Security
Jan Chipchase discusses single-occupancy vehicles in two (increasingly convergent?) contexts. In Los Angeles, single-occupancy is the norm; you won’t get any weird looks from fellow commuters. In Kabul, Afghanistan—where the occasional suicide bomber prefers to drive alone—security-minded drivers are more likely to give you both weirder looks and a wider berth.
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Philadelphia, the City of Big Brotherly Love? Salient details:
Philadelphia will be getting 250 additional surveillance cameras…
The expansion will cost nearly $10 million
“I envision cameras in just every district of the city down the road,” Gaittens said.
The city has partnered with a private company to install and maintain [...]
In Nick Turse’s “Slum Fights”, Mother Jones covers the future of urban warfare:
Duane Schattle doesn’t mince words. “The cities are the problem,” he says. A retired Marine infantry lieutenant colonel who worked on urban warfare issues at the Pentagon in the late 1990s, he now serves as director of the Joint Urban Operations Office [...]
The New York Police Department is testing cameras that scan the license plates of (mostly) innocent drivers:
The camera is an example of the kind of technology the NYPD hopes to use to create a high-tech security ring around Lower Manhattan, the Daily News reported. City officials pointed out that the camera, also not far from [...]
From NPR:
With Google Earth and GPS, people have grown accustomed to online maps of whatever they’re searching for. But the boom in digital mapping has run into an obstacle. Some government officials are refusing to release electronic maps of what they call “critical infrastructure,” such as water mains and fire hydrants.
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