Winter brings along beauty, white treetops, holidays, and crackling fires, but what it doesn’t bring is anything good for your car. Seriously, black ice, slippery roads, salt, etc. all make the winter a tough time to be a vehicle owner. However, one Calgary man had the bad road conditions on his side. He watched on as a thief attempted to steal his truck, only to be thwarted by the bad weather. After losing control of the car on the slippery road, the auto thief fled on foot leaving the car behind. The owner called the police and kept an eye on the car from the comfort of his home. That’s when he watched as yet another thief attempted to steal his car again! This time, much in the same fashion, the new criminal also only made it a few feet before losing control of the vehicle and fleeing on foot. For this individual the bad weather and luck were on his side. For the rest of us that aren’t so lucky when it comes to bad weather driving, spare your car the stress of winter driving and join a van or carpool.
Like most of you, we’re not fans of traffic. That’s one of the benefits to using alternate forms of transportation, reducing traffic congestion. Unfortunately, traffic can be caused by any number of things, some tragic, and others comical. Hopefully whatever causes the traffic you have to sit in skews on the side of comical. Commuters in Jefferson County Colorado were in stopped traffic for over a half hour. Eastbound lanes of I-70 had to be closed due to a runaway cow on the highway. Police and Animal Control were able to get the cow into a horse trailer and returned to its owner. After the cow was removed commuters could begin to mooove once again.
Everyone has to obey the rules of the road; the law makes no exceptions for anyone. Seriously, it doesn’t even make exceptions for no one. A Google self-driving car was pulled over near the Google headquarters in California last week for doing 25mph in a 35mph zone. The driverless vehicle was holding up traffic while driving under the speed limit and as such was pulled over by police. So, the next time you find yourself pulled over and feeling singled out, remember that the rules are the rules; you, me, everyone, and even no one has to follow traffic laws, it’s better for everyone.
Transportation technology seemingly improves everyday. Seriously, self-driving cars, vehicles that can talk to each other, trains powered by magnets, it’s as if we’re living in a science fiction film. Well there is one more we can add to the list. Are you sick of the typical NY to London flight taking seven hours? Well there is a new concept design out there for a jet called the Screemr. Capable of speeds as fast as mach 10! That’s ten times the speed of sound, rocketing you from NY to London in only a half an hour!!! With technology like that, you could have a business meeting in London and be back to the states in time for dinner!
If you’ve used Uber before, odds are you’ve liked the experience. If you’re human, you likely enjoy the love and antics of kittens. This past Thursday was National Cat Day and Uber teamed up with the Humane Society of West Michigan to bring Kittens to people’s offices. That’s right, you could call up an Uber, and for $30 (which was donated to the Humane Society) have kittens brought to your office for fifteen minutes of cute and adorable distraction.
