Is this the future of transport? Engineers in Paderborn, Germany are working on an automated transport system, that could use existing rail networks (with some modifications) to run individual ‘Railcabs’ that take you to your destination without having to change trains. Likened to the internet, with great numbers of these vehicles moving autonomously along the [...]

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Posted on Sunday 14th January 2007 in Engineering tagged , , , , , with no comments.

With the recent No votes in France and Holand on the European Union, the news headlines are proclaiming these are “Overwhelming”.

In France, 54.68% of voters voted No, with a turnout of 69.34%. Significantly less than half of the population (37.9%) voted No. [Wikipedia]

Later, in the Netherlands, the No vote was 61.6% on a turnout of [...]

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Posted on Thursday 2nd June 2005 in Blog tagged , , , , with no comments.