... Someone explained to me once that the speed shown by a GPS receiver isn't necessarliy accurate as you may be driving up or down a steep hill - the GPS will show your speed as though you were driving along a flat road Good point. Let's look at the error. On a 1:3 hill (probably the steepest to be encountered), the angle will be arctan(1/3) = 18 degrees. For a hypotenuse of 1 unit (the true distance that the car travels...

... Someone explained to me once that the speed shown by a GPS receiver isn't necessarliy accurate as you may be driving up or down a steep hill - the GPS will show your speed as though you were driving along a flat road Good point. Let's look at the error. On a 1:3 hill (probably the steepest to be encountered), the angle will be arctan(1/3) = 18 degrees. For a hypotenuse of 1 unit (the true distance that the car travels), the...

... of measuring the speed of a vehicle is needed - perhaps some sort of radar signal bounced off the road below the vehicle? Or maybe laser light, using same technology as for laser mice. Or GPS (assuming you can ...up or down a steep hill - the GPS will show your speed as though you were driving along a flat road -- Only some ghastly, dehumanised moron would want to get rid of the Routemaster. Ken Livingstone 2001. PeterT - "...

... condenses out when its compressed for the pipelines. We see the tanker trucks all the time, and that traffic is tearing up the roads build only to haul farm equipment. Part of the surplus plus increased gas taxes will pay for road repairs. But the message is not lost on some of us, that if the Untied States of Denial dissolves, that between the hydro, ...

... "A 15-month-old baby was killed in east London when a car mounted the kerb and hit his pushchair. Finlay Woods was with his mother and grandmother when a Toyota 4X4 crashed in Cavendish Road, Chingford, on Thursday afternoon. The toddler, who lived nearby, was taken to hospital by ambulance but died soon after arriving. A 39-year-old woman arrested at the scene on suspicion of drinking ...

...is a place where pretty much anything you want to do can be done (within theoretical limits)...but, you will be stuck in traffic for at least two hours before you get there. Build a drainage system that can move water off the roads during a storm, stop worshiping the Astros, & move a million or so people out (and not towards Katy...that would be worse) and I'll think of moving back...:) Ken - who now only has to deal with tornados on an ...

Doug wrote: For those who doubt that road building/widening is never ending it is estimated that there are 41 road projects currently in hand in the UK costing 8.12bn but this ...com/view/2008/08/16/Cost_of_Britains_roadbuilding_projects_soars_by_almost_4bn/ http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/roads/introtoroads/roadcongestion/costestimates.pdf -- UK Radical Campaigns www.zing.icom43.net ...

...net> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: For those who doubt that road building/widening is never ending it is estimated that there are 41 road projects currently in hand in the UK Woo. 41 projects... One of those, I ... rebuilding and extending the roundabout above the m'way and building a service area. No extra road, no change in the capacity of the road.

For those who doubt that road building/widening is never ending it is estimated that there are 41 road projects currently in hand in the UK costing 8.12bn but this attempt to ....wn.com/view/2008/08/16/Cost_of_Britains_roadbuilding_projects_soars_by_almost_4bn/ http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/roads/introtoroads/roadcongestion/costestimates.pdf -- UK Radical Campaigns www.zing.icom43.net "The car, ...

... ourselves out of this crisis using the same old map, we can't steer ourselves out of the crisis if the new driver is getting directions from the old driver, and that's what this election is all about." Bull's-eye. Now he needs to make sure the old drivers in his own party don't have their hands on the wheel -- or are the loudest of his backseat drivers -- as the nation navigates this rocky financial road and charts a new direction.