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Autonomous cars are coming.
Autonomous cars are coming.
Shoot deer. Put on shoulders. Ride bike to butcher. Done.
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Specifically, a bright orange flag on a fifteen foot pole affixed to your bicycle.
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Oh by gosh, by golly, the U.S. Department of Transportation and billionaire Paul Allen are offering $50 million to the winner of a Smart City competition intended to solve traffic problems with high tech solutions. $50 million!
But having more people ride, and better bikeway infrastructure, does.
The New York Times has a fantastic article about the hallucinogenic view driverless cars will have when they start driving us around.
And Spokane has permeable pavement. Therefore, Spokane is the future.
The city is in the midst of a pilot program testing the use of traffic cameras to catch speeders in school zones. We asked candidates in Spokane city races what they thought of the cameras.
That's just not right.
San Francisco is considering allowing cyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs, a practice commonly known as the "Idaho stop," because the Gem State has allowed such a move for decades.
Most like them. One does not. Like A LOT.
Freya, Hatch and Tower. What have you climbed?
No, not the Monkey Wrench Gang type. Srsly.
That simple phrase - "Bicycles May Use Full Lane" - gets across the rules of the road and increases safety, study says.
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A car for people who ride bikes but still like cars.
Always bet on the bike. Unless there's a car involved. Unless the car is driven by a computer.
Roads are dumb pavement. So dumb. Maybe not for long.
Shock, the federal government says to use its money for bikeways.
We have plenty of wide roads in Spokane, the leavings of decades of car-centered city planning.
Dongho Chang is a bike-riding pavement savant who tweets like mad.