San Francisco will test metered parking spaces in ambitious trial of wireless sensor network that will announce which spaces are free at any moment.
(From The New York Times)
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***? "The city's planners want to ensure that at any time, on-street parking is no more than 85 percent occupied." Where do these "planners" live? In those few SF neighborhoods where there is 15% parking available, no-one will need this gadget. The gadget will work only while just a privileged few have access to the data - after that, you will want to *avoid* exactly those spaces because they will attract gadget-equipped cars like flies to shyte. If the gadget does work at all, then obviously the 50 or 80% of people who can't afford or don't want the service are screwed. Good grief.
Google creates an animated doodle that features a boy, a girl, Google's search engine, and a jump rope. But might there be darker, more analytical, more troubling interpretations to this tale?
The Silicon Valley online payments startup grew by 1,000 percent last year and is hopeful it can repeat that level of growth this year. To do that, it's had to move away from its early friends-and-family roots and embrace small businesses.
Chamtech's spray-on antenna uses a nano material to provide a low-power boost to antenna range. The wireless-in-a-can product may some day bring an end to unsightly cell towers.
EnerG2 opens a plant to make an engineered carbon that will improve performance of energy storage devices and make storage for start-stop hybrid cars less expensive.
