PORTLAND, OR, United States (UPI) — Oregon is testing the idea of collecting highway funds through a tax on miles driven, rather than gasoline consumed.
Eighty percent of Oregon’s highway money comes from its 24-cents-per-gallon gas tax. If the state promotes reducing gasoline consumption and consumers tend to buy the fuel-efficient vehicles, including hybrids, highway revenues [...]

Technology now helping the blind navigate streets and find restaurants … full article here:
An interesting article a few days ago in a general circulation tech news site brought me back to a memory of some years ago when the GPS system first became fully operational and publicly available. I had a dream, a dream I [...]

More than 200 taxi drivers in Marbella and San Pedro de Alcántara are installing GPS location systems in their taxis, to improve the quality of service offered to customers.
It will cost each of them 2,500 euros, although subsidies may be available from the Junta de Andalucía and the European Union.
The system, which is already working [...]

A TRUCKING company that admitted it placed lives at risk by allowing a fatigued driver to work has been fined $130,000.
The driver, Brett Leo Foster, killed four people when he ploughed into their cars in country Victoria. Foster had smoked marijuana, was fatigued and had been driving for 17 of 24 hours when his truck [...]

PHILADELPHIA - Passengers and other people opposed to a Federal Communications Commission plan to allow the use of cell phones during airline flights now have some fresh data on their side.
A study by Carnegie Mellon University engineers, published this month in technology magazine IEEE Spectrum, found cell phones, laptops and other personal electronic devices can [...]

Father later took cops to boy’s body in remote wetlandMarch 23, 2006
BY JACK KRESNAK
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERNearly one month after their adopted son Ricky disappeared, police secretly placed tracking devices on Lisa and Tim Holland’s vehicles, the lead detective in the case said Wednesday.
Authorities planted the devices Aug. 1 on Tim Holland’s Chevrolet S-10 pickup [...]

JESSICA L De VAULT, Staff Writer
Published March 25, 2006
Imagine several houses are on fire. It started off as a tame residential blaze, but quickly turned into a raging fire that consumed two nearby homes.
There are 20 emergency responders on the scene and each is carrying a badge with a silver button on it. These “Personal [...]