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Hackers Can Now Create Fake Traffic Jams

A couple of Israeli students figured out a way to create fake traffic jams using the popular, Google-owned Waze GPS app. And while it sounds silly at first, these kinds of infrastructure hacks could have serious consequences as we depend more and more on data to help us get around town. The Waze hack is…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Apr 1

These Failed Designs for the Interstate Sign Are Oddly Disorienting

It’s one of those things you’ve seen your entire life and probably never thought much about. There’s that iconic blue shield shape with a white number inside and a single word on a white background: “Interstate.” It could’ve been so much worse. Nearly 60 years ago, it was apparent that the United States would adopt…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Mar 10

5 Ideas To Make Roads Safer for Cars and Pedestrians

“Vision Zero,” New York mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to eliminate traffic deaths in the city, is audacious but not unprecedented. Like almost all good social policies, the Swedes did it first. And we could learn a thing or two from them. Sweden first introduced its own version of Vision Zero in 1997 as a…

Tech News Sarah Zhang Mar 3

Will New York’s New Highway “Texting Stops” Curb Distracted Driving?

In an attempt to curb the number of dangerous drivers on New York highways who are distracted by their smartphones, the state is introducing dedicated Texting Zones where motorists can pull off, park, and safely use their mobile devices. But the initiative doesn’t require any new construction since existing rest stops and parking areas along…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 24

Building a Highway Is Way More Complicated Than You’d Think

There’s way more to building a road than just slathering some asphalt all over the ground. The process is actually pretty involved, with a bunch of steps you probably hadn’t thought of. And even a little bit of art to it. This fantastic video from Aaron Jones shows the E.T. Simonds construction company from Carbondale,…

Tech News Eric Limer Aug 24

Where Exactly Is the Middle of Nowhere?

We’ve all said it or thought it or joked about it or believed it at one point in our lives. That damn, we were in the middle of nowhere. But that corn field or dark stretch of the highway hardly qualifies as nowhere. True nowhere is actually in Idaho. Visual Statistix created this wonderful map…

Tech News Casey Chan Jul 5

All Roads Should Glow in the Dark (Obviously)

The Dutch design firms Studio Roosegaarde and Hejmans Infrastructure just came up with a brilliant prototype for a “Smart Highway” that uses interactive lighting that adapts to driving conditions to make the roads safer. Enough with crap infotainment systems inside cars that distract us from driving with Twitter and dinner reservations—let’s light up the roads…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Oct 25

Road Repair Tech Sees and Fills Cracks On the Move

Repairing cracks in roadways is a costly and time-consuming job. So researchers have come up with an automated system to fill cracks in asphalt, which covers more ground in less time and could save money by extending the life of a road. The new method is an automated pavement crack detection and refilling system developed…

Gadgets Amy Kraft - New Scientist Jun 21

What it’s like to tear down an abandoned Japanese highway on a motorbike

It’s The Walking Dead Gumball 3000! Like a real-life version of the short animated movie Ruin, this cameraman thought it would be a fun idea to tear ass down a derelict stretch of road in Japan as fast as possible. Nifty, albeit not advisable! https://gizmodo.com/this-post-apocalyptic-short-animation-deserves-its-own-5894011 Semi-related: Norway’s techno train. https://gizmodo.com/watch-a-7-hour-train-ride-through-norway-set-entirely-t-5689179 [Airamasked via Neatorama]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Apr 30

Take a stroll down Staten Island’s freeway to nowhere

In 1966, community activists successfully stopped the construction of the Richmond Parkway Interchange, a stretch of highway that urban planning titan Robert Moses wanted to run through the forested Staten Island Greenbelt. After construction ceased, this highway became cracked and crumbled by time. Photographer Nathan Kensinger has explored this one-mile stretch of highway, which has…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Aug 14

Traffic Problems Will Disappear by Year 2000 (1955)

From the 1958 Disneyland TV episode Magic Highway, USA The September 22, 1955 Lewiston Daily Sun (Lewiston, ME) ran a wonderful piece titled, “Hope For the Motorist: Traffic Problems Will Disappear by Year 2000.” Such unbridled optimism for the yet to be developed Interstate Highway System is downright cute. Well, cute in that condescending “bless…

Tech News Matt Novak Feb 2

The American Autobahn of 1925 would’ve run next door to the White House

In 1925, several American highway associations drafted up designs for a six-lane highway running from NYC to Washington DC. This doesn’t sound controversial, but they also decided to plop down the road adjacent to the White House and Capitol. This proposed motorway (dubbed the “Lee Highway”) was part of a greater plan to unite the…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 29

This six-story highway through Manhattan is a great lunatic moment in urban planning

As controversial as Robert Moses’ automobile-heavy redesign of New York City was, none of his projects matched the sheer insanity of this skyscraper-sized highway proposed by one-time NYC health commissioner Dr. John A. Harriss in 1930. To be fair, this concept art from Modern Mechanics magazine isn’t the most ridiculous club sandwich-style motorway ever proposed.…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 22

The Electric Car March Continues Into Washington State’s Cascade Mountains

Washington State, no stranger to the environment or tourism in the Cascade Mountains, will soon install a number of EV charging stations in that region for the slew of electric vehicles that will inevitably vacation there alongside their green masters. The 480 V AC/DC EV charging stations, numbing just two or three over a 120-mile…

Tech News Jack Loftus Jan 16

How to turn a highway into a giant dungeon (slightly NSFW)

Street artist Dan Witz glues disturbing portraiture to highway walls. The result? Blink-and-you’ll-miss-them prison cells that leave drivers wondering what they just saw. In the future, they’ll build these for motorists who abuse the carpool lane. [Dan Witz via The Wooster Collective]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 30

Mayonnaise-Bearing Truck Accident Causes Hilarious Slippery Pile-Up

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. Police spent five hours cleaning up over the 3.5km-long stretch of road in western Japan,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Sep 27

This Is How Solar Roadways Actually Look

When I first read about Solar Roadways—super-tough solar panels with built-in LED signs designed to turn roads into power plants—I thought that they were never going to happen. Well, here’s a prototype. [Solar Roadways via GadgetReview] https://gizmodo.com/super-tough-solar-panels-could-make-every-road-into-a-p-5347896

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 16

Crazy Japan Builds Crazy Highways to Drive People Crazy

This road smashing into a building and emerging out on the other side is the most “normal” highway in this album of Japanese infrastructures collected by Dark Roasted Blend. Here are our favorites. Absolutely nuts. Although other structures around the world can rival these, the concentration in Japanese cities is simple astounding. Head to DRB…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Dec 23

Hackers Can Now Create Fake Traffic Jams

These Failed Designs for the Interstate Sign Are Oddly Disorienting

5 Ideas To Make Roads Safer for Cars and Pedestrians

Will New York’s New Highway “Texting Stops” Curb Distracted Driving?

Building a Highway Is Way More Complicated Than You’d Think

Where Exactly Is the Middle of Nowhere?

All Roads Should Glow in the Dark (Obviously)

Road Repair Tech Sees and Fills Cracks On the Move

What it’s like to tear down an abandoned Japanese highway on a motorbike

Take a stroll down Staten Island’s freeway to nowhere

Traffic Problems Will Disappear by Year 2000 (1955)

The American Autobahn of 1925 would’ve run next door to the White House

This six-story highway through Manhattan is a great lunatic moment in urban planning

The Electric Car March Continues Into Washington State’s Cascade Mountains

How to turn a highway into a giant dungeon (slightly NSFW)

Mayonnaise-Bearing Truck Accident Causes Hilarious Slippery Pile-Up

This Is How Solar Roadways Actually Look

Crazy Japan Builds Crazy Highways to Drive People Crazy

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