won’t pay attention to the “speed up to make the light” sensor…they’ll just plod along.
Who knows though?
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I hate tour guides and tours with all those noisy…tourists…
…but at least Germany has come up with a very inventive way of getting the point across without being noisy!
Brühl’s Terrace in Dresden, Germany has done away with the standard rent a headset and listen to the story of history and have begun to use a new technology called “Touched Echo”. At a location of an air raid on February 13, 1945, people who want to hear the sounds of airplane battles that took place can just place their elbows on the handrail and soak it in while bystanders are none-the-wiser that you are listening to something.
The simplistic explanation of the technology is this: with an apparatus attached to the handrail, tourists can lean their elbows down on the rail and place their hands over their ears allowing vibrations to travel through the rail, through the bone which is then converted into sound. A little more technical (not much)…the vibrations are translated in your inner ear from vibrations to readable sound “pulses” in the brain.
So no erroneous sounds, no constant babble from tour guides, no maintenance issues from rain, just simple sounds in a fairly simple method.
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