Re "Hands-Free Calling: Options for the Road" (July 26): Safe driving requires, almost demands, 100percentt attention to all street and highway conditions and circumstances, and drivers on phones, hand-held or not, are not giving 100percentt attention!
"Even a natural forest fire will change the surface of the road," leading to melting, said Bronwyn Benkert, who studies cold-climate issues at the Yukon Research Center, and who is researching highway conditions north of here, near the Alaska border.
Lane switching in highway conditions is set to come to ProPILOT in 2018, and city driving, including full intersection negotiation, is supposed to make its debut in 2020.
To mimic highway conditions, the vegetation units were allowed to develop naturally outdoors and received no weed control.
In order to mimic varying highway conditions, we pseudo-uniformly placed nodes on a straight line to reflect the simulated traffic density.
The results can be beneficial to the design and installation of snow fences, wind screens, and noise barriers, even more to the early warning for highway conditions.
The goal was to determine if these descriptors, when applied in an expert assessment, could produce results indicative of public preference for highway conditions.
Honda said a specific mileage estimate for the new hybrid system would not be provided until later this year, but said it's about 5% better than current Civic hybrid cars, which deliver about 51 miles per gallon under U.S. highway conditions.
Additionally, future work may also include the integration of highway conditions data, accidents data, and traffic information to provide a central source of information for the district to aid in project planning.
But Zipdash, a startup in Palo Alto, California, hopes to take advantage of the growing number of mobile telephones with global positioning satellite receivers to gather the travel speeds of thousands or tens of thousands of drivers, displaying highway conditions as maps on mobile-phone screens.
The new system replaces existing manual processes, providing a number of immediate and future benefits including reducing time to calculate some permits from weeks to seconds, reducing processing costs and providing potential safety benefits by reacting to rapidly changing highway conditions.
