VII & Connected Vehicles

Here is a good article on the type of elements that I design for the transportation industry.  The Feds (USDOT & FHWA) are spending a lot of time developing these types of systems that will allow much more traffic to occupy a given bit of roadway and to do that in safety.  This urls should give you just a bit of an insight of what the near future holds for the automobile driver.  Be sure to download the pdf from the site too.

http://www.itsdocs.fhwa.dot.gov//JPODOCS/BROCHURE//14397.htm

Another evening of kayaks

I adheared to the same schedule as last night. Dinner tonight was at Steak n Shake – I love the 5 Way Chile.  Then on to Barnes & Noble to read some books.  I stayed with kayaks again tonight but did a little more detailed reading on the various subjects.  the author plugged his designs and he is from Great Britain and a proponent of small cockpits and openings and longer lengths.  Admittedly, he is an ocean kayaker that goes very long distances in all kinds of conditions.  I need a book about the kind of kayaks to use on inland waterways and rivers.  A lot of the rivers I am on are more narrow that the 17′ sea kayak that seems the norm.  So how do I turn around?