Some urban planners still believe that the best way to ease traffic congestion is to build more roads, especially roads that can take drivers around or over crowded city streets.
Other, more forward-thinking planners know that more and more drivers and cars are taking to the roads every day, something they don’t want to encourage.
The James Bond films were famous for stunts. In ‘The Man with the Golden Gun’ (1974), Bumps Willard, as James Bond, drives a car off a bridge and turns it over in the air.
Scientists have stored all 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets on tiny stretches of synthesized DNA. Large companies might one day keep DNA storage rather than maintain and update roomfuls of hard drives.
An analysis of the top 50 social/viral video ads found that the ideal length for video content on YouTube averages 4 min. 11 sec. It takes a little bit of time to elicit emotion, which is what drives the viewer to share.
Moviegoers settle in for what they believe is a coming attraction for a driver behind the wheel. Just then, everyone in the theater gets a text message and many look down to read it. What happens next chilled me to the bone.
A siren-equipped supercar is a highly visible, undeniably effective crime-deterrent. But when the Huracan Polizia goes on duty it may inspire another kind of unrest: fistfights among the police officers who want to drive it!