Consider parking, where a series of apps such as Haystack and MonkeyParking have allowed drivers, armed with nothing but smartphones, to auction off public parking spaces to fellow drivers looking for spots.
Still, Mr. Shilling and his colleagues think that drivers armed with keen eyes, GPS devices and smartphones are perhaps better suited than government agencies to map the cumulative effects of roadkill.
During the San Jose series, on the morning of a game, a flotilla of truck drivers armed with freight train horns made a racket at 6 15 in front of the hotel where the San Jose team was staying.
Using the system, drivers, armed with GPS enabled smartphones, would be able to send in regular check-ins from their routes via the internet or SMS.
These include emergency personnel driving firetrucks or ambulances, taxi drivers, armed forces personnel driving military vehicles, construction workers using equipment not designed for standard road use, drivers of recreational vehicles, and farmers transporting goods within 150 miles (240 km) of their home.
Actuation step size is user adjustable from 0.05 to 2 μm through the addition of a supplementary electrostatic actuator that controls the oscillation amplitude of the driver arm.
The microstage is incorporated in a complete microsystem package that allows long range translation of the microstage through consecutive clamping to either an oscillating driver arm or stationary substrate.
Only the weaker UAS::lam insertion with the weakest ubiquitous driver (arm) at the lower temperature produced any adults, which were indistinguishable from wildtype flies.
The driver, armed with a.38-caliber gun, spun round and shot Mr. Natuarale, who was sitting two rows back, killing him.
A Palestinian medical worker said the boy, Aysar Yasir al-Zaben, was shot in the back as he and his two friends ran away after the driver, armed with a rifle, got out of his car and began firing at them.
