Transportation

Color Blind Highway Superintendent

Did you know there is a way to tell if a town’s highway superintendent suffers from red-green color blindness?

Look to see if there are a lot of blue-on-white signs in a town. Color blind individuals strongly prefer those colors over green-on-white signs.

Parking

If our next president wanted to be really popular, he’d run on the platform of more parking. As we all know, parking is the only thing most Americans really care about.

Aging Wheels:The CitiCar is an Electric Cheese Wedge From the 70’s

The CitiCar was the most produced electric car in America after World War II until the Telsa Model S. The car, with a top speed of 38 MPH with entirely electro-mechanical, and lacked any control electronics.
Complete with a brushed DC motor and three-speed contactor control system that made a large clunk between "gears", that worked by using a resistor and two batteries for low speed, two batteries and no resistor for mid-speed and all six for high-speed.

Rubber Tires – A dirty business | DW Documentary

The booming global tire market is worth billions - but this comes at a high price, both to humans and the environment. Over 50 million car tires are sold each year in Germany alone. But where does the natural rubber for them come from?