The shortest route for cars may be down your street- February 1, 2008 Nicholas Carr: "Dashboard maps are having some unintended consequences. In many cases, the shortest route between two points turns out to run through once-quiet neighborhoods and formerly out-of-the-way hamlets...a research group in the Netherlands last month issued a report documenting the phenomenon and the resulting risk of accidents. It went so far as to say that satnav systems can turn drivers into child killers"http://urbification.blogspot.com/2008/02/shortest-route-for-cars-may-be-down.html |