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Rode the bike down the street at work to see the hole. I really like the street sign lying on its side in the ditch...
#road #menomoneeFalls

This is the #Garbce stop on railway line 271 (Poznań — Wrocław), renovated a few years ago.
The platforms end a dozen metres from the railway crossing. However, there is no walkway from the platforms to the crossing; probably because it would need to cross a tiny stream. Instead, a 100 m long walkways have been added to the other end of the platforms, with a tunnel joining the platforms and access to a side road in the town. To reach the railway crossing, you have to walk 700 m.
Ironically, even in the general drought the tunnel manages to feature puddles of ground water. Also including the photo of a platform roofing with weird orange marks.
#rail

us_roads: United States roads (2000)
The road networks of the 50 US States and the District of Columbia based on UA Census 2000 TIGER/Line Files. Edges are stretches of road and vertices are intersections of roads. The data sets were assembled by Dominik Schultes. The 'merged' network contains all the states merged together.
This network has 308401 nodes and 385164 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

B.C. cyclist's clever Strava drawings:
"Perfect intersection' of art, fitness and road rash
When B.C.'s Janine Strong got into road cycling in 2019, she had no idea it would lead her down the path of Strava art: the creation of massive GPS-tracked sketches around the world."
See Ya later Alligator
#stava

Urban Composition V 🫟
都市构图 V 🫟
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Yiding Cao Geld mit PayPal.Me senden
Folgen Sie dem Link PayPal.Me/dingsterdingster und geben Sie den Betrag ein. Es ist bequem und sicher. Sie haben noch kein PayPal-Konto? Kein Problem.

For years, every road trip we took began with the same song. It's been a while since we've listened to it right out of the gates, but the feeling's still there.
The Clash, "London Calling" (1979)
https://youtu.be/LC2WpBcdM_A

Visited my 95-year-old Mom in Saskatchewan and came away with Prairie pictures and thoughts on memory and topography and Google color science and healthcare economics. https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/07/09/Saskatchewan

Memory in Saskatchewan

I've made Near Miss of the Day on @…
I can honestly say that this is nothing that I have ever aspired to!
https://road.cc/content/news/near-miss

Near Miss of the Day 932: Experienced cyclist says this near-collision "was by far the scariest I've had while cycling"
"I was certain that a high-speed collision was imminent," said the cyclist who was wearing a bright orange jersey when the driver somehow failed to spot him at a roundabout

We drove to Goulburn yesterday. We left Canberra just before 10am. Approached Lake George at exactly the right time. I've never seen it look so beautiful. The water glittered in the sunlight. It was absolutely stunning. We were both struck by how we had never seen it look so jewel-like, not once in all the years we had travelled this road. Of course, on the trip home, it was just Lake George again. Always appreciated but nothing like the gorgeousness that we had encountered on the way th…

Long; central Massachusetts colonial history
Today on a whim I visited a site in Massachusetts marked as "Huguenot Fort Ruins" on OpenStreetMaps. I drove out with my 4-year-old through increasingly rural central Massachusetts forests & fields to end up on a narrow street near the top of a hill beside a small field. The neighboring houses had huge lawns, some with tractors.
Appropriately for this day and this moment in history, the history of the site turns out to be a microcosm of America. Across the field beyond a cross-shaped stone memorial stood an info board with a few diagrams and some text. The text of the main sign (including typos/misspellings) read:
"""
Town Is Formed
Early in the 1680's, interest began to generate to develop a town in the area west of Natick in the south central part of the Commonwealth that would be suitable for a settlement. A Mr. Hugh Campbell, a Scotch merchant of Boston petitioned the court for land for a colony. At about the same time, Joseph Dudley and William Stoughton also were desirous of obtaining land for a settlement. A claim was made for all lands west of the Blackstone River to the southern land of Massachusetts to a point northerly of the Springfield Road then running southwesterly until it joined the southern line of Massachusetts.
Associated with Dudley and Stoughton was Robert Thompson of London, England, Dr. Daniel Cox and John Blackwell, both of London and Thomas Freak of Hannington, Wiltshire, as proprietors. A stipulation in the acquisition of this land being that within four years thirty families and an orthodox minister settle in the area. An extension of this stipulation was granted at the end of the four years when no group large enough seemed to be willing to take up the opportunity.
In 1686, Robert Thompson met Gabriel Bernor and learned that he was seeking an area where his countrymen, who had fled their native France because of the Edict of Nantes, were desirous of a place to live. Their main concern was to settle in a place that would allow them freedom of worship. New Oxford, as it was the so-named, at that time included the larger part of Charlton, one-fourth of Auburn, one-fifth of Dudley and several square miles of the northeast portion of Southbridge as well as the easterly ares now known as Webster.
Joseph Dudley's assessment that the area was capable of a good settlement probably was based on the idea of the meadows already established along with the plains, ponds, brooks and rivers. Meadows were a necessity as they provided hay for animal feed and other uses by the settlers. The French River tributary books and streams provided a good source for fishing and hunting. There were open areas on the plains as customarily in November of each year, the Indians burnt over areas to keep them free of underwood and brush. It appeared then that this area was ready for settling.
The first seventy-five years of the settling of the Town of Oxford originally known as Manchaug, embraced three different cultures. The Indians were known to be here about 1656 when the Missionary, John Eliott and his partner Daniel Gookin visited in the praying towns. Thirty years later, in 1686, the Huguenots walked here from Boston under the guidance of their leader Isaac Bertrand DuTuffeau. The Huguenot's that arrived were not peasants, but were acknowledged to be the best Agriculturist, Wine Growers, Merchant's, and Manufacter's in France. There were 30 families consisting of 52 people. At the time of their first departure (10 years), due to Indian insurrection, there were 80 people in the group, and near their Meetinghouse/Church was a Cemetery that held 20 bodies. In 1699, 8 to 10 familie's made a second attempt to re-settle, failing after only four years, with the village being completely abandoned in 1704.
The English colonist made their way here in 1713 and established what has become a permanent settlement.
"""
All that was left of the fort was a crumbling stone wall that would have been the base of a higher wooden wall according to a picture of a model (I didn't think to get a shot of that myself). Only trees and brush remain where the multi-story main wooden building was.
This story has so many echoes in the present:
- The rich colonialists from Boston & London agree to settle the land, buying/taking land "rights" from the colonial British court that claimed jurisdiction without actually having control of the land. Whether the sponsors ever actually visited the land themselves I don't know. They surely profited somehow, whether from selling on the land rights later or collecting taxes/rent or whatever, by they needed poor laborers to actually do the work of developing the land (& driving out the original inhabitants, who had no say in the machinations of the Boston court).
- The land deal was on condition that there capital-holders who stood to profit would find settlers to actually do the work of colonizing. The British crown wanted more territory to be controlled in practice not just in theory, but they weren't going to be the ones to do the hard work.
- The capital-holders actually failed to find enough poor suckers to do their dirty work for 4 years, until the Huguenots, fleeing religious persecution in France, were desperate enough to accept their terms.
- Of course, the land was only so ripe for settlement because of careful tending over centuries by the natives who were eventually driven off, and whose land management practices are abandoned today. Given the mention of praying towns (& dates), this was after King Phillip's war, which resulted in at least some forced resettlement of native tribes around the area, but the descendants of those "Indians" mentioned in this sign are still around. For example, this is the site of one local band of Nipmuck, whose namesake lake is about 5 miles south of the fort site: #LandBack.

Glad that someone informed me that my side project https://busrouter.sg is featured on CNA Insider's Singapore Hour "The Unseen Side of Singapore’s Bus System", under the chapter "Woodlands Bus Depot: The Eyes and Ears of Singapore’s Bus System" (04:08)

NFL jersey numbers on track to be retired: Which current stars are set to be honored down the road?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-jer

#silentSunday #RockyMountainNationalPark
View from Many Parks Curve. October 2016

The latest post by @… reminded me of our EV car hire in Wales back in 2023… it’s quite the story!
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2023/06/05/the…

The Electric Vehicle Road Trip
Electric Vehicles are great! Except when you need to charge them...

Signs on Capital Crescent Trail next to Kenwood. (Neighborhood that led successful fight to partially reverse road diet on Little Falls Parkway, road where prior to road diet cyclists & pedestrians crossing on trail were repeatedly hit, one killed, by drivers.)

Using Continual Learning for Real-Time Detection of Vulnerable Road Users in Complex Traffic Scenarios
Faryal Aurooj Nasir, Salman Liaquat, Nor Muzlifah Mahyuddin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11046

Using Continual Learning for Real-Time Detection of Vulnerable Road Users in Complex Traffic Scenarios
Pedestrians and bicyclists are among the vulnerable road users (VRUs) that are inherently exposed to intricate traffic scenarios, which puts them at increased risk of sustaining injuries or facing fatal outcomes. This study presents an intelligent adaptive system that uses the YOLOv8-Dynamic (YOLOv8-D) algorithm that detects vulnerable road users and adapts in real time to prevent accidents before they occur. We select YOLOv8x as the detector by comparing it with other state-of-the-art object d…

An interview with Craig Federighi on the new multitasking UI in iPadOS 26, problems with Stage Manager, and why the iPad's Mac-style multitasking took so long (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0

Apple’s Craig Federighi on the long road to the iPad’s Mac-like multitasking
Federighi talks to Ars about why the iPad’s Mac-style multitasking took so long.

It is fascinating how the electrification of public transport buses is also creating new business and collaboration models: First Bus already opens its depots during the day (when the buses are in service) to pre-approved parties, such as fleets of buses and trucks, and is now also launching #EV charging hubs for everyone (9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.), as “First Charge”, as in Glasgow (34 x 150 kW).

Even happy mousehunters want #safestreets everyday, not just #caturday

Even happy mousehunters want #safestreets everyday, not just #caturday

Life on Different Paths 🚶🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️
生活诸多路径 🚶🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️FOMAPAN Action 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Back from a #cycling loop around the #ammersee !
Unfortunately I forgot to turn on my cycling computer for the first half hour 🥴 Yeah well, the red frame around the statistics page was quite clear but .. well.
Anyways! It was a nice ~50km loop with excellent weather (prepared with a lo…

More Masana slides about the geography and road network of relevance for the 2026 Total #SolarEclipse - beware of shadows and traffic. 11/n

Three New Frog Species Discovered as Scientists Trek to Remote Peaks in the Andes Where No Roads Go https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/three-new-frog-species-discovered-as-scientists-trek-to-remote-peaks-in-the-andes/

Three New Frog Species Discovered as Scientists Trek to Remote Peaks in the Andes Where No Roads Go
Three new types of frogs were discovered during off-road scientific expeditions in the remote cloud-shrouded peaks of the Andes.

I’m so proud of my little brother.
I just spoke to him in his dorm room at a top 30 college here in the US, he just arrived for freshman orientation.
He got in on a full ride - tuition, housing, food, books, travel, stipend for daily expenses. Won a competitive scholarship to do so.
More than that, he’s had a tougher road than most to get there:
- he had to suddenly move away from Manila, Philippines (where he grew up) in middle school because of COVID restrictions that didn’t let kids go outside (2020)
- then, just as he adjusted to school and a different language in our home country, Ukraine, Russia invaded (2022)
- he stayed in Greece for a month while I was calling our congressional representative here in NY and negotiating with the US embassy to get them a visa ASAP to enter the US and be with me and my husband. There were no paths for Ukrainian refugees yet, we just wanted them with us temporarily for a few months to figure out what options they even had next.
- he had to wait, not going to school, with no clue where they’d move next, until TPS became available to Ukrainians and they got to stay here in the US
- then he had to continue high school in yet another system, yet another country, amidst news of bombings and destruction back home
- my mother wasn’t allowed to work for months while their documents were pending, so we had to raise money with a public GoFundMe campaign and my husband and I maxed out our credit cards to help them get by
- they shared a one-room cottage for the first year, graciously hosted for free by an elderly local couple
- he saw a therapist who also graciously took him in for free while they didn’t have insurance
- he had to graduate high school amidst news of other immigrant students getting arrested, detained, and deported at their own graduations around the country
- he wasn’t sure if he would even make it to college as this administration publicly considered canceling TPS for Ukrainians and cutting off their pathway to maintaining legal status.
We don’t know what tomorrow holds. But he’s there. He’s on campus. He got to go to college.
I love him so much.

Data-Driven Safety Certificates of Infinite Networks with Unknown Models and Interconnection Topologies
Mahdieh Zaker, Amy Nejati, Abolfazl Lavaei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10979

Data-Driven Safety Certificates of Infinite Networks with Unknown Models and Interconnection Topologies
Infinite networks are complex interconnected systems comprising a countably infinite number of subsystems, where counting them precisely poses a significant challenge due to the seemingly endless interconnected nature of the network (e.g., counting vehicles on the road). In such scenarios, the presence of infinitely many subsystems within the network renders the existing analysis frameworks tailored for finite networks inapplicable to infinite ones. This paper is concerned with offering a data-…

Circle the Continental Divide, Wyoming

The drive: On the 480-mile loop, join the club of adventurers who have crossed the Continental Divide not once but twice
— at the scenic Togwotee Pass and the point between Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks.
After traversing the natural landmark,
you still have hundreds of miles to explore.
On the Wind River Indian Reservation, cue up the TravelStorys audio tour
and spend a night in a furnished tepee owned and o…

8 scenic road trips to explore America this summer
Volcanoes, lakes and oceans await for those willing to take a scenic U.S. road trip.

Did a trip to admire the ”Prague Semmering” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smíchov–Hostivice_railway_line from the ground, a regional railway line with impressive curved viaducts to manage the height difference up to the hills above Smíchov station and the pla…

Smíchov–Hostivice railway line - Wikipedia

Be Kind
Human kindness is amazing!
#kindness

Do (Or Don't!) Look Down... into the beautiful valley (Rappenalptal) 😍
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #Video

Because the problem is in the infrastructure, I’d ask my fellow cyclists and urbanists to make sure any fist-shaking about these vehicles is directed toward •improving infrastructure• instead of •policing novel vehicles•.
I can easily imagine a backlash to these vehicles at the city Council meeting turning into rules that make it harder to get better vehicles on the street.
Instead, the reaction I’d like to see to these UPS cargo-bike-adjacent thingers is “Great!! Obviously they’re a problem in these too-narrow bike we’ve stuffed onto road shoulders, so where can we put them?”

Teachers of bachelors lab courses collaborating to promote open inquiry: a case study
Lesley G. A. de Putter, Marloes M. H. G. Hendrickx
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10379 https:/…

Teachers of bachelors lab courses collaborating to promote open inquiry: a case study
A group of university bachelors teachers of open inquiry lab courses in science subjects collaborated in a Networked Faculty Learning Community (NFLC) with the final goal to share their course materials publicly. In this paper we describe their collaborative process, communication on the topic and their road to a common definition of open inquiry as a didactical method. The study emerged organically during the collaboration of this NFLC as the group increasingly recognized the value of document…

What, my family actually expects me to act "normal"? What kind of backwards sorcery is that? I’m an anarchist at heart and a syndicalist by choice, no apologies, no compromises.
https://nsf-iaa.org

chicago_road: Chicago road network
A transportation network of Chicago, USA, from an unknown date (probably late 20th century). Nodes represent intersections or endpoints and edge represent the road connecting these nodes.
This network has 12982 nodes and 39018 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
https://

Finally got to ride a double-decker bus! The people, they look like ants down there. #BusStuff

As I rode my motorcycle down Bender Road yesterday, I saw a heck of a lot of piles of basement refuse. I know that the whole area is in a floodplain. They must have gotten hit pretty hard.
#Glendale #Milwaukee

When I'm on the road and set up Airplay from my Mac on the random “smart” TV in the hotel/Airbnb/etc, about half the time my browsers lose the ability to play video. Searching the Internet turns up many similar problems, but not this one. Happens all the time. This just a well-known fail?
#MacOS #airplay

A review of perfect quantum state transfer, from one to two and three dimensional arrays of qubits
Marzieh Asoudeh, Vahid Karimipour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11016

A review of perfect quantum state transfer, from one to two and three dimensional arrays of qubits
In the light of recent advances in fabricating single layer quantum chips and a possible road toward development of multi-layer quantum chips, we review, in a detailed way, the subject of quantum state transfer with particular emphasis on perfect quantum state transfer in two and three dimensional lattices. We show how one can route an unknown quantum state from one node in a single layer of a quantum chip to another one on another layer with unit fidelity. Our method of presentation in this …

Atkinson Hall is another new building opening across Tower Road from the soccer field
#cornell #photography #photo

Using Language and Road Manuals to Inform Map Reconstruction for Autonomous Driving
Akshar Tumu, Henrik I. Christensen, Marcell Vazquez-Chanlatte, Chikao Tsuchiya, Dhaval Bhanderi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10317

Using Language and Road Manuals to Inform Map Reconstruction for Autonomous Driving
Lane-topology prediction is a critical component of safe and reliable autonomous navigation. An accurate understanding of the road environment aids this task. We observe that this information often follows conventions encoded in natural language, through design codes that reflect the road structure and road names that capture the road functionality. We augment this information in a lightweight manner to SMERF, a map-prior-based online lane-topology prediction model, by combining structured road…

Finally some positive dash cam videos
Dash Cam Owners Australia - Good deeds on the road 2
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-W0MtV3aBmU&si=TjeDFmFJcib0mANZ

Real-World Deployment of a Lane Change Prediction Architecture Based on Knowledge Graph Embeddings and Bayesian Inference
M. Manzour, Catherine M. Elias, Omar M. Shehata, R. Izquierdo, M. A. Sotelo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11925

Real-World Deployment of a Lane Change Prediction Architecture Based on Knowledge Graph Embeddings and Bayesian Inference
Research on lane change prediction has gained a lot of momentum in the last couple of years. However, most research is confined to simulation or results obtained from datasets, leaving a gap between algorithmic advances and on-road deployment. This work closes that gap by demonstrating, on real hardware, a lane-change prediction system based on Knowledge Graph Embeddings (KGEs) and Bayesian inference. Moreover, the ego-vehicle employs a longitudinal braking action to ensure the safety of both i…

Safety Perspective on Assisted Lane Changes: Insights from Open-Road, Live-Traffic Experiments
Konstantinos Mattas, Sandor Vass, Gergely Zachar, Junyi Ji, Derek Gloudemans, Davide Maggi, Akos Kriston, Mohamed Brahmi, Maria Christina Galassi, Daniel B Work, Biagio Ciuffo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09233…

Safety Perspective on Assisted Lane Changes: Insights from Open-Road, Live-Traffic Experiments
This study investigates the assisted lane change functionality of five different vehicles equipped with advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). The goal is to examine novel, under-researched features of commercially available ADAS technologies. The experimental campaign, conducted in the I-24 highway near Nashville, TN, US, collected data on the kinematics and safety margins of assisted lane changes in real-world conditions. The results show that the kinematics of assisted lane changes are c…

Risk-based framework to determine climate-informed design storms for road drainage infrastructure
Mohammad Fereshtehpour, Rashid Bashir, Neil F. Tandon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10183

Risk-based framework to determine climate-informed design storms for road drainage infrastructure
Climate change is amplifying extreme precipitation events in many regions and imposes substantial challenges for the resilience of road drainage infrastructure. Conventional design storm methodologies, which rely on historical trends of rainfall data under a stationarity assumption, may not adequately account for future climate variability. This study introduces a risk-based framework for determining climate-informed design storms tailored to road drainage systems. The proposed framework integr…

Driving in the rain

Of course it is not all roses and sunshine. To name a few things:
- wifi is a glorious pain in the butt on my particular hw. For shits and giggles I did a Trixie install last night and everything worked ootb. And yes, I've scoured all forums, got it working, but only so so
- of course applications: my Filen and Joplin applications need further investigation; for the true road warrior experience they need to work
The good thing: I like a challenge and in general the KDE exp…

Since @… mentioned big printers, it reminded me to post this I'd spotted - temporary road signs for a concert which are just printed on big plastic sheets and stuck to the yellow/orange metal.

Adopting Road-Weather Open Data in Route Recommendation Engine
Henna Tammia, Benjamin K\"am\"a, Ella Peltonen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07881 https://

Adopting Road-Weather Open Data in Route Recommendation Engine
Digitraffic, Finland's open road data interface, provides access to nationwide road sensors with more than 2,300 real-time attributes from 1,814 stations. However, efficiently utilizing such a versatile data API for a practical application requires a deeper understanding of the data qualities, preprocessing phases, and machine learning tools. This paper discusses the challenges of large-scale road weather and traffic data. We go through the road-weather-related attributes from DigiTraffic as a …

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I've made Near Miss of the Day on @…
I can honestly say that this is nothing that I have ever aspired to!
https://road.cc/content/news/near-miss

driving through a forest in a national park with no service and I get this. what sorta black mirror shit is going on here. I’m gonna go down gosner and a demon is gonna get me

"The rollout of driverless vehicles must not be an excuse to further diminish the role of the pedestrian in urban life."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/12/driverless-cars-pedestrians-second-class…

New Hairball fact sheet just dropped! Coming this year:
- 2-way protected bikeway from Marin to Jerrold (instead of path on sidewalk)
- Raised crosswalk and speed cushion approaching off-ramp crossing
- Road diet on Cesar Chavez under 101
https://www.sfmta.com/media/43046/download

Buccaneers reveal throwback uniforms for 2025-26 season https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45746483/tampa-bay-buccaneers-throwback-uniforms-creamsicle

A quick "hello" from our cycling loop before it's getting too hot. Now, relax and maybe doing photos and videos later...
Enjoy your Sunday!
#cycling #mountainbiking #mtb

Almost 40 years ago. Was cleaning up a messy desk, found an old photo album. Pretty glad I took and saved these photos. I was still floundering in gradual school, not yet engaged, and in the evening I would ride my bike uphill (Quimby Road, 9% average grade for about 2000 feet of elevation) so as to improve my mood and my knees. Earlier that day I had stepped out the back door of work (IBM SJRL in the old triangle building) and the whole sky was full of smoke.

TIFF Pulls Invite For October 7th Documentary 'The Road Between Us'; Filmmakers Say Fest Has "Censored Its Own Programming" (Anthony D'Alessandro/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/08/tiff-pulls-october-7-documentary-from-lineup-1236484968/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250813/p100#a250813p100

Embedded Acoustic Intelligence for Automotive Systems
Renjith Rajagopal, Peter Winzell, Sladjana Strbac, Konstantin Lindstr\"om, Petter H\"orling, Faisal Kohestani, Niloofar Mehrzad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11071

Embedded Acoustic Intelligence for Automotive Systems
Transforming sound insights into actionable streams of data, this abstract leverages findings from degree thesis research to enhance automotive system intelligence, enabling us to address road type [1].By extracting and interpreting acoustic signatures from microphones installed within the wheelbase of a car, we focus on classifying road type.Utilizing deep neural networks and feature extraction powered by pre-trained models from the Open AI ecosystem (via Hugging Face [2]), our approach enable…

AU ASPI
23 May 2025
Building national preparedness: A road map for Australia and what we should learn from Finland
Author: Marc Ablong PSM
site: https://www.aspi.org.au/report/building-national-prepar…

ChatGPT on the Road: Leveraging Large Language Model-Powered In-vehicle Conversational Agents for Safer and More Enjoyable Driving Experience
Yeana Lee Bond (Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA), Mungyeong Choe (Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA), Baker Kasim Hasan (Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA), Arsh Siddiqui (Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA), Myounghoon Jeon (Com…

ChatGPT on the Road: Leveraging Large Language Model-Powered In-vehicle Conversational Agents for Safer and More Enjoyable Driving Experience
Studies on in-vehicle conversational agents have traditionally relied on pre-scripted prompts or limited voice commands, constraining natural driver-agent interaction. To resolve this issue, the present study explored the potential of a ChatGPT-based in-vehicle agent capable of carrying continuous, multi-turn dialogues. Forty drivers participated in our experiment using a motion-based driving simulator, comparing three conditions (No agent, Pre-scripted agent, and ChatGPT-based agent) as a with…

Automotive Radar Online Channel Imbalance Estimation via NLMS
Esmaeil Kavousi Ghafi, Oliver Lang, Matthias Wagner, Alexander Melzer, Mario Huemer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10841 …

Automotive Radar Online Channel Imbalance Estimation via NLMS
Automotive radars are one of the essential enablers of advanced driver assistance systems (ADASs). Continuous monitoring of the functional safety and reliability of automotive radars is a crucial requirement to prevent accidents and increase road safety. One of the most critical aspects to monitor in this context is radar channel imbalances, as they are a key parameter regarding the reliability of the radar. These imbalances may originate from several parameter variations or hardware fatigues, …

I've watched this mind-melting set from #BlackCountryNewRoad three times now and I don't understand how it gets ever more beautiful each time.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

Glastonbury - Black Country, New Road
Beautiful, complex fusions of indie-folk and prog-rock from the Cambridge six-piece.

Current Situation:
The Gifford Fire moderated today
but continues to burn in the rugged Garcia Wilderness,
advancing toward the Huasna Valley and the community of Pozo.
This steep, inaccessible terrain has no recorded fire history,
making containment challenging.
Crews are strengthening control lines along Avenales Ranch Road, the Salinas River bed, Hi Mountain Road, Caldwell Trout Creek, and the Huasna River.
These efforts will continue tonight.

Watch Duty - Wildfire Maps & Alerts
Real-time information about wildfire and firefighting efforts nearby

I think somebody spray-painted this Allium flower I caught in Minns Garden looking across Tower Road towards the Biotech building
#flower #bloomscrolling #ithaca

Well, the good news is that it’s over. Run/walk staying in HR zone 2 and I think I was walking more than running. My fitness is 💩 right now. The humidity about killed me, even at 0730. I should have gone out earlier.
I’m at my in-laws place in Tennessee for the holiday weekend, of which this beautiful neighborhood has so few mature trees. As such, the sun gleefully poured out its angry menace upon me the entire time and I suffered. I am meant for cold weather.

Effect of the Gotthard Base Tunnel:
👉 a modest but statistically significant decline in the number of cars 🚗
👉 a substantial induced rail demand effect resulting from the travel time savings 🚅
Conclusion by the authors:
on such touristic routes, road and rail transport are not perfect substitutes
My personal conclusion:
👉 Modal shift needs push & pull measures
👉 Without other measures (pricing, reduced capacity, slowing), adding capacity only increas…

The Effect of the Gotthard Base Tunnel on Road Traffic: A Synthetic Control Approach
The opening of the Gotthard Base Tunnel in 2017, the longest railway tunnel in the world, marked a milestone in Swiss transport policy. The tunnel, a part of the New Rail Link through the Alps, serves as a key instrument of the so-called "modal shift policy," which aims to transfer transalpine freight traffic from road to rail. The reduction in travel time by train between northern and southern Switzerland raised expectations that a substantial share of tourist-oriented passenger traffic would …

A Multi-scale Perimeter Control and Route Guidance System for Large-scale Road Networks
Xianyue Peng, Hao Wang, Shenyang Chen, H. Michael Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08617 …

A Multi-scale Perimeter Control and Route Guidance System for Large-scale Road Networks
Perimeter control and route guidance are effective ways to reduce traffic congestion and improve traffic efficiency by controlling the spatial and temporal traffic distribution on the network. This paper presents a multi-scale joint perimeter control and route guidance (MSJC) framework for controlling traffic in large-scale networks. The network is first partitioned into several subnetworks (regions) with traffic in each region governed by its macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD), which forms …

I think Harley is going to miss her large play area - which is a few acres, including our neighbour's yard where her buddy lives - and her front porch where she can keep watch while sunning herself. She is well trained to never approach the road out front, and we've never needed a fence. I think more walks are in our future, which is a good thing.
#DogsOfMastadon #Moving

So apparently a very successful, popular entertainer has announced a new thing and it’s somehow going to be pumpkin-related, as in orange. I’m mildly bummed about this only because my car is orange. I like my orange car. It’s easy to see in parking lots, for instance. It stands out amongst all the white and silver and ugly gray cars on the road. But now, against my will, I’ll be assumed to be a fan of this person. I’m not not a fan, but still.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Santigold:
🎵 Run the Road
#Santigold
https://epileptics.bandcamp.com/track/run-the-road-epileptics-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/43kUtI55YuzmKZ6BBQLd4F

Urban Composition 🫟
都市构图 🫟
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Graffitti along the road downhill from Bertinoro castle taken while coming back from the daily morning run. Love & passion ;-)
#isws2025 #running #summerschool

On the new BC Ferries being built in China.
Do we all remember the last time the BC NDP went down the road of “building a shipbuilding industry to build ferries”?
It has its own Wiki, of course.
"In addition to major delays and cost overruns, the ferries never fully met their original specifications, and only operated briefly in a reduced capacity, before being auctioned off at a substantial loss by the subsequently elected BC Liberal Party government.”
No, I'm not thrilled that China, an authoritarian state, is going to be building these ferries. But no BC or Canadian firms bid on the contract. And right now, the expertise in ship building is in China and Europe (the Island and Salish class vessels were built in Europe).
I don't blame the NDP for not repeating the same mistake 30 years later.
And the ferries will still be refit and maintained for their full service life within BC.
#BCPoli #BCNDP #FastFerry #Shipbuilding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_ferry_scandal

What Demands Attention in Urban Street Scenes? From Scene Understanding towards Road Safety: A Survey of Vision-driven Datasets and Studies
Yaoqi Huang, Julie Stephany Berrio, Mao Shan, Stewart Worrall
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06513

What Demands Attention in Urban Street Scenes? From Scene Understanding towards Road Safety: A Survey of Vision-driven Datasets and Studies
Advances in vision-based sensors and computer vision algorithms have significantly improved the analysis and understanding of traffic scenarios. To facilitate the use of these improvements for road safety, this survey systematically categorizes the critical elements that demand attention in traffic scenarios and comprehensively analyzes available vision-driven tasks and datasets. Compared to existing surveys that focus on isolated domains, our taxonomy categorizes attention-worthy traffic entit…

The vocal right-wing critics are largely denying the impact of fossil fuels on emissions, and therefore on the future prospects for humanity, but the net zero lobby is pursuing strategies that are inadequate and simplistic. If we truly want net zero, then the only way forward is down, with far less overall energy use and less complex technology.
Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis

Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis
The road towards a viable net-zero world is long and full of obstacles, but all economies need to reduce their carbon footprint

Okay, I tried not to make it overly complex. Just a very brief cut and some music.
Here's the clip of today's walk 🙂
https://video.franzgraf.de/w/vaEHJN15GYZ7BUtgVaT81m
(powered by my own Peertube instance :))

Urban Solitude V 🈳
城市孤独 V 🈳
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us_roads: United States roads (2000)
The road networks of the 50 US States and the District of Columbia based on UA Census 2000 TIGER/Line Files. Edges are stretches of road and vertices are intersections of roads. The data sets were assembled by Dominik Schultes. The 'merged' network contains all the states merged together.
This network has 540981 nodes and 664215 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

Verti-Arena: A Controllable and Standardized Indoor Testbed for Multi-Terrain Off-Road Autonomy
Haiyue Chen, Aniket Datar, Tong Xu, Francesco Cancelliere, Harsh Rangwala, Madhan Balaji Rao, Daeun Song, David Eichinger, Xuesu Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08226

Verti-Arena: A Controllable and Standardized Indoor Testbed for Multi-Terrain Off-Road Autonomy
Off-road navigation is an important capability for mobile robots deployed in environments that are inaccessible or dangerous to humans, such as disaster response or planetary exploration. Progress is limited due to the lack of a controllable and standardized real-world testbed for systematic data collection and validation. To fill this gap, we introduce Verti-Arena, a reconfigurable indoor facility designed specifically for off-road autonomy. By providing a repeatable benchmark environment, Ver…

Cycling in Ribble Valley
#Cycle routes
The Ribble Valley has miles of scenic country roads of which many are ideal for riding your bicycle. To the right are some downloadable maps and leaflets detailing these routes.​​​​
You can download several other routes across not only the Ribble Valley but Lancashire as a whole by visiting Lancashire County Council's dedicated

Does anybody else have family members who don't know the difference between your bicycle and your car? I had somebody ask me yesterday if my car is capable of carrying 225 lb of cargo in it. Previously, I was asked if it was legal to drive a 4-door hatchback on the road and urged to only drive it in bicycle lanes? 🤨

The rise of China, along with regional powers such as Turkey, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia, has disrupted the unipolar dominance of the U.S.
These would-be regional hegemons bring with them their own means of imposing influence through economic incentives and coercion.
In China’s case, infrastructure and trade development through the Belt and Road Initiative is counterbalanced with shows of military strength in the South China Sea.
As the global order becomes increasingly fragm…

Are hegemonies a relic of the past? The role of coercion and consent in global domination
From Athens to the British Empire and on to the US – dominant powers have used might and consent to exert influence.

3GPP NR V2X Mode 2d: Analysis of Distributed Scheduling for Groupcast using ns-3 5G LENA Simulator
Thomas Fehrenbach, Luis Omar Ortiz Abrego, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Schierl, J\"org Ott
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09708

3GPP NR V2X Mode 2d: Analysis of Distributed Scheduling for Groupcast using ns-3 5G LENA Simulator
Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication is a key technology for enabling intelligent transportation systems (ITS) that can improve road safety, traffic efficiency, and environmental sustainability. Among the various V2X applications, platooning is one of the most promising ones, as it allows a group of vehicles to travel closely together at high speeds, reducing fuel consumption and emissions. However, it poses significant challenges for wireless communication, such as high reliability and lo…

Jakorian Bennett took an improbable road to the Eagles; now he gets another opportunity to overcome adversity

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jakoria…

This 👇 👇 👇
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/12/driverless-cars-pedestrians-second-class-citizens?CMP=share_btn_url

This 👇 👇 👇
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/12/driverless-cars-pedestrians-second-class-citizens?CMP=share_btn_url

I’m not at work today but we lost our Internet connection due to the rain and flooding. We also lost some road. 🙄

I just checked the files from our vacation recently. One day we just did a short cycling loop in the neighbourhood.
Actually - nothing really exciting for us. But after a while I thought about all you, international friends here. And I assumed that most of you have probably no clue about my direct neighbourhood and the villages around.
So enjoy a short video:

us_roads: United States roads (2000)
The road networks of the 50 US States and the District of Columbia based on UA Census 2000 TIGER/Line Files. Edges are stretches of road and vertices are intersections of roads. The data sets were assembled by Dominik Schultes. The 'merged' network contains all the states merged together.
This network has 463652 nodes and 553599 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

Urban Snaps 📸
城市抓拍 📸
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I didn't want to let the day go without posting a photo ;-) So I just grabbed one from last year when we visited #vienna in autumn.
A bit of context can be found on the blog: https://www.

Raining Symphony 🎷
雨奏鸣曲 🎷
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us_roads: United States roads (2000)
The road networks of the 50 US States and the District of Columbia based on UA Census 2000 TIGER/Line Files. Edges are stretches of road and vertices are intersections of roads. The data sets were assembled by Dominik Schultes. The 'merged' network contains all the states merged together.
This network has 467967 nodes and 525995 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

'Fahrrad' #FotoVorschlag "Bicycle"
Ahh that motto immediately reminded me of our bike&hike to the Schachen above #GarmischPartenkirchen in 2021.
We were pretty done when we reached our destination but it was a great ride. It would be so cool if I…

The best microcontroller thing I did last year was build this little kit that fits in a 3D printed rugged box and covers close to 90% of things I need to deal with for the products I sell & support.
I can easily throw it in my bag when I'm on the road, otherwise it sits on my desk where I can quickly grab it to test something.
#maker

Natura Urbana XIII 🏡
城市自然 XIII 🏡
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chicago_road: Chicago road network
A transportation network of Chicago, USA, from an unknown date (probably late 20th century). Nodes represent intersections or endpoints and edge represent the road connecting these nodes.
This network has 12982 nodes and 39018 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
https://

Urban Solitude 🈳
城市孤独 🈳
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chicago_road: Chicago road network
A transportation network of Chicago, USA, from an unknown date (probably late 20th century). Nodes represent intersections or endpoints and edge represent the road connecting these nodes.
This network has 12982 nodes and 39018 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
https://