If you ever have to outrun the police in a vehicle chase, forget about using a car, or motorcycle or scooter. Use a bicycle, as this suspect somewhere in America did. It looks like he made it, too.
January 18, 2016
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If you ever have to outrun the police in a vehicle chase, forget about using a car, or motorcycle or scooter. Use a bicycle, as this suspect somewhere in America did. It looks like he made it, too.
Sandvik’s DT1131i three-boom, electro-hydraulic jumbo, iSURE tunnel management software and the latest drill bit hardware were recently put to the test in Iceland and Norway*
Czech contractor Metrostav recently achieved 105m of tunnel excavation in a record-breaking six days. But it will be consistent performance and progress that will see Iceland’s Dyrafjordurgong Tunnel in the remote Westfjords region open on time and on budget.
The 5.3km Dyrafjordurgong Tunnel is costing around €69 million and due
The digital worksite topped the agenda at this year’s CECE congress. David Arminas reports from the Czech capital Prague*
Europe’s equipment manufacturers and their clients are truly in an age of transformation driven by an increasing move towards the digital worksite.
Because this transformation is so deep, there looms big challenges for the entire sector and its supply chain, noted Bernd Holz, president of the CECE – Committee for European Construction Equipment, Europe’s umbrella organisation for
US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood yesterday announced the first-ever federally proposed guidelines to encourage automobile manufacturers to limit the distraction risk for in-vehicle electronic devices.
Urban design technologists Umbrellium said that it has created the Smart Crossing, a pedestrian crossing that adjusts its lines and colours according to the situation.
The crossing, a prototype, was developed for UK insurance company Direct Line in response to research which highlighted the dangers for people, cyclists and vehicle drivers at pedestrian crossings. Research by Road Safety Analysis, a designer of highway safety programmes and services, noted that there were more than 29,000 casualties on or n
