All posts tagged safety

zombies

Zombies Offer Key to Understanding How Crowds Evacuate
July 8, 2013 · No comments

Zombies might not be the most obvious candidates to use when researching how crowds evacuate...

driving-music

Listening to Music While Driving Has Very Little Effect on Driving Performance
June 6, 2013 · No comments

Most motorists enjoy listening to the radio or their favourite CD while driving. Many of...

Barrels and cones dot an open field in Saline, Mich., forming an obstacle course for a modified vehicle. A driver remotely steers the vehicle through the course from a nearby location as a researcher looks on. Occasionally, the researcher instructs the driver to keep the wheel straight -- a trajectory that appears to put the vehicle on a collision course with a barrel. Despite the driver's actions, the vehicle steers itself around the obstacle, transitioning control back to the driver once the danger has passed. (Credit: Image courtesy of Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Mechanical Engineers Develop an ‘Intelligent Co-Pilot’ for Cars
July 16, 2012 · No comments

Barrels and cones dot an open field in Saline, Mich., forming an obstacle course for...

Japanese Trying to Stabilize Radioactive Fuel Pools, But are Moving too Slowly … By a Decade
April 18, 2012 · No comments

Via Global Research Scientists say that the big Japanese earthquake last year has increased the chance of a...