Bikes May Have To Talk To Self-Driving Cars For Safety’s Sake

Anthony Rowe, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, wants bikes to feed information to nearby cars to avoid collisions. His bike is fitted with an array of precise instruments and a battery hidden in the water bottle.
NPR
All Things Considered
July 24, 2017

Proponents of self-driving cars say they’ll make the world safer, but autonomous vehicles need to predict what bicyclists are going to do. Now researchers say part of the answer is to have bikes feed information to cars.

8 Ways Technology Is Improving Your Health

8 Ways Technology Is Improving Your Health
February 22, 2017
Positive Health Wellness

It’s true, we hear of the negatives, but there are many positives in technology improving our health and our lives.

There are treatments for small and major ailments. Even cancer patients have better life expectancies than they would have done in earlier years. There is the technology for earlier diagnosis and treatments to eradicate the cancerous cells.

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Hit-and-run suspect arrested after her own car calls cops

Hit-and-run suspect arrested after her own car calls cops
Yahoo News
12/7/15

A Florida woman’s own car snitched on her after she allegedly rear-ended two vehicles and left the scene without reporting the accident to the authorities. […] An emergency call is automatically placed to local first responders who can pinpoint the precise location of the incident using information supplied by the vehicle’s GPS unit. […]

U.S. Proposes Overhaul of Car-Safety Ratings

U.S. Proposes Overhaul of Car-Safety Ratings
WSJ
12/8/15

[…] The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Tuesday proposed adding assessments of the features in the hopes the safety breakthroughs will eventually become mainstays on cars and trucks the way air bags and electronic stability control have over the years. Autonomous driving technologies such as lane-departure and blind-spot warnings increasingly allow vehicles to avoid crashes as opposed to simply helping drivers survive collisions. More than 32,000 people die each year on U.S. roads. [….]

Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It

Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It
WIRED
7/21/15

[…] Miller and Valasek’s full arsenal includes functions that at lower speeds fully kill the engine, abruptly engage the brakes, or disable them altogether. The most disturbing maneuver came when they cut the Jeep’s brakes, leaving me frantically pumping the pedal as the 2-ton SUV slid uncontrollably into a ditch. […]

Bicycle crash study could guide design of bicyclist detection systems

Bicycle crash study could guide design of bicyclist detection systems

IIHS
Status Report, Vol. 50, No. 3 | March 31, 2015

[…] A growing number of vehicles are equipped with front crash prevention technology that can recognize the back of another vehicle and prevent a rear-end crash. If more of these systems could also recognize the backs of bicycles and bicyclists, they could prevent or mitigate a large portion of the crashes that kill people traveling on two wheels. […]

Why Health Care Tech Is Still So Bad

Why Health Care Tech Is Still So Bad

New York Times
3/21/2015

[…] A recent study of more than one million medication errors reported to a national database between 2003 and 2010 found that 6 percent were related to the computerized prescribing system. […] In one month, the electronic monitors in our five intensive care units, which track things like heart rate and oxygen level, produced more than 2.5 million alerts. […]