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  Commuters benefit from sensors

  05.05.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Commuters benefit from sensors

  Ever wondered what those antennae were mounted on freeway signs? Or what the rectangular cuts in the roadway were? Well, they’re probably sensors. Ever wondered how they’re used? Here’s a great example: 511.org and another CalTrans Realtime Traffic Cameras. Here’s a realtime traffic load map from 511.org: You can also meld technology like route planning […]

• Coastal Stuff, Innovation, Technology & Science

  A day without ‘net

  04.24.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on A day without ‘net

  Saturday evening at 8:15pm, my network connection to the world was severed. For many of you this would be no big deal, and indeed, being Saturday, I wasn’t severely tweaked about it. I called my provider and learned of a general outage in my area that they were working to fix. On Sunday morning I […]

• Coastal Stuff

  Video clip of Devil’s Slide Geology

  04.18.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Video clip of Devil’s Slide Geology

  Thanks to Bill Harper for sharing this: CalTrans Senior Geologist Grant Wilcox reviews the geology and damage to Devil’s Slide

• Coastal Stuff, Innovation

  Sensors at Devil’s Slide

  04.18.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Sensors at Devil’s Slide

  Yesterday, my commute home took 100% more time than it took a mere few weeks ago. Was this an anomaly? I wish. Recently, Highway 1, 50% of the access from my home to the rest of the Bay Area was shutdown indefinitely due to storm damage. An interesting side effect of this is a remote […]

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