Archive of month: October 2013

What confusion leads from self driving vehicles and their talking to each other?

This is a light follow-up from my “Do self driving cars make the courier redundant?”  post from January. I’m wondering which first- and second-order effects occur from self-driving cars talking to each other. Let’s assume they can self-drive and self-park and that they have some ability to communicate with each other. Noting their speed and […]

Future Cities Hackathon (@ds_ldn) Oct 2013 on Parking Usage Inefficiencies

On Saturday six of us attended the Future Cities Hackathon organised by Carlos and DataScienceLondon (@ds_ldn). I counted about 100 people in the audience (see lots of photos, original meetup thread), from asking around there seemed to be a very diverse skill set (Python and R as expected, lots of Java/C, Excel and other tools). […]